r/YamahaPacifica

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!

More pictures!

I’d also like to know, to the people who own a guitar in blue, what strap colours or style would you pair with it? I’m curious to know, for inspiration for myself too 😁!

Thank you to everyone who answers this, and to everyone who answered my previous post!!
Still one of my favorite purchases in my life… hoping to honor this piece of art!

Saw some dimples and observed some low frets in a Pacifica 112V I picked up second-hand, so decided to give it a full fret level. I just do it for myself, using cheap tools (about $70 worth), but it makes the guitars I've done it on play like butter, so it's an hour (or two, if I'm careful, for a nicer guitar) of my time well spent.

The finished result is amazing. Easy to play, an easily achieved low action. Of course, this is hard to photograph, so just putting a photo of the guitar. This is my second-favourite 112V colour!

I cleaned the rusty screws on it already (it lived near the beach). Only other task is to wait for the trem bar to arrive and it'll be good to go.

If you're confident doing setups (neck relief/action), I really encourage you to do this as a next step. If I can, you can. Don't let the internet bully you into paying a luthier $500 or whatever unless you're a professional musician or your instruments are rarities (or you have lots of money and little time, of course!). I've had guitars that I'd have kept if I knew how to do this, because I'm sure I'd have connected with them better if I had set them up.

He was very specific on what he wanted for his birthday. 3 months prior we went to local music stores and browsed electric guitars on display. But out of the displays he kept on looking for a 212 pacifica but always not in stock. (Maybe from countless youtube videos he watched he landed on the pacifica) I was worried about quality because we could not actually see the product, but I went and ordered it online instead. I ordered it with a hardshell case, spark 2 amp with battery and wireless receivers. It got delivered yesterday and it is beautiful. He was really happy he got the model and color he wanted. I'm glad I did not choose to be cheap and just bought the fender squire sets and other brands. It was way off the budget but he's the type that rarely ask for something so I splurged a little bit for him. He's already beyond the skills I taught him (I can only play regular string/nylon guitar with couple songs) and I am hoping that his first electric guitar will push him to even greater heights.

Sorry for the long post.

Just wanted to share.

Proud father? You bet I am.

I’ve wanted to try a Yamaha guitar for a while. I think Pacificas are one of my favorite S-shaped guitars, and I’ve heard nothing but nice things about them. I’ve recently started playing with a band, and wanted another guitar in Eb I can take out and about and not feel too bad if it gets beat up. It’s a power metal band, so I needed a decent humbucker in the bridge and that’s about all that matters. Oh and a hard tail.

So I decided to pick up this 611 for that purpose. The justification to myself is that I don’t have any guitars with P90s, so I figure this kills two birbs with one stone: I can use it for band practice and gigging, but still have a P90 to mess around with on my own.

The build quality is solid, about what I’d expect for a $700 guitar. It’s a very pretty red, and rosewood fretboards are my favorite. Bit of a chunky neck, which I don’t mind. It sounds great, and feels great too. Loving the custom 5, very warm for a bridge pickup but has plenty of punch and aggression… sounds cool through a 5150. And the P90, oh man I think I’m in love, what utterly divine cleans.

Excited to spend more time with this guy in the coming months! I think this guy is gonna be an excellent addition to my gang!

After months of going through an emotional roller coaster of research, hearing terms and lingo I genuinely don't understand, and too much choice paralysis, this beauty reappeared on my algorithm and suddenly everything just clicked. I feel like it might be a relatable story for some other first time Yammy owners, since Fender and Gibson, etc are a much more recognized brand.

I'm very glad I took it slow, for the first time, and not impulsively rush into something. Without doing the hw ahead of time, I wouldn't even know what boxes to check off that mattered to me. Otherwise, I probably would've ended up with a Squire or $1k+ Fender, both of which I felt was not quite what I wanted in a first guitar. Squire being a guitar I'd always end up feeling upgrade-itis to a Fender, and a $1k+ Fender being the "buy once, cry once dream guitar" but not even knowing what a "dream" guitar means to future/ more experienced me a few years down the line.

Picking out my first guitar felt very much like trying to pick out my first puppy.

Any-whoo! Here's some pics, and I think she fits right in her home very much so! And photo of said puppies helping unbox her.

its a wilkinson vs 100n, i put in some gotoh locking tuners earlier this year too. This guitar plays like a dream, Ive been lucky enough to try several great guitars over the years and this is still the best piece I've ever played.

the base is a pacifica 112vm!

What fun things have you done with your Pacifica, customized it, changes it let me know!

My first ever guitar!! Got the Yamaha Pacifica 012, can't wait to learn and play it!!

Hi i recently bought this pacifica 012 used off of amazon but it seems to be in pretty good condition, im completely new to guitar but i do know that the guitar has not been tuned yet and i wanted to ask if i can just tune it and then play or if i should take it to a guitar store to be set up aswell since it isnt new, i did try to watch a few youtube videos on how to set it up but if was a bit confusing. Also, should i buy new strings. I dont have an amp yet but i am buying one soon!

Hi all, was wondering if anyone here has any insight on any sort of a contraption to cover this section of the guitar ? It’s just a cosmetic thing/look honestly, but I’m also thinking it will help with the overall look and prevent dust getting into the humbuker cavity.
I’ve seen a possible cover like this, but has anyone here ever tried it, or maybe even made/fabricated a custom cover ? I’m sorta leaning towards getting something 3D printed, but wondering if anyone has any expertise on this. Thanks.

https://www.solomusicgear.com/product/solo-open-type-4-50mm-humbucker-cover/

It's amazing how much of a difference a new pickguard and some fancy knobs can make!

Used 612viix in mint condition. I couldn't quite connect with any Fender Strat in my price range but knew right away this both sounded great and felt good to play. The color has grown on me, very distinctive.

Really loving this Pacifica! Growing up I mostly played on acoustic, earlier this year I wanted to get into electric guitar and was looking for either a s-style or t-style guitar. I was leaning on a Pacifica if I went s-style or a Fender Player Series if I went t-style. But to my surprise there's a t-style Pacifica which I never knew existed!

Question: Not a 100% sure yet, but in the future I might change pickguards, however I've been searching online and can't seem to find any t-style pickguard that fits with this Pacifica, all the ones I've seen are for the Fender ones. Has anyone found any online?