The original Pacifica design was first released in 1990 and was conceived as a high-end ‘improved’ Strat-style guitar by the small team at the just-opened Hollywood R&D centre. It’s named after a city above San Francisco and was joined by a more Les Paul-inspired guitar, the Weddington, named after the street in which the facility was located. Ironically, the guitar’s success, in terms of numbers, came a couple of years later with the huge-selling, lowly priced Pacifica 112.
The new Pacifica models, which have been sometime in development, retain the essence of that original design, and Yusuke Ota provides some insight to
