There is also a few somewhat deep pick scratches above the bass side of the strings and some scratches on the side of the body towards the bottom of the guitar. The Made in Japan sticker/label has worn off the back of the headstock and there are a few scratches and finish dings especially on the back of the body. Despite that the guitar still plays and feels great. 011s due to what looks to be the beginning of some minor bridge lifting. We have dated it and narrowed down the place of manufacture to 1972 based on the serial number and the red label/'k' stamp. This is a Red Label Japanese-manufactured Nippon Gakki Yamaha FG-180 in good to very good condition. If you encounter any inaccuracies please email the web master. There is some overlap between formats and in those cases multiple results will be generated. Yamaha serial numbers are recycled every ten years, 29 formats are supported here based on research available on the yamaha website. I did contact Yamaha and they told me that it had to be made between 1966 - 1968 because after that period, Yamaha began using eight characters as serial numbers. The guitar has a six digit number '905854'. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Yamaha FG -180 Acoustic Guitar at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! I have tried all the serial number finders on the web and none of them can tell me in what year my guitar was made. But the 6 & 7 digit numbers (located on the neck block) are just sequential numbers used by all the guitars they built, not just the FG’s.
It’s widely known that the 8 digit serial numbers start with the year as the first number. My latest interest is decoding the mystery of the 6 & 7 digit serial numbers.
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