Mon Jun 22, 2020 4:48 pm
Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:58 pm
CritiqueOblique wrote:1. What wood was used for the body?
CritiqueOblique wrote:2. What is the bridge made from? I've noticed earlier bridges have this black finish and later ones have something that looks like chrome?
CritiqueOblique wrote:3. What kind of machine heads are they? The modern G&L machine heads I've found online look quite different.
CritiqueOblique wrote:4. Any info on the finish - I can't find another old L2000 online with that particular finish - it looks like it's a common enough finish on Tribute L2000s and I've seen older ones that look similar. However, it looks like on similar finishes, the horns on the body are entirely black, whereas on mine, the amber colour goes quite far up into the horns.
CritiqueOblique wrote:5. Any info that can help date it more precisely, without taking the neck off.
Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:47 pm
Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:47 am
Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:33 am
CritiqueOblique wrote:Jos & Craig, thanks both for all of this information - it was a lot more than I expected and definitely answers a lot of questions I had about the instrument.
Couple of things I was wondering about as a result of this. What differentiates the L2000 from the L2000E?
I noticed on the link you posted Jos that the bass discussed was fitted with an "E type" circuit - what is this circuit? For clarity, my bass has the usual - knobs are volume, treble-cut & bass-cut and the switches are pickup selector, passive/active/active with treble boost. The middle selector on mine is series/ parallel rather than the coil split (I've checked this in the past by tapping the pole pieces with a screwdriver and in both positions all the coils are always all on).
Also, could someone tell me the difference between (as is mentioned in the link you posted Jos) front-loaded & rear-loaded controls?
The other query I had on the E series - I'd previously discounted that because I'd seen E series L2000 with "E series" written on the headstock, although it looks like from what you've said Craig that they've kept making E series L2000s after dropping that label from the headstock - is that what you meant? Which I guess goes back to my first question about how you differentiate between the L2000 and the L2000E.
Also noticed there seems to be a huge variety of L2000s, some had scratchplates, some had backplates at the knobs/ switches and some had neither. It looks to me that there's basically not really such a thing as a "standard" L2000 if that makes sense? There seems to be a lot more variation within the model than you'd expect to see with other manufacturers.
Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:37 am
CritiqueOblique wrote:What differentiates the L2000 from the L2000E?
CritiqueOblique wrote:I noticed on the link you posted Jos that the bass discussed was fitted with an "E type" circuit - what is this circuit?
CritiqueOblique wrote:Also, could someone tell me the difference between (as is mentioned in the link you posted Jos) front-loaded & rear-loaded controls?
CritiqueOblique wrote:Also noticed there seems to be a huge variety of L2000s, some had scratchplates, some had backplates at the knobs/ switches and some had neither. It looks to me that there's basically not really such a thing as a "standard" L2000 if that makes sense? There seems to be a lot more variation within the model than you'd expect to see with other manufacturers.
Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:21 pm
yowhatsshakin wrote:P.S. The "Kings of the Road" ad is from around 1984-1985, not 1988. As stated above, by then G&L used rear-loaded controls on the L-Series basses.