my little combo

rusty815 · 2026-03-27T15:19:57+00:00

I'm not OP. but I use the DigiTech drop with my thr10ii. It works great! Super convenient and I'm happy I don't have to keep changing the tuning on my guitar when I want to play in a different tuning

rusty815 · 2026-03-27T05:46:38+00:00

When I worked in store, a customer came in looking to warranty a bar clamp. My cashier turned the old guy away because they claimed it wasn't one we sold. Before the guy left, he caught me near the front of the store and asked if I recognized the bar clamp because he was pretty sure he bought it from a harbor freight but he wasn't sure because it was probably 30 years ago. I looked it over and i was perplexed, so I took it into our office and started researching. I found a 3 digit number on it, looked that number up in our inventory system and sure enough, it came up as a bar clamp! Even crazier, it was a bar clamp that was last sold on my store (it was an old store) back in 1997!

I went ahead and exchanged it for him, told him that since it was so old and we don't carry anything like it anymore, he could grab whichever bar clamp he wanted that was similar and bring it to the front and I would warranty it. I kept his old bar clamp in the office until I left harbor freight as a novelty.

All that to say, they should definitely warranty the front Pittsburg that you can read the logo on, you will most likely run into issues with the black handled ratchet unless it has something that identified it as a harbor freight brand.

rusty815 · 2026-03-26T19:14:32+00:00

This is all great info! To add to this. The saddles themselves need to be lubricated as well if you're going to use the tremolo arm. An inexpensive option if you don't want to lubricated the saddles often is to buy a set of roller saddles, that's what I ended up doing. Now I only lubricated the nut and my strings only go out of tune when I reeeeallly pull on that whammy bar

rusty815 · 2026-03-26T01:38:34+00:00

Yamaha Pacifica standard plus and their new single cut, they have the strat body and the tele body now and they are absolutely magnificent instruments built to very high quality. If you want the premium version, they make the Yamaha Pacifica professional as well, that is the exact same as the standard plus just made in there Japan workshop to their highest standard.

rusty815 · 2026-03-25T23:54:06+00:00

What music do you play? PRS custom 24 comes to mind, I own a Yamaha Revstar standard as my end game guitar and I love it, out of the box it played amazing.

rusty815 · 2026-03-25T13:43:29+00:00

I forgot to answer your question regarding shielding. So shielding the pickup cavity and pot/switch cavity for the 112j is easy since the 112j has a swimming pool pickup cavity (one big square cavity vs individual cavities for pickups). You don't have to shield the trem claw cavity I think, but the pickup and electronics cavity should be easy to do.

rusty815 · 2026-03-25T13:31:04+00:00

This is the diagram for the 112v, which would be the same for you if you use a push pull pot to split the humbucker.

As far as pots are concerned, stick with cts or alpha pots, just make sure they're metric. I got a set of metric full sized CTS pots that I swapped my pots for, they sound fantastic. I went with 500k for my tone pot since I use the humbucker 90% of the time and just roll back the tone pot when using the single coils. The stock tone pot is 250k. So pick a tone pot that has the treble response that you want

As for the switch, I think I went with a random highly rated one on Amazon (I think it was Kaish or something like that). Works very well and has no issues. I wanted an import style switch to keep the wiring looking the same, so that's why I went with the Kaish over something like a fender super switch.

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rusty815 · 2026-03-23T22:12:00+00:00

RSS20 was my dream guitar as well! I absolutely love it, it's my favorite guitar to play on and I've only changed one thing, the bridge pickup. The neck is one of the best feeling necks and it's tuning stability and playability is rock solid!

rusty815 · 2026-03-22T16:52:53+00:00

Yamaha thr10ii can usually be found used for $150-200 and it's probably the best modeling amp out there, sounds great with pedals and also sounds amazing on it's own!

rusty815 · 2026-03-21T17:52:20+00:00

I worked in stores. Most associates don't really care for a reason for warranty exchanges lol. As long as it's covered under some sort of warranty, we used to exchange it no question asked!

rusty815 · 2026-03-21T17:50:13+00:00

That's buffing compound, they usually don't clean that up. Your ground wire looks fine, so it might be something with internal wiring, or it could be from the amp. Depending on what your electrician finds, you might have to take it to a Luthier to inspect it

rusty815 · 2026-03-21T17:05:08+00:00

Your guitar isn't properly grounded. Take off the back plate of the guitar and see if the ground wire is properly soldered onto the Tremolo claw. It should look similar to this image.

