Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:45 pm
Hi everyone,
Steve from the UK here, my 1st post but not my 1st time on the site.
The site has been a brilliant source of information and i am totally in love with G&l ,whilst i am not a great player i have G A S when it comes to G&L , the heritage,the sound, the product ,truly guitar porn.!!
i am hoping to be registering my G&L`s over the xmas break.
i have recently purchased a fretless s-500 which made its way to the uk a few years back , brought by the previous but 1 seller. the guitar is on the registry CL05476 , does any one have any information on this please, it has a translucent body with a tortoise shell pick guard, 3 single mfd`s,maple neck.
many thanks for your time
regards Steve
Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:14 pm
Hi Steve,
First welcome to the forum. Judging from the S/N (see the
Serial number significance page), your S-500 is build somewhere between late '97 and late '98. You'd have to take off the neck for a definitive answer to how old your guitar is, but my bet would be somewhere between December '97 and March '98. Otherwise, there is not much I can add.
Hope this helps,
- Jos
Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:30 pm
Hi Jos,
many thanks for your reply , that ties in with the original owner having the guitar under the bed for 10 years or more, i understand he was a collector and was selling up due to ill health etc(.so the story goes )the S-500 is in very very good condition. As mentioned i am not a brilliant player but to have a fretless neck seems , well ??. a challenge, but the sound is superb (through my bad playing !!) ha ha
Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:37 pm
Steve, your a lucky guy. It appears to have an unlined Birdseye Maple neck. What a find. I wonder if it was originally an employee guitar? Welcome aboard-- Darwin
Sat Dec 29, 2012 3:28 pm
Hi Darwin,
oh wow , thank you, i shall try post a picture tomorrow uk time , thank you for taking the time to post me ,
regards Steve
Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:01 am
dorset steve wrote:Hi everyone,
Steve from the UK here, my 1st post but not my 1st time on the site.
The site has been a brilliant source of information and i am totally in love with G&l ,whilst i am not a great player i have G A S when it comes to G&L , the heritage,the sound, the product ,truly guitar porn.!!
i am hoping to be registering my G&L`s over the xmas break.
i have recently purchased a fretless s-500 which made its way to the uk a few years back , brought by the previous but 1 seller. the guitar is on the registry CL05476 , does any one have any information on this please, it has a translucent body with a tortoise shell pick guard, 3 single mfd`s,maple neck.
many thanks for your time
regards Steve
This might be a G&L S-500 Fretless from FreeNote Music. They have an exclusive arrangement with G&L to offer
microtonally-fretted and fretless G&L Guitars and basses. We have this
link in our
Links page.
Please do post a photo of your guitar, see
Tutorial: Posting photos.
Hope this helps.
Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:02 pm
Hi Craig,
thanks for the lead.
i will post a picture as soon as, i have spent most of today reading old posts and enjoying the beauty of the site ,
thank you
Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:11 pm
just had a quick look at freenote music, the head stocks in the photostream are saying "freenote" mine has G&L S-500 , might drop them a line
Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:10 pm
dorset steve wrote:just had a quick look at freenote music, the head stocks in the photostream are saying "freenote" mine has G&L S-500 , might drop them a line
They offer replacement necks with their headstock design and complete G&L instruments with G&L headstock design. Click on the
Guitars link and
then go to the bottom of that page and you will see this Fretless image and the list of the G&L models they current offer:
Hope this helps.
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