Greetings From Amarillo, Texas

Newbie here -

RCSBlues from Amarillo, Texas -

From my brother's estate I was recently awarded his 2004 G&L Tribute Legacy HB with the blade pickups- in near mint condition;
It was delivered by UPS this past Monday evening 11/29/2010;

I will change the strings and try it out immediately and give a report;

I want to change the very heavy strings to either .010 - .046 or .009 - .042 -
What does anyone recommend for string gauge?
I'm thinking more of the .010 - .046 set.

This G&L Legacy Tribute HB has 2 sets of switches, apparently a 3 way and a 2 way; I hope I can figure it out;

The instructions for the switches are something like this according to a fellow musician who knew my brother:

In his own words -
If I remember correctly: the 2-way adds the bridge to the neck p/u. when the main switch is in neck position.
The 3-way is for the bridge p/u only: 1 setting full on in seriel (normal setting) another setting is parallel (brighter-less mids, not quite as loud) the last is "split" which on a normal humbucking p/u would be only one coil on (strat-like) even less volume. On that p/u, however, it's 2 humbucker sets, so if You "split" it, it's still in noise cancelling for the "strat" sound
, much the same as the other 2 p/u's are hum cancelling. W/o trying the guitar out, all I can tell you is that on the 3-way, loud/fat- series/full on, not quite as loud/less fat- parallel, less volume still/ strat- "split".

Upgrades:

Replaced the top nut to metal roller bearing type.
Replaced tuning gears to self locking.
Replaced pickups to blade type pickups. No hum with on the single coils. The bridge pickup is a humbucker with split coil taps and added an extra switch just for that. I'm not sure if it has an out-of-phase switch setting. I'll try to find the email regarding the switch.
The pickguard may have been upgraded due to the pickup upgrade.

Here are recent pics:

Welcome, RCSBlues!

Thanks for sharing your story (my condolences on the loss of a brother).
I'm sure that you will forever treasure that guitar. I, too, acquired a guitar
(Gibson B-25 acoustic) when my Uncle passed away. It is very specal to me.

That is a sweet looking guitar and I bet it sounds as good as it looks.

Welcome to the world of G&L.


PS I responded to your other post about your strings question.

Just wondering how you're liking your G&L...

Also wanted to join Craig in acknowledging the loss of your brother.

Welcome - ed

It had a really old set of .011 - .049 strings on it - changed about 3 years ago according to a very reliable source -

I changed them out to D'Addario .010 - .046 and it plays like a dream;

Ran it straight though a Peavey Heritage VTX 212 combo - 130 watts;
The G&L has really great tone and I think I actually figured out the 2 micro switches;

Thanks for asking and your comments in regard to my brother.

Randy

Glad you're enjoying. You've got a very beautiful - and versatile - instrument there.
Happy too that you found this place. - ed

Sorry for your loss. Welcome to the community.

My condolences also on your loss.

I just strung my Legacy Deluxe with 11's and I found it a bit on the stiff side when bending. I will probably go back to 10's (it had 9's when I bought it and I wasn't a fan).

I guess it comes down to personal preference with string gauge!

Welcome to the forum BTW, I am new also and everyone around here seems to be really nice so enjoy!