My first Yamaha.

[BygDaddy]

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PAC612VIIFM in indigo blue.

I purchased this demo model from Sweetwater. Nice specs.

- grover locking turners
-seymour duncan pickups
-wilkenson trem
-graphtech nut and string trees
-rosewood fingerboard
-alder body

All of this for less than $600. Nice low action. It plays well but haven't fell in love with it yet. Of course I just got it yesterday but I'm usually more excited. Kinda odd what makes you fall in love with an instrument. This is an awesome guitar I hope it grows on me.

My only other electric guitar is my late 90s big apple strat.

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Maybe I'm just a one guitar dude. Ha! Non-sense. I'll just have spend some time with it or return it. Wish me luck.

[LightWingStudios]

YOWZA!

[Milkman]

Wow! That’s a beauty to look at, and I love the feel of them too. The sound is a little meh to me, but that’s probably just the stock pickups and the fact that the only one I have access to is in a house where one spouse thinks it’s unreasonable for me to play through the perfectly good 50W JCM 800 that’s sitting there at the appropriate power tube saturating volume.

[BygDaddy]

Wow! That’s a beauty to look at, and I love the feel of them too. The sound is a little meh to me, but that’s probably just the stock pickups and the fact that the only one I have access to is in a house where one spouse thinks it’s unreasonable for me to play through the perfectly good 50W JCM 800 that’s sitting there at the appropriate power tube saturating volume.

Do you have one of these as well?

[Tonray's Ghost]

I'm not a fan of the accentuated big upper horn....but having said that...everything else is gorgeous !

[Mossman]

Very nice!

I'm going to end up getting a Pacifica one of these days... I like the way they look, and I've always been a big fan of Yamaha gear. You can't go wrong with anything they make... Even at the lowest price points, there's a lot of quality there.

Sometimes a guitar is a sleeper. There's been lots of times that I've owned a guitar or bass that I'm just luke-warm about, and I think about selling it because I'm not all hyped-up excited about owning it, but then one day I pick it up and it sounds magical to me all of a sudden... Or I change the pickups and it's like a whole different guitar. I've never been a big fan of Seymour Duncan pickups, myself... Maybe there's something you'd like better?

[Gear_Junky]

Pacifica 412 was my first good electric guitar back in the 90's. Great value, too. I never did figure out their model numbers, but I think it corresponds to price somehow

[thepezident]

jk...

looks nice

[golem]

The Yamahas are a nice guitar, especially when you get the higher end one. I'm also a fan of the Big Apple series as well.

[Milkman]

[mention]BygDaddy[/mention] , I don’t have one, but my friend does, and I play it often.

[AnotherJim]

Sweet looking guitar and sounds like you got a good deal. Congrats!

[BygDaddy]

It's going back. I really like the neck but that's about it. Got a strat instead.

[Tonray's Ghost]

It's a good deal.. I saw that same exact model in same color selling for $1125 IN Bangkok this, week. Looks pretty hot up close.

[UrenragK]

That looks sweet!

I grabbed a Pacifica at a boot sale, £10, it plays lovely

[Tonray's Ghost]

It's going back. I really like the neck but that's about it. Got a strat instead.

Just curious, what did you not like ?

[BygDaddy]

It's going back. I really like the neck but that's about it. Got a strat instead.

Just curious, what did you not like ?

I didn't care for the pick ups and it wouldn't stay in tune. The nut wasn't cut right and honestly I didn't feel like messing with it. I returned it and got a fender player series strat. Sunburst with a maple feet board.

[littlebadboy]

Nice guitar! Yammies are solid guitars!

I used to have a Pacifica 112v back in the 90's. It served me so many years. I changed the bridge pickup to a SD Distortion gigged with it for years.

[redman]

Fantastic looking guitar I've never had a Yamaha electric but I love my FG-TA acoustic they make a great guitar.

[Mossman]

That looks sweet!

I grabbed a Pacifica at a boot sale, £10, it plays lovely

Did you buy a pair of boots while you were there? They must have been really cheap if they were selling guitars for £10.

[UrenragK]

That looks sweet!

I grabbed a Pacifica at a boot sale, £10, it plays lovely

Did you buy a pair of boots while you were there? They must have been really cheap if they were selling guitars for £10.

Alright, a trunk sale? No, I didn’t buy any second hand budgie smugglers

[golem]

Nice! I see a $400 one our local FB marketplace. I must say it is tempting. I've to say I also really like this demo:

[BygDaddy]

I do think it's a good guitar and great specs but didn't bond with it. I sent it back and bought a mexican strat that I love. Maple neck and tobacco sunburst. Then I bought a Schecter Sun Valley Super Shredder.