Specifications

Manufacturer:
G&L Guitars, glguitars.com

List Price:
$3,016.00

From 'bucker blast to Tele-style twang, the G&L ASAT Classic BluesBoy Rustic is custom made to satisfy your tone requirements.

From a guitarist's perspective, a Tele-style guitar with a single-coil bridge pickup and neck-position humbucker is the equivalent of a surf ’n’ turf dinner—two great tastes that always go great together. When you want sparkle and twang, engage the bridge pickup and let ’er rip. Want beef, brawn and raunch? Slap on the neck ’bucker and wail on that sucker.

Designed by Leo Fender, the G&L ASAT Classic has a lot of the same soul and vibe as the original solidbody model that Leo unleashed in 1950, but it also includes a few refinements developed by Leo in his never-ending quest for perfection. G&L’s new ASAT Classic BluesBoy Rustic model offers all of the benefits of a modern “Custom”-style ASAT Classic BluesBoy guitar along with accelerated aging techniques that make this new guitar feel like a broken-in ax with hundreds of gigs under its beltbuckle scratches.

FEATURES

One of the biggest refinements on the ASAT Classic BluesBoy Rustic model is G&L’s boxed steel bridge with individual brass saddles for each string. This design retains the desirable bright tone and twang players demand while it enables dead-accurate intonation adjustments. The pickups also provide a significant upgrade in tone. G&L installed a sweet-sounding Seymour Duncan Seth Lover humbucker in the neck position and G&L’s own hi-fi Magnetic Field Design (MFD) single-coil designed by Leo and George Fullerton in the bridge position. As for the rest, you already know the plot: alder body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, nitrocellulose lacquer finish, and three-position pickup selector with master volume and tone controls.

PERFORMANCE

With its light (but not featherweight) body and thin, “aged” nitro finish, the ASAT Classic BluesBoy Relic is very lively, responsive and resonant. The neck is just a tad on the hefty side, so it provides big tone but isn’t too unwieldy to play. Because the humbucker is placed a little closer to the bridge than similar designs, neck-position tones retain a good amount of snap and sparkle while avoiding muddiness and poor definition. G&L’s Rustic aging is very hard to distinguish from real use and abuse, and it makes the guitar feel as comfortable as a broken-in pair of custom cowboy boots.

THE BOTTOM LINE

From 'bucker blast to Tele-style twang, the G&L ASAT Classic BluesBoy Rustic is custom made to satisfy your tone requirements.

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