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  1. We have talked on-and-off a bit about Sunn guitars around here over the years, starting back around 2002 or 2003 or so. There were a couple of H-C members in the past that had a Sunn "Mustang" guitar. The Sunn Mustang would sometimes get mentioned if we were talking about FMIC's various fumbles and debacles over the years. In the meantime, enjoy a bit of vintage Sunn 0))) amps and... Colonel Sanders.
  2. The Pacifica with the covered humbucker at the bridge and the P90 at the neck (in that video) is the PAC611VFM. As of a few months ago, the PAC611HFM, PAC611VFM, PAC311H, and the single humbucker'd PAC510V are all supposedly now available in the USA -- not just in Europe and Japan. These were released three years ago, but for some unfathomable reason, the US arm of Yamaha guitars chose not to distribute them in the US. I guess they finally got tired of being bugged by people wanting those models. .
  3. Pacificas with plywood bodies have never existed, and this includes the bottom-end model, the PAC-012. PAC-012: multi-piece agathis body (usually a 5-piece body) PAC-112, PAC-112M, PAC-112J: 3-piece agathis body PAC-112V series: 3-piece alder body PAC-212B series: 3-piece alder body PAC-311H: 3-piece alder body PAC-510V: 3-piece alder body PAC-611 series: 3-piece alder body The various Pacifica USA models: 3-piece alder body The Pacifica was designed about 25 years ago by Yamaha in the USA, in Hollywood to be exact. The goal of the design was to create the most ergonomic and user friendly double cutaway body outline (i.e. -- "Strat") with bevels in just the right places (i.e. -- belly and forearm cuts). The same thing was done for a Tele-like single cutaway body. Unfortunately, the PAC-102 and similar Tele-like series Pacificas are no longer made -- with the exception of the Mike Stern signature model. You're actually describing coil splitting, which is a lot more common and generally more useful than coil tapping. .
  4. The typical white ash that Fender uses is usually denser than swamp ash (a.k.a. -- southern ash or green ash). However, there are also heavy grades of swamp ash -- which cost less because they are less desirable. ​No matter what its weight is, at least so-called swamp ash usually has a nice interesting grainy look about it compared to some white ash.
  5. I'll vote for the Fender Esprit / Fender Robben Ford Signature Model.
  6. Dewar had been bed-ridden for several years from a series of strokes he suffered earlier. He was in poor shape for a long time and required a nurse to be present 24x7 in order to live. He could comprehend people talking to him, but could not communicate back in a normal fashion. In the end, his metabolism finally just gave out and he could not be revived.
  7. The US string manufacturers that I know of are D'Addario, Dean Markley, and Ernie Ball. Fender makes strings in Ensenada, Mexico. Tomastik-Infeld makes strings in Austria and Germany. There are 2 or 3 string manufacturers in China and 1 possibly in Korea and maybe 1 still in Japan. I believe D'Addario makes more strings than anyone else, and is the OEM for several brands -- the same is probably true for Dean Markley. Tomastik-Infeld has been making strings for aeons now.
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