Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:59 pm
Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:32 pm
tomanche wrote:Here's a vintage G&L S-500 at Guitar Center under their Vintage category that they are calling a G&L Standard for $800. I thought it looked quite clean. Look more closely at the headstock---after the usual spot for the S-500 name, it has extra writing, plus another little design detail. It's a G-200 neck, Series II! I'm guessing that this is an employee-made parts guitar, especially since it's at a GC near between LA and San Diego. Interestingly, that may make it a short-scale S-500, assuming the bridge position gives the correct length in conjunction with the neck. It's uniqueness as a G&L non-model works against its price, IMHO. Not sure who is going to buy this one...If you're a G&L fan, it wouldn't seem worth the money. Maybe they should call it a G&L SG-100,000?!? Here's a link to the vintage page; select the G&L make from the right-side menu and the results will come up. http://www.vintageguitars.net/
They've more recently added a Skyhawk in blue with matching headstock, Leo fine-tuner bridge, and some chunks of paint missing, perhaps some rust.
Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:09 am
Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:32 am
Fri Jun 15, 2012 12:12 pm
tomanche wrote:Ken, is that the black F-100 in NJ? I'm going to look at the red one near Chicago tomorrow after I fly in there.
Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:43 pm
KenC wrote:tomanche wrote:Ken, is that the black F-100 in NJ? I'm going to look at the red one near Chicago tomorrow after I fly in there.
It is in NJ. I would be cautious about it, personally. There is no body date, and the bridge is not like anything I've ever seen or heard of. It is apparently stamped "G&L Custom" and does not have a "G00XXXX" serial number like you would expect to find.
Ken
Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:22 pm
Elwood wrote:KenC wrote:tomanche wrote:Ken, is that the black F-100 in NJ? I'm going to look at the red one near Chicago tomorrow after I fly in there.
It is in NJ. I would be cautious about it, personally. There is no body date, and the bridge is not like anything I've ever seen or heard of. It is apparently stamped "G&L Custom" and does not have a "G00XXXX" serial number like you would expect to find.
Ken
I have had an 'aftermarket' G&L tremelo assembly ,purchased from G&L in the 80's,
and the plate had 'custom' stamped instead of a serial number.The box is around here somewhere.
I still have a 'custom' bridge plate in my parts drawer.
I think the front edge curve is reversed from what the standard numbered bridges used (concave instead of convex).
I figure just like the Fine tuner trems , there were a few different ideas that came to fruition.
Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:36 pm
Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:28 am
Craig wrote:We have one in the Gallery, see Album: 1982 Vibrato Assembly