Need asat info

[brant]

I've had this asat for about 10 years and know nothing about it. Can anyone help me out?
brant mcclelland
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[sam]

Hey Brant,

With a little more information like serial number and pictures we can surely help. What year did you purchase and were you original owner?

Look forward to seeing pictures.

[Craig]

I've had this asat for about 10 years and know nothing about it. Can anyone help me out?
brant mcclelland
gallery: need asat info
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Here are your photos:








See these posts:
List of Regular Production ASAT-style guitars (USA)
List of pickups used in G&L guitars
Serial number significance
Production List of G&L Instruments (USA)

I cannot quite read the serial number on the neck plate, can you post a photo of a close up of the serial number? I will ask Memo to look it up
in the factory logs to get specs and completion date.

Hope this helps.

[brant]

Serial no. G018671
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[Craig]

Serial no. G018671
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I sent this S/N plus your photos to Memo and here is his reply:

Hi Craig,
G018671 comes back to an Invader, I tried G016871 this comes back to a Rampage, obviously not matching the ASAT in the photo. The body wood looks like maple, if you want to provide a better close up photo of the serial number i can try again, all the best.
Memo

Powder-coating over the stamped Serial Number can be difficult to read. If you could take a closeup photo of the neck plate in good light, I will send it on to Memo for
him to decipher. Another thing you could try is to get a soft pencil rub with a thin tracing paper sheet over the neck plate serial number. Send me or post those photos
and I will pass them on to Memo for further research.

Hope this helps.

[brant]

Thanks I'll do that.
Brant

[brant]

Tracing paper didn't help. With high magnification the
serial reads: G018571
Thanks

[Craig]

Tracing paper didn't help. With high magnification the
serial reads: G018571
Thanks

I sent that serial number and Memo replied:

Hi Craig,
We got a match! Completion date is December 3, 1986, color is described as blonde, ebony fretboard, 1 5/8" nut width, 7.5 radius, all the best.
Memo

So, you have a first year in production, ASAT model with a Blonde finish on a Maple body. Ebony fretboard with a hard rock Maple neck with #2 neck.
Reference post on neck profiles: What are the USA neck size options, past and present?

Hope this helps.

[brant]

What kind of bridge and pickups does it have, so I can add it to the registry?

[Craig]

What kind of bridge and pickups does it have, so I can add it to the registry?

Bridge is the Saddle-Lock bridge and the pickups are G&L Magnetic Field Design™ soapbar style single coils.

[bigjim711]

Sweet ASAT. I need to get some earlier models in my collection.