jtcnj
Ambassador of the Crossroad
found this SSO on Letgo about a month ago and the guy finally replied. He listed it as broken and missing parts. I said I was interested at $20. if the rest is intact.
We met, it looked ok except it was real dirty and finger gunk grungy.
The hi E tuner was broken, The jack and plate, and switch tip were missing.
It is a Yamaha Pacifica P013, the lowest model.
The neck is straight.
The fretwork is really good - not great but very good.
The nut is ok. The tuners are meh, but better than the low end Epiphone ones - which is what I put at the hi E.
it is a bit scratched up and has some dings and chips. It cleaned up pretty nice though.
I fabbed up a down and dirty switch plate out of sheet metal cut from a computer power supply case.
I soldered up a jack and plugged it in.
The controls work, the tone pot is a little scratchy at zero, but has smoothed to a minimum after working them a bit.
The pick ups are meh as expected. I took the Guitar Madness AL5 neck and middle from my SX SSO and an Epi 700T I had laying around.
Is set up pretty low action, intonated nicely. It plays well, and is very comfortable and I bonded with it right away.
The strat pickups are pretty good, and the Epi 700T is a bit inarticulate, BUT - I intend this for some higher gain stuff and it sounds pretty good for what it is. The neck is a medium C.
I have a jack plate coming from Malaysia for less than a buck + a set of strings and I'm in about $25 bucks total since I had already ordered another set of pick ups for the SSO so these were headed to the parts box anyway.
I have the back plate just didnt put it back on.
I think I will put the SX tuners I upgraded which werent bad and are just sitting in the parts box.
We met, it looked ok except it was real dirty and finger gunk grungy.
The hi E tuner was broken, The jack and plate, and switch tip were missing.
It is a Yamaha Pacifica P013, the lowest model.
The neck is straight.
The fretwork is really good - not great but very good.
The nut is ok. The tuners are meh, but better than the low end Epiphone ones - which is what I put at the hi E.
it is a bit scratched up and has some dings and chips. It cleaned up pretty nice though.
I fabbed up a down and dirty switch plate out of sheet metal cut from a computer power supply case.
I soldered up a jack and plugged it in.
The controls work, the tone pot is a little scratchy at zero, but has smoothed to a minimum after working them a bit.
The pick ups are meh as expected. I took the Guitar Madness AL5 neck and middle from my SX SSO and an Epi 700T I had laying around.
Is set up pretty low action, intonated nicely. It plays well, and is very comfortable and I bonded with it right away.
The strat pickups are pretty good, and the Epi 700T is a bit inarticulate, BUT - I intend this for some higher gain stuff and it sounds pretty good for what it is. The neck is a medium C.
I have a jack plate coming from Malaysia for less than a buck + a set of strings and I'm in about $25 bucks total since I had already ordered another set of pick ups for the SSO so these were headed to the parts box anyway.
I have the back plate just didnt put it back on.
I think I will put the SX tuners I upgraded which werent bad and are just sitting in the parts box.
I own a Yamaha guitar myself in black. It's an RGX Custom that I paid over $2,000 w/ case back in 1989. It's a neck-thru body, ebony FB with crystal inlays and an H-S-H configuration with a master coil-split on the pull-push tone knob. It's a great playing guitar and Yamaha guitars in general are all pretty good...even the lower end models. Congrats on your purchase.
