What £200... Now a NGD

[Lew]

It's a fair question. Yea, some students come straight from school and the studio is in town so it's not always practical for them to drag a guitar around all day (not a problem for most). And, yea what Philly said. Some students are in awe and dig playing a custom built axe (I let them use it) but some students are clearly disturbed and confused by it - it is a disturbing axe :-D

But the biggest reasons are because it's hard for a beginner to follow a visual example with that extra string which is made doubly worse by me playing either half a step or a whole step down depending on my mood. 11-66 suck in standard tuning!

[viking]

Yeah,it def. makes sense if your axe is a 7-strings custom built  8) ! I still remember my first classical guitar teacher : i was  going there mainly to watch him play his 60's Ramirez  :lol: ! I didn't really care for the guitar,per se,but i just wanted to watch/hear him play.Unfortunately,it didn't last very long (he moved away..) but it gave me a big boost and i still remember the feeling..

[Lew]

I had a similar thing but it was with a 60s SG. Lovely thing.

[Lew]

Went into the local on the off-chance and they did indeed have a Pacifica.

It's been modded (for better or worse) with a killswitch 0_o a BCRich bridge pup and a Super500 (whatever that is) neck pup. 9/10 condition - the frets don't have any wear which is what I was looking for. No dead spots and low action.  £70. It'll do the job nicely  8)

[Philly Q]

Replace that scratchplate assembly and it doesn't even look like a budget model.  They are very, very nice guitars.

[dave_mc]

very nice :D

[Telerocker]

Congrats! Absolutely no money for this guitar.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Cool - that's a total win any way you look at it.

Also psychologically having a budget guitar and making it sound awesome reminds your students that it's the practicing that is most important to their progress at this stage.

[Lew]

Exactly, Jon :-)

I'm really impressed with it so far. Makes me wonder how good the expensive ones are.

[Slartibartfarst42]

Pacifica 112 or, based on how impressed I am with the Vintage V100 I just bought; some kind of Vintage.

[Plenum n Heather]

Nice score! A friend of mine has a couple of Pacifica guitars and I have played and really enjoyed.

[dvorak]

£70 bucks for that and it plays well? What's not to like??

Congrats.