YAMAHA PACIFICA 402S #MO23939

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Photos from the owner, used with permission

Owner: 

Don

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Serial number: 

MO23939

Don's customized Pacifica PAC 402 S was made in Taiwan # MO23939, 23/08/1996

Specifcations:

  • single cut alder body
  • maple high definition, neck bolt on
  • rosewood fingerboard with pearldot’s
  • chrome hardware and white pearled pick guard
  • customized  pickups and controls:
  • neck pu Seymour Duncan single
  • bridge pu Seymour Duncan hot rail humbucker
  • Fishman piëzo under the vintage bridge
  • 1 tone and 1 volume control, both push/pull to split the hum and switch on/off the piëzo
  • 3 position pickup selector switch
  • Colour:  amberburst

Link: Don's website (in Belgian)

 

2 Comments

PAC 402 bridge

It's a cool looking variation on the classic telecaster bridge, it doesn't have the folded up metal at the back and sides, has nice individual intonation adjustment and is pretty solid looking with a "stripe" down the middle. The individual saddles are not attached via a screw to the back of the bridge (Telecaster style) but instead are screwed down into the bridge, a bit like Floyd rose saddles. If I had to guess I would say Wilkinson, it reminds me a bit of a Gotoh/Wilkinson Trilogy bridge.

I asked the owner, Don about the bridge, and he seems to think it is the original Yamaha bridge (he doesn't recall changing the bridge), but it looks different to any PAC 402 bridge that I have seen on the net. If you look closely at the second photo you can see there is  a small gap between the bridge and pickguard suggesting that this bridge is not the original. This is Don's reply:

"I sold the Yamaha, so I can't look at it anymore, but if I remember correctly, this is a vintage - type Yamaha bridge.

Yamaha doesn't make them any more I guess, but some parts-suppliers probably still have them (Thinking of Thomann in Germany, Mainmusic in Holland, Gitarfetisch in the USA...) It also had a piëzo under it (in this case a Fishman)."