Yamaha Pacifica 102

This is a great looking guitar as it is a close copy of a tele but you can notice a few differences. The Maple neck is easily manouverable and the two humbuckers give a great sound.

This guitar sounds like it should be priced up at a price that only a few people in the world can afford, it holds notes like you would hold a wad of cash you never let go do you?

The pickups on the guitar dont give much variation but beggers cant be choosers. The frets are great for fast playing and again the guitar is showing all the attributes of a hugely priced guitar

This guitar is great for live gigging, the sound is outstanding and you never have to worry about dropping this guitar the strap buttons will hold onto your strap for ever

I have had this guitar for years and it has never let me down once. This is a guitar i would reccomend for someone who is short of money because the low price is decieving with the sound and looks screaming out at you i say get one

Tele shape, natural finish, 22 frets, two humbuckers ...

It's a cheap guitar therefore it can't sound like a custom shop, nevertheless I'm VERY impressed. It has a lovely modern sound,a lot better than anything else on sale for that price.
Something similar to the tone of a certain Tom Morello. Modern sounding but decent quality. It's difficult to make it sound like a Tele or a Strat but it's not supposed to anyway. Great for recent humbucking Rock tones.

Brilliant. I hope all my guitars would be the same.
Nearly flawless.

It looks sturdy enough. Great stuff.

You what??

You can't beat Yamaha guitars of you're in a budget. Simply as that. GET ONE SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This Guitar was made in 94-95 and is a basic tele-style guitar with two humbuckers. It has a maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard and a 25&1/2 scale neck with jumbo frets. Its upper bout extends forward a little more than a standard tele (to the head of the 15th fret) which makes it a very nicely balanced guitar on a strap. It has through body stringing and a set hard-tail strat type of bridge. It is SOLID alder and weighs in at about 10-11 pounds. It also comes stock with Ping tuners.

This guitar was originally purchased with the sole intention of installing a Roland GK-2A synth pickup on it because my cheapest guitar at the time was a 1979 Gibson 347 which I didn't want to drill holes in. I found the body to be unbelievably comfortable and started playing it quite a bit. Here enters my guitar tech. I had the GK-2A surgically implanted in it, EMG pickups installed (60 neck, 85 bridge) with a dual mode switch kit to give them a single coil EQ curve at the flick of a switch, Grover tuners, and the neck (which had a mild V shape) was shaven to the shape of a modern Carvin guitar(thin and flat) and given a tung oil finish. Now before I did all this to it it sounded very good and rich with a sound much like a L-5S (yea I know all they have in common is the neck scale but thats what it sounded like). After all this it is just amazing. I am a professional full time musician and play gigs just about every night with styles including jazz, swing, rockabilly, fusion, club dates, rock, hard rock, reggae, and latin. I do studio work in the day as well as teaching jazz studies and guitar related subjects at the local college. This guitar does everything you could ask it to so now the sound is both great and versitile but hell this $300 guitar got compared to an L-5s beforehand

I never play a guitar before my tech has set it up to my liking however he told me that this cheap guitar had some of the best factory fretwork he had ever seen. The bridge which is the only unmodified part of this guitar is PERFECT!!! It intonates perfectly and is like having the best parts of a tune-o-matic and a strat tremolo combined. The neck joint is so perfect that this guitar far out sustains my Gibsons and my Carvin T60. The body has no countours which is very much to my liking and is the only guitar other than a Steve Morse Music Man to be quite so plank-like. This is good. The finish is unbelievably thick. While this may curtail some of the wood tone I am happy with the tone it gets. Its black and does not show the hell it has been put through.

Hard to say due to the fact I changed everything but if rating it on its finish and its tuning stability it is perfect.

I'm quite sure the warranty is void as I have completely altered this guitar.

I have guitars costing as much as $25,000 and chose to play this thing as my main guitar not because it is cheap and I dont care if it is damaged but because it is my favorite guitar. Even with all of the alterations I have given this guitar it has only cost me about $1150 and with the exception of my Carvin I have never played a guitar that cheap which was a professional quality instrument.