My first guitar project: Pacifica 012 modding
I picked up guitar with the Pacifica 012 in January and fell in love with it quickly. Since i recently got a lot of time on my hands, i decided to tackle guitar modding for the first time (not really the best thing to do with your only guitar in hindsight, this was anxiety-inducing). It took about a week of planning + getting the components and 3 days of working on my guitar to get to this point.
Here are the mods I went with:
- GUYKER Alnico V hot rail middle pickup
- Wilkinson Alnico V humbucker bridge pickup (i had to sand down the top and bottom edges of the pickup slot)
- Gilmour mod with my push-push volume pot as the toggle
- Bridge humbucker coil split with push-push tone pot
- 470k resistor connected to stock neck single coil’s hot and ground wires to preserve the tone of a single coil with 250k pot (both new pots are 500k)
Overall, im really happy with how it turned out despite how stressful this was. For future mods, ill replace the nut and add locking tuners and maybe replace the trem block, tho im still on the fence about it.
Just wanted to share my work with you guys, as i got a lot of info that helped immensely with this project from this subreddit!
