The Yamaha Image Custom aka Yamaha MSG Custom is a double cut guitar designed by Martyn Booth in the UK. Martyn Booth now makes his own custom guitars. The Yamaha Image was based on the Gibson 335-S, a solid body version of the ES-335. In the UK the name "Image" was already taken so it was called the Yamaha MSG (Martyn's Solid Guitar). It featured a mahogany body with a carved maple top and a set-in mahogany neck. Just like a PRS the scale is 25". The Yamaha Image Custom has a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and two Hybird Integrated Pickup System humbuckers (Yamaha GH-X according to a 1990 Yamaha catalog) which has active/passive options. The vibrato is a Yamaha Vintage Pro which is of a needle-bearing type and also has a thumbwheel, by turning it, a white square bar extends from the bottom of the unit to approximately 8mm. When this rod hits the body, the tremolo arm cannot be pulled up. Other features are:
