YAMAHA PACIFICA (DOUBLE CUTAWAY) SERIES

Yamaha's take on the Fender strat style electric guitar. The Pacifica series has been hugely successful so far, due to competitive pricing and good quality control.

The Washburn Mercury Series (MG models) was introduced in 1992 as a replacement for the Washburn Chicago Series (KC models) of superstrat electric guitars. In 1993 Washburn employed Grover Jackson to direct its USA manufacturing facility in Chicago, Illinois and some of the Mercury Series models were made in the USA.

WASHBURN KC (Chicago) SERIES

The Washburn Chicago (KC) Series was a line of super-strats introduced around 1989 as a replacement for the Force (G) Series and made until 1992. Most of these KC models were made in Korea but the KC90 and KC100 were made in Japan and had Seymour Duncan pickups. In 1990 a few of the models were dropped including the KC100, KC10, KC45 and KC60 and other models were added including the KC42, KC44 and KC90. Models with vibrato bridges (which is all of them except the KC45 which had a wraparound bridge) have a "V" after the model name on the truss rod cover.