For Serial Number formats, see this post in our G&L Knowledgebase forum:
Serial number significance.
Here is the section on Tribute Series serial number formats:
The G&L Tribute models have a different serial numbering scheme. All the Tribute Models have the build year and month coded in the serial number.
Tribute serial number formats are:
YYMXXXX or YMMXXXX (e.g., 0123456 - Made In Japan Tribute Models only)
YYMMXXXX (e.g., 01234567 - Made In Korea Tribute Models only)
YYMMXXXXX (e.g., 012345678 - Made In Indonesia Tribute Models only)
LYYMMXXXX (e.g., L01234567 - Made In China Tribute Models only)
LYYMMXXXXX (e.g., L012345678 - Made In China Tribute Models only)
Serial number location is on the back of the headstock.
Here is a post about the Tribute Series instruments which were introduced in 2003:
What is the new Tribute series which G&L announced in 2003?
Your Tribute Legacy HB was built in July of 2004. This was a new model which came out in 2004. It was made in Korea.
Here is the G&L web page for this model's specifications, courtesy of the Internet Archives:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041028223 ... /index.asp
You will see that your guitar has a Swamp Ash body with the Natural Gloss finish.
Hope this helps.
Please do add it to our
G&L Registry. Register it as a Tribute Legacy HB (aka HSS) model.
