Yamaha Pacifica

[chronicinsomnia]

This was the first lefty guitar I ever bought it beats hell out of most strats and I love my strat. It is a really solid well intonated guitar and for the money it is tops.

I own 10 guitars including the Yamaha some high-end some not this is a great guitar not an investment but an instrument. I take it to jam with friends as well as gig and I don't hang my head in shame because of it's price tag. I consider myself lucky to have gotten such a decent guitar for peanuts.

As far as workmanship if you pull the pickguard off you will be amazed at how cleanly routed and tidy the electronics are very cool. My USA strat looked like a beginner with a soldering iron went crazy in there.

PeAcE

 

[bongolation]

> It is a really solid well intonated guitar and for the money it is tops.

Where was yours made?

I'm curious as these seem to come from different factories in different countries and I am wondering if this makes much difference.

Seems like it must.

 

[Gidge]

mine was made in Japan....home of the great Squiers......

 

[bongolation]

These are made "either in China or Taiwan."

How a guitar can be made in five different countries and still have any kind of consistency, I can't imagine.

Musician's Friend had fifteen of the rosewood-fingerboard models left this afternoon, and that was it, the end, gone forever.

The local store with them said these were closeouts, too.

I'm going to pass.

 

[Gidge]

you know, ive picked up alot of Mexican Strats in music stores...some sucked, some played as well as American Strats.....

 

[CDT-sHaG]

this one looks pretty kool...

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7...4242328809/search/g=home/detail/base_id/38188

but who's mike stern? im ignorant lol...

 

[bongolation]

Well, I'm kind of averse to these bastardized not-Fender sort-of-lookalike knockoffs, but it looks like a decent enough deal for $200.

I think the nicer Mike Stern model is what the guy in the SNL band seems to be playing.