G&L good value?

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G&L makes really, really excellent guitars. If you are a vintage Fender snob and insist that everything from the tuners to the bridge match '52 specs, you're going to hate the ASAT. If you just want a really good Tele, you won't be disappointed.
 
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The three-bold neck still freaks me out. I keep thinking of CBS-era Fenders and trying to keep one in tune...
 
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My Korean G&L ASAT Special has a four-bolt neck...and it plays and sounds better than my USA Strat ever did!!
 
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I regretfully had to sell my ASAT recently but no fear, I WILL get another as soon as finances allow!! I still have my 3 bolt Legacy.. better than 99.9% of strats I've ever played. DON'T let the old Fender 3 bolts put you off 'coz there is no comparison.
 
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d1dsj said:
I regretfully had to sell my ASAT recently but no fear, I WILL get another as soon as finances allow!! .
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So compared favourably to a US Tele - what are the pups like? Are the necks thick or thin?

Serial Number is 8044536 -anyone know how to date it?
 
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Pastor of Muppets said:
So compared favourably to a US Tele - what are the pups like? Are the necks thick or thin?

Serial Number is 8044536 -anyone know how to date it?
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The pick ups are nice and fat, not thin and weedy... the neck on mine was quite narrow, but for what I was doing n(which was just banging out chords in a 60's raw rock band... Smallfaces, Yardbirds, Kinks etc...) it was awesome. I genuinely tried loads and LOADS of Fenders.. I really wanted a '52 R.I, but I only found one Fender that I liked better than the ASAT and that was a Custom shop double bound Tele... more than twice the price! I wany a butterscotch Classic S next.
 
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Get a used one, pre 1995 or so. The newer ones are very heavy and have that awful bleached looking maple neck. The older ones had a nice tint with a gloss finish.

BTW, the guitar in my avatar is a 1991 law suit S-500.
 
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There is nothing better than a G&L! My favorite current production model is the Asat Classic Custom. Here's my '08 Asat Classic Custom.

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sosomething said:
The three-bolt neck still freaks me out. I keep thinking of CBS-era Fenders and trying to keep one in tune...
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G&L's three bolt necks are stable. They don't move around like Fender's version did. G&L, used the three bolt design from 1980 to 1997. During the 1997 model year they switched to four bolt necks.

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ratherdashing said:
G&L makes really, really excellent guitars. If you are a vintage Fender snob and insist that everything from the tuners to the bridge match '52 specs, you're going to hate the ASAT. If you just want a really good Tele, you won't be disappointed.
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You're 100% correct. G&L's aren't the same as Fender's. Leo Fender worked hard during his years at G&L to produce instruments and pickups that he thought were superior to his work while at Fender. I think he succeeded in building a better guitar.

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The change over from three bolt necks to four bolt necks was done in the middle of the '97 model year. So it's an early '97 or older.

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Was quality better/worse/similar then to now? Serial Number is 8044536 - does the last digit perhaps stand for 96?
 
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