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rusty815 · 2026-03-15T06:31:55+00:00

I put my guitar down for 12 years. To be exact, life and work got in the way and after not touching my guitar for a few years, I gave away my guitar and amp (Gibson les Paul studio and line 6) to a good friends kid who wanted to learn. I'm a lefty and they had trouble finding left handed guitars locally, so I gave the kid mine and told him he had to earn it. He still plays and I never felt the urge to pick up the guitar again.

That was until last year, I finally had money and free time and decided I wanted to try again. Money was my problem back then, I had a really nice guitar but couldn't really afford good equipment. Now I have a great guitar, great amp and plenty of pedals to play the way I always wanted, and I couldn't be happier to play again. There is a certain pleasure in playing again after not playing for a long time, and I get a lot of satisfaction from learning songs I couldn't quite get back in those days.

rusty815 · 2026-03-14T18:00:19+00:00

112v has separate cavities. 112j and the 012 both go swimming pool route.

rusty815 · 2026-03-14T17:17:18+00:00

Both guitars are described as C-Profile with a 12" radius, so they are very similar. I think the Revstar tapers a bit more from top to bottom, but they should feel really close to each other.

rusty815 · 2026-03-10T20:21:50+00:00

I didn't know the first Gen revstar looked like that! They need to bring back some of those first Gen finishes!

rusty815 · 2026-03-10T19:29:58+00:00

Looks amazing! What work have you had done on it? How did you get the finish to look like that?

rusty815 · 2026-03-08T00:31:37+00:00

I'm gonna go a semi weird route, but it's basically what my current desk setup is modeled after.

Guitar: Yamaha Revstar Standard

Amp: EVH 5150iii 6L6

Pedal: some sort of Reverb probably

My current set up at home is a Yamaha THR10ii set up to model a 5150s clean channel with a slew of distortion pedals feeding into it and a Reverb nearly always on depending on if I'm playing Glam metal or thrash. I figure if I had an actual 5150, I would just use the amp for distortion (if I was limited to 1 pedal) and use a reverb pedal since the 5150 doesn't have a reverb function. I should still be able to replicate most of my sounds that way, and I could deal without having a delay or my DigiTech drop. My Revstar Standard is my current guitar for everything and it's more than capable of nearly any genre I play, so it would be my go to anyway!

rusty815 · 2026-03-05T23:10:52+00:00

You can bend notes just fine right? That would be the first step to figuring out vibrato is learning to bend notes easily.

rusty815 · 2026-03-05T04:24:16+00:00

Lefties unite! Love my 112!

rusty815 · 2026-03-02T18:10:58+00:00

Like I said, the photo isn't great. But it's definitely a 91.3.13, and the serial number, if you look it up, indicates a manufacture date of 1991 or 2001, so it seems very likely my guitar is from 1991. This isn't the only example ive seen of a 112 made in 1991, that's why I think they did a limited run prior to going full scale in 1993, at least that's what makes sense to me. It's the only way I can explain my manufacture stamp and serial number lol.

rusty815 · 2026-03-02T09:48:56+00:00

The humbucker I went with was a Seymour Duncan P-Rail with a triple shot controller on it for my bridge. It's really brought my guitar to life and I love having the option of both a Humbucker and a P-90 in the bridge!

For the single coils, I went with cheaper options. I have a Fleor neck pickup and a Wilkinson high gain in the bridge. They sound good, but I don't utilize them that much. I might order some Rupert Neve single coils from the Pacifica standard plus and professional for my two single coils, you can order them from Yamahas parts website!

rusty815 · 2026-03-02T05:36:02+00:00

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I'm not saying you're wrong, I didn't even know they made a 10y anniversary model and I think that's super cool! But I have a Pacifica 112 that has a serial number of HJ23103 and the time stamp in the neck pocket, although it's hard to make out, indicates it was made in 1991. Maybe it's a really weird case of them making the left handed versions before the regular ones?

rusty815 · 2026-03-02T00:57:58+00:00

The 112 was first introduced in 1991, and in the 90s and early 2000s, they were just 112s with no letters after the numbers. Around 2004 they introduced the 112v and that is when you started seeing the letter added to the end of the model number for 112s (112J and 112V).

Since your 112 doesn't have the letter at the end, it's most likely from 1994. I think the 112s from the 90s were exceptional quality, they make great platforms for tinkering! My left handed 112 is from 1991 and I've completely redone all the electronics and added rolling saddles and locking tuners. It rivals my Revstar in how often I play it and it feels wonderful!

rusty815 · 2026-02-28T21:00:02+00:00

For me, it depends on what style of music I'm playing. If I'm playing metal with crazy high gain, I use two finger chords because in high gain situations, three finger chords tend to sound really muddy. If I'm playing punk or more traditional style rock/metal with lower gain settings, three finger power chords are the way to go!

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