Yamaha Pacifica 112V

Body - Alder
Neck - Bolt-on Maple
Fingerboard - Rosewood, 350mm (13.75”) radius
Frets - 22
Scale length - 648mm (25.5”) 
Pickups - Two single-coils, one humbucker
Controls - 5 position pickup selector, master volume, master tone
Bridge: Vintage style tremolo

It’s no wonder that Yamaha’s Pacifica 112 enjoys such sales success. At a remarkably reasonable price the guitar features a solid Alder body, which in conjunction with the powerful bridge humbucker and two single-coil pickups produces an impressive palette of vintage and modern rock sounds.
Having been in production for decades, the Pacifica keeps getting better, and these brand new 112V's are testement to that. Modern styling, great playability, fat sounds and quality materials all round, professionals and beginners alike recommend the Yamaha Pacifica as the best sub £200 electric guitar on the market.
It's based, of course, on the Fender Stratocaster, but with many improvements along the way. We start with a slim and stylish headstock, with a natural satin finish. The Pacifica and block lettered Yamaha logo's are in black, with their familiar '3 tuning forks' logo tucked in at the end.
The 6-a-side machine heads are in chrome, a die-cast enclosed stlye, they're not branded, but work very well.
The C shaped neck is superb for an instrument of this price, probably the the single part that made the Pacifica most famous. Hard Maple, it has a satin finish that is very smooth, even after being played for a while with sweaty palms! The Rosewood fingerboard is unbound, with fantastic, unblemished fretwork, very nicely cut and shaped. The Rosewood itself is also excellent, well polished up and slippery. This all makes for a very noce guitar to play of course.
For techies out there, nut width is a slim 40mm, action height 4mm on the bass side and 2mm on the treble, string spacing at the bridge is 53mm, nice for finger pickers.
The neck is bolted on the Alder body, fixed by a Chrome plate and 4 large screws at the back, joining the body at the 17th fret on the bass side, and 21st on the treble. The body is heavily chamfered aroung the back of the upper bout, giving a comfortable playing position when sat or standing. More chamfering on the front of the upper bout makes strumming a little easier, and also reduces the guitars weight.
There is a range of finishes to the Pacifica range, a dark Violin Sunburst, Black and pale Sonic Blue, all with heavy gloss finishes, and of course the Yellow Natural Satin. This the most popular colour, giving a very natural look and feel.
The white, 3 ply scratchplate is smaller than on previous models, covering the areas under the 2 single coil pickups and the 5 way selector switch only. The pickups themselves are white, the bridge humbucker having a black plastic surround.
The Chrome bridge and tremolo arm work very smoothly too, with 6 individually adjustable Chrome saddles that look of good quality. The master tone and volume controls are also decent chunks of Chrome, the tone having a pull-up coil-tap switch built in.
Playing the Pacifica on a clean channel is just great. All 3 pickups give a really clear, clean tonal response, no wooliness here. The bridge humbucker sounds a little more rounded, with a bit more oomph giving deeper tones, but pull up the tone control and and it snaps into bridgt a cheerful.
On an overdrive setting likewise. The Pacifica can stand plenty abuse and is great for blues, rock, country, metal, a very versatile player.
A world famous guitar made better, you find anything better under £200. Highly recommended by Guitarbitz.

From £199