Members Annoying Twit Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 Just curious here as I own a Pacifica 112v. But I've seen an awful lot of older model Pacificas, including 112s around. One of my local pawn shops has a number of them. And on ebay they sell for quite low prices. Not that I'd buy one, but I'm just curious as to how much guitar for the money people are getting if they buy an old Pacifica for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 They're great, though being a student model, the necks are a bit tiny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 I believe the 112 has been considerably upgraded in recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Annoying Twit Posted March 30, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 I believe the 112 has been considerably upgraded in recent years. Yes, but some of the upgrades, such as the coil tap on the bridge humbucker, wouldn't preclude the earlier 112s from being an excellent first guitar for those on a budget. Though, I think some other parts of the hardware were upgraded as well, e.g. the tuners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 32-20-Blues Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 My first guitar was a 112. Great for the money. Excellent frets. Pickups were fine. Great trem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 112s have always had sealed tuners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted March 30, 2010 Members Share Posted March 30, 2010 I think the pick-ups are now AlNiCo and before were ceramics(?). Pickguard is now the "miniskirt" kind associated with higher Pacificas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Orange Jackson Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 I bought a new Pac112j off Ebay when Bing was up to 15% off just a bit ago. An impulse buy really, I had just sold my So-Cal and had a little play money. First off, I would say that I have an advantage with this guitar as I know how to set a guitar up. I think this guitar is in the hands of newer players quite often and I feel that is why you get comments like, "It's OK for a beginners guitar" or something to that effect. My short answer is that they are nice guitars, excellent bones, and with one or two mods, and a little know how, you will have a very solid and enjoyable guitar. The pickups are the question. The two single coils are good, especially when raised up about an 1/8th of an inch away from the strings. They are not great though. Not Texas blues voiced either, more of a vintage clean. I think they are more versatile this way, so I'm happy about that.I wanted to swap the neck pickup with a Dimarzio Area 59, and did for awhile, but the outside pole pieces on the Dimarzios fell outside of the E strings. This left both of the E strings sounding particularly weak when fretted above the 12th fret. So back in went the stock neck single coil. Again, not a bad pickup, but it could be better, no doubt about it. Middle pickup is more of the same. Good/usable but not in the 'great' ballpark. I don't mind these pickups, but I may well keep on-the-lookout for a higher end neck pup with the right pole spacing. The bridge pickup needs to have the pole pieces raised to match the finger board radius, otherwise it will sound a bit lacking in mid range. Screw heads are very thin, and one striped right off the bat. I ended up just pulling the pickup out and pushing the pole from the bottom to sit higher off the bobbin top. This pickup I also set pretty close to the strings.If you are going to use this humbucker with distortion or overdrive I think you will be pleased. I think it is a pretty nice pickup actually, I'm really surprised by it. They call the guitar the pacifica. I don't know if they tried to get an EVH tone with this pickup or not, but I think it goes along way towards that end. The the 12 inch radius on the neck is really nice.Neck profile is right down the middle, not thick or thin.The fret work is really nice.String spacing I thought might be an issue, but I find the guitar extremely comfortable to play on. Turners are rock solid. It actually holds tune very, very, well with heavy trem use. Very strange, I use the trem pretty much and this thing does not budge. I did add a GFS roller tree and got rid of the vintage style string holder, this is a must do imo, the stock holder creaks big time if you use the trem. Also, the trem block I replaced with a GFS full sized steal block. Direct fit, but for the trem arm hole, which I had to drill out a little on the stock base plate to get the arm to screw in. The finish on mine sucks a little bit. Lots of streaks in it. I should have sent it back, but I liked the guitar right off, so I kept it. I also pulled the middle spring on the trem and have the bridge floating a little (readjusted all the saddles because of this). I could be miss reading it, but I think the guitar sounds more open this way. I don't know why that would be, but it strikes as so. Swimming pool route.Intonation was totally off when new. Between my praise of the Bugera V5, and now the Pac112j, it might well sound like I'm just an over enthusiastic noob. But I have been playing guitar for 18 years. I have had my fair share of guitars, and amps for that matter. For me the Pac112j is simply an enjoyable guitar to play on, I like it quite a bit actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members danswon Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 i just noticed someone in my area selling a Pacifica 012 for next to nothing. i think this is the most busget model they do but i'm planning on modding it. one thing i really want to know is - does it have the 52.5mm import spacing on the bridge screws so i can put in a GFS full-block import trem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Annoying Twit Posted March 31, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 The 012 has an agathis body, versus the alder body on the 112. I've seen older 112s go for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members harold heckuba Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 The 112 is a pro guitar with a beginner price tag. I have had many higher line Yamahas, had a 921 and a 1221 and prefer the 112 to all of them. There is a band called "My Vitriol" or something like that and they played a big festival overseas and the lead guitarist played the show with a 112. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 The 112 is a pro guitar with a beginner price tag. I have had many higher line Yamahas, had a 921 and a 1221 and prefer the 112 to all of them. There is a band called "My Vitriol" or something like that and they played a big festival overseas and the lead guitarist played the show with a 112. Frank gambale was once demonstrating a Roland thingie mounted on no less (or no more should i say) than a 112. Surely he could have mounted it on anything he wanted if he chose to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jumpwin Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 I love my 112s. I bought it on impulse, because it was there and only cost me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KightTemplar Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 The Taiwanese ones are superb axes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cBc Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 i just noticed someone in my area selling a Pacifica 012 for next to nothing. i think this is the most busget model they do but i'm planning on modding it. one thing i really want to know is - does it have the 52.5mm import spacing on the bridge screws so i can put in a GFS full-block import trem? Yes, the GFS trem drops right in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Orange Jackson Posted March 31, 2010 Members Share Posted March 31, 2010 i just noticed someone in my area selling a Pacifica 012 for next to nothing. i think this is the most busget model they do but i'm planning on modding it. one thing i really want to know is - does it have the 52.5mm import spacing on the bridge screws so i can put in a GFS full-block import trem? I can't say for sure, I don't own a 012. But I know the GFS import block will fit onto the 112j stock trem base plate. And you will need to widen the trem arm hole a little to make the arm fit into the block. Stock arm fits the threads on the block though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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