First Look

Yamaha’s flagship Pacifica 612 gets a facelift

Yamaha’s Pacifica series has been a workhorse punching far above its price point ever since its launch in 1990, and now, the guitar that was originally designed to capture the spirit of the LA custom shop scene has had an overhaul.

The alder-bodied Pacifica 612 VII builds on the bolt-on maple neck/rosewood fingerboard design that we’re used to, and comes in two flavours: the flamed-maple 612 VIIFMX (available in Fired Red) and three non-flamed 612 VIIX models in Matte Silk Blue, Teal Green Metallic and Yellow Natural Satin, and all of the new additions are decked-out with matching headstocks.

Keeping with the versatile west coast custom vibe, both versions include some top-flight hardware and features - Seymour Duncan SSL-1 single coils, and a TB-14 Custom 5 humbucker, (complete with push-pull coil split), Graph Tech TUSQ nuts and string trees, Grover locking tuners and Wilkinson VS50 bridge/vibrato units.

The Pacifica 612VIIFMX and 612VIIX should be making their way to shops as you read this, priced at £886.