Yamaha Guitar Owner's Club

[leynad99]

Hi there!!!
This is my Yamaha Pacifica 1221MS. A rare one i belive??? Bought it some ten years ago. Im aboute to sell it due to lack of time and musical inspiration. There is little information about the 1221MS on the net... Does anyone of you guys have an idee what price i could state?

[Bboy]

Hi, I just bought this classical guitar used and I'm trying to find out some info. on it. I know it is discontinued. It is all solid wood and has a BBand pick-up system.

I would like to know how long it was in production for? What a new one sold for? Just some general info.

If anyone has any info. or a link. I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Bboy

[chubbsdarcy]

FG700S....can't beat her....and I've tried!

[OM 21]

Haven't seen one of these here yet, my 98 AES800. With its 25.5" scale, bolt-on neck and string through, its like a cross between a LP Jr and a Fender.

[DocHelliday]

Okay here she is post bigsby

[brookdalebill]

I have a great early 80's SA2000S. It's like a ES345-355, but with push/push coil taps and a solid spruce top. Tommy Tedesco used to use them. It was a gift from my ladyfriend.

[Fearnot]

This is my '88 Yamaha SA2100... I've had it for ages and except for some very fat-sounding humbuckers that I alternately love or hate, it's a magnificent guitar. (And I don't miss my ES335TD all that much.)

[chezdeluxe]

Originally Posted by brookdalebill

I have a great early 80's SA2000S. It's like a ES345-355, but with push/push coil taps and a solid spruce top. Tommy Tedesco used to use them. It was a gift from my ladyfriend.

Me too. Best guitar I have ever had ,and I have had a few good Fenders and Gibson.

It does everything I want with a neck that is perfect for me. Not letting it go anytime soon.

Mine is the red like Fearnot's posted above. What colour is yours Brookdalebill ?

[Tele-Champ]

My twin F335 acoustics

[kac123]

If anyone ever has an Pacifica 1412 for sale please send me a PM.

Thanks!

[mr.jef]

Can i be a part of the yamaha club?
Mine is both Yamaha and Tele, a Pacifica 302s. It's fairly hard to find information on it, it's not even listed in the archives of Yamaha's website.
From what i gather, it has an alder body with a belly cut, cream binding on the front, and a sharper 'horn' than a tele. Slightly sunburst and very goodlooking red finish with gold hardware and a pearloid pickguard (a bit too much bling for me, but hey). The electronics do their job, but the pickups are not vastly impressive, the bridge pu is okay, the neck not at all. There's a superbly nice neck with a rosewood fretboard (very flat radius, rather skinny, low action, fast). And gold tuners on which i'm a bit undecided, they don't seem to hold the tune very well, but it's not horrible either. On the whole i like it a lot, which i had not expected (i just wanted something cheap to fill my guitar gap until i would have some more cash). Apart from the pickups and some cosmetic issues it is everything a guitar should be.

[mr.jef]

Oh, if anyone would have more information (i don't even know when it was built, serial number indicates '95 or '05), i'd most certainly appreciate it.

[Guitar_Ninja]

My first guitar, a Yamaha Pacifica 120SD:

[Samishellacool]

Here's my 80's yamaha stratocaster, van zant(correct me if im wrong) bridge pup, mint green guard.

[mudbean]

My FG730S won my search for a "sit by the desk" beater.



I gain more appreciation for this guitar daily.



How can they make such a nice instrument so cheaply??



mud

[FraKo]

I'm the proud owner of a Pacifica 311 MS, stunning see-thru orange stain finish.

[waterboy452]

I just bought a new FG700S acoustic this past Thursday. I'll try to post some pics when I can. I can't believe how good this guitar sounds for the price. I'm going to take it back to the shop where I bought it for a free setup tomorrow. The action needs lowering a bit, but otherwise, I'm extremely happy with this Yamaha.

[stillrockin]

Here's a little auditorium or 000 size acoustic I am just in love with! A Yamaha FG-150 made in Japan in the late 1960s/ early 1970s.




Solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides. It's a treat to hold and play this guitar. Exceptional condition... either carefully loved, kept tucked away for safekeeping or both.

Here's a photo set on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3938911...485586/detail/

[markbastable]

Originally Posted by caliban335

Here's a 2000 SGV300 I just got back from a setup. The blend circuit for the two pickups closest to the bridge is a cool option and the vibrato bends down and up nicely.

This brought a not-unmanly tear to my eye, I have to say. I had one very like this - but a lot older, I think. Late 60's, early 70's vintage. It had a zero fret and I seem to remember that the profile was flatter at the top of the body. And the pots were white plastic.

It was the first electric guitar I ever bought - in about 1978, from a pawn shop. I saw it in the window and I was besotted. It cost me about £80 - call it $140 at the time.

It was badly weighted. Tended to fall away from your left hand when you let go of it. But I loved it - and I was pretty distraught when it was stolen (along with the van and all the rest of our gear) in about 1989.

I replaced it with another one - a sunburst like the one RichardWitt shows earlier in the thread. I still own it. It has no zero fret - which is a tiny detail, but maybe that's why I've never fallen in love with the substitute in quite the way I did with the first one. I'm thinking of selling it. I might go for one of the reissues that Yamaha offered - and then withdrew - in the late nineties (or whenever it was). But I'm not gonna touch the pearlised ones. I mean - come on. Pearlised? No class.

However, if the bastard who stole my original is reading this, I'll ask no questions if you want to sell it back to me. That's not just my guitar you have there. What you stole is my adolescence. And also, as my mother would have pointed out, the first instalment of my tuition fees.

[elsewhere]

I have a Yamaha FG720S acoustic. It looks and sounds wonderful.