Yamaha pacifica modified Partscaster

I mentioned back in November that I had completely refurbed my old  Yamaha Pacifica

Here are the Pictures Check out the awesome ash Body I am a lucky boy.
So far I'm happy with it. Although I feel the musicman pickups are a bit clean for my tastes.

As I mentioned in November. Putting a guitar together with Yamaha parts is effortless. I can recommend it.



 

November Update

You may of noticed if you are a regular reader (Do I have any? Still no official followers sniff). That I have changed tho look of the blog. I felt it looked a bit stuffy serious and formal which just isn't me so I have a play around. Please let me know if you like the change.

Today I realised it's going to be difficult to work in my workshop as it was so cold. I have no heating in it though so I'm looking for a cheap mini woodburner. It will make good use of all those offcuts.

On the table at the moment is a First act Sheena which had a seperating fret board, broken machine head and missing bridge. I've repaired the neck and I am just waiting for the bridge to turn up. Typically I have a box of tunomatic bridges but none of them fit. It has slightly bigger post holes and slightly wider spacing. I can't wait to get it finished as I'm quite keen to hear it. They are lovely looking guitars, however, this one is still going to look a bit trashed.

Also on the table and not far off finished is a mocking bird copy, a new 6 string cigar box guitar and a tele-esque guitar Which I am doing a stained glass type montage with pictures of classic 70's Album covers.

Remember my Yamaha Pacifica. Although I had restored it, after a couple of weeks the novelty had worn off and it had been relegated to the back of the guitar rack again. I decided the neck for me had  past it's best. I had a neck from a Yamaha RGX 121z (3 a side) and all the cosmo black hardwear.
one thing that had never occured to me was the fact that my Pacifica 112j has got an ash body yes that's right an ash body. I have not seen another one. I sanded it to get to the bare wood. Given it a dark woodstain. put the 121z neck on and all the black hardwear and it looks so much nicer. and plays a lot better. the newer neck feels a lot more lively.  I still have to tidy it up and I'm going to get a black scratchplate. Once3 that's done I'll get some photo's up.
by the way as testament to Yamaha's build quality the 121z neck fits perfectly the neck holes where spot on although I had already filled them.

My Yamaha Pacifica 112j

This is my Yamaha Pacifica 112 (I think j but not sure.)
I bought this new early 1994. It was my second guitar, my first been some crappy black Les Paul copy that I bought secondhand which I ended up burning.
The Pacifica has been my main guitar since I bought it. For a long time it was my only guitar.
It's had a hard life. It's been gigged and transported with no case at all.  painted on, stickered to death left lying around and generally not been treated with any respect. Up until last year it had become quite unplayable due to fret wear and dodgy control pots and I had replaced it with an Indie Guitar. But I missed it so I decided to restore it.
I  saw a complete electric assembly including G&B pickups from a Sterling (By Musicman) Silo 30 on Ebay for a tenner put a bid in and won them. Bargain considering this is fitted to a £400+ guitar.
I also redressed the frets sanded the paint and removed all the stickers. (The band I was in was a bit punky so stickers on your guitar are a must!) fitted the new pups and controls and wow! It always was a very nice guitar to play but with the better pups it now sounds awsome although I loved the sound  the old pups had real scratchy and shreddy.
It's also common practice to upgrade the tuners However I'm leaving the stock ones on as they are perfectly good. believe me I use the whammy a lot and do a lot of bending so if it's going to go out of tune it will. The Grovers on My Indie don't hold up as well as these.
You can see from the pics that the lacquer has yellowed leaving lighter patches where the stickers and paintings where.

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