G&L ASAT Classic best color?

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:22 am

im buying a new g&l asat classic soon , it will be my first g&l. what color should i gte theres so many options that idk what to choose. please post comments about what colors you have and what colors you like. thanks!

Post by **Craig** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:51 am

gnr4life wrote:im buying a new g&l asat classic soon , it will be my first g&l. what color should i gte theres so many options that idk what to choose. please post comments about what colors you have and what colors you like. thanks!

Welcome to our website!

Boy, that is really a loaded question: Some will say Black because "we all know that black G&L guitars sound the best" ...

Some of my favorites are Clear Orange, Blueburst, Butterscotch Blonde ... way too many to list. There are not too many G&L finish colors I don't like.

You should check out the G&L Porn!!! sub-forum and see some of what's been built in the past.
Also, check the websites of many of the G&L dealers. For example, Guitar Adoptions has some execellent photos and a variety of finish colors.

Hope this helps.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:34 am

i like the clear orange too but does it look nice bc sometimes ive seen it looke different.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:39 am

i also like the blueburst but i have seen the black edge be big and small. id rather have it small is that possible ?

suave eddie · Post by **suave eddie** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:37 pm

i also like the blueburst but i have seen the black edge be big and small. id rather have it small is that possible ?

Here is an example of my ASAT Classic in blueburst ordered last summer. This should give you some idea.

thunder100 · Post by **thunder100** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:32 pm

Tobaccoburst

Just buy what you like-ASAT's are great in any colour

Roland

Everybody has a different boat to float

My current favorite

Miles Smiles · Post by **Miles Smiles** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:19 pm

thunder100 wrote:

My current favorite

It's hard to keep an eye at the finish, I'm getting stuck with the vibrato, which is yelling for a proper setup.

BTW: Even an ordinary Fender knob on a G&L switch looks better than none:

He're some ASAT-finishes:

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:24 pm

im still getting used to this posting thing but bare with me, but suave eddie thats an amazing blueburst! that came out amazing! im seriously considering blueburst. do they have old school sunburst or old school tabacco burst idk whats its speciafically called but do they still offer that? its kind of like tabacco burst but lighter.

NickHorne · Post by **NickHorne** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:40 pm

Here's Old-school tobacco burst; nice!!
http://www.guitarsbyleo.com/FORUM/viewt ... =36&t=5479

thunder100 · Post by **thunder100** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:48 pm

Miles Smiles wrote:
thunder100 wrote:

My current favorite
It's hard to keep an eye at the finish, I'm getting stuck with the vibrato, which is yelling for a proper setup.

Done allready this was the internet sales picture.Now nicely flat with 10's

Roland

Miles Smiles · Post by **Miles Smiles** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:15 pm

thunder100 wrote: Done allready this was the internet sales picture.Now nicely flat with 10's

Oops, OK.

Michael-GnL-Michael · Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:05 pm

Double post...

Michael-GnL-Michael · Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:06 pm

You may not realize that a flamed cap will make a finish look different than over a regular grain pattern. The Tobacco Burst shown below has a tiger-like quality to it because of the flamed cap. If you do not plan on ordering your guitar with a cap look for examples that are over regular grain like in these thumbnails:

Clickable Thumbnail Images

Old School Tobacco Sunburst over Swamp Ash (reg grain)

Transparent Red over Swamp Ash (reg grain)

Transparent Orange over Swamp Ash (reg grain)

Blueburst over Swamp Ash (reg grain)

These guitars have flamed caps. The flamed cap gives it more of a tiger coat look.

thunder100 wrote:Tobaccoburst

louis cyfer · Post by **louis cyfer** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:21 am

if we bare with you, there might be an indecent exposure charge somewhere. better be careful.

thunder100 · Post by **thunder100** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:39 am

One remark though

The flamed tops getting old,get uneven.The dark and the light parts have not the same hardness and seem to shrink differently.So you get a kind of ondulated top.This does nothing to the tone and sound is just optical.If you look close you can see that on my above tobaccoburst.

Roland

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:53 am

I'd go with the Old School Tobacco Sunburst over Swamp Ash with a Rosewood neck.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:21 am

i actually decided im going to get natural gloss over ash body with maple neck and a tortuise shell pickguard with double seymour duncan humbuckers and a coil split.

louis cyfer · Post by **louis cyfer** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:30 am

gnr4life wrote:i actually decided im going to get natural gloss over ash body with maple neck and a tortuise shell pickguard with double seymour duncan humbuckers and a coil split.

that is a good choice except for the pickguard and the pups. i was not aware that double buckers were available on the asat classic. i don't like those seymours, the g&l mfd's, both single coil and humbucker are much better pups.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:49 pm

what do you reccommend i get for a pickguard and im kinda leaning towards mfds now too

suave eddie · Post by **suave eddie** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:06 pm

You can't go wrong with any of the G&L finishes that show the natural grain of the wood--clear natural, or bursts.

With a nice grain top it's almost a shame to cover it with a pickguard--I think Lucifer would agree. If you do go with a PG, classic black goes with any color.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:29 pm

i went to my local g&l dealer today and he said that the only way i could get humbuckers and a coil split is if i got the deluxe asat. i want opinions if i should get the asat classic with stock mfd pickups or the deluxe with duncan jb and 59.

Miles Smiles · Post by **Miles Smiles** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:44 pm

gnr4life wrote:i went to my local g&l dealer today and he said that the only way i could get humbuckers and a coil split is if i got the deluxe asat. i want opinions if i should get the asat classic with stock mfd pickups or the deluxe with duncan jb and 59.

You probably mean: which one first?

The DeLuxe is more an universal guitar, there's nothing you can't do with it.
I normally gig with at least a Strat, a Tele and an LP type guitar. At one of the recent gigs, there was a really tiny stage, so I had the ASAT DeLuxe and the Legacy with me, for all that stuff and my DeLuxe doesn't even have coil splitting yet but I used it for all the Tele-Sounds and for hi-gain too.

My DeLuxe is the finest guitar I've got, it just hasn't a vibrato, so I have to deal with others too.

Post by **Craig** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:45 pm

gnr4life wrote:i went to my local g&l dealer today and he said that the only way i could get humbuckers and a coil split is if i got the deluxe asat. i want opinions if i should get the asat classic with stock mfd pickups or the deluxe with duncan jb and 59.

Each of those models have different types of bridges and obviously different pickups, so I recommend you check out G&L's main website
and look at the variety of models (USA and Tribute series) that are currently available.

Hope this helps.

louis cyfer · Post by **louis cyfer** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:59 pm

gnr4life wrote:i went to my local g&l dealer today and he said that the only way i could get humbuckers and a coil split is if i got the deluxe asat. i want opinions if i should get the asat classic with stock mfd pickups or the deluxe with duncan jb and 59.

i would recommend the asat special deluxe. 2 large mfd single coils, plus no pickguard. the best of both worlds.

astutzmann · Post by **astutzmann** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:21 pm

yup, asat special deluxe. amazing

I have the natural gloss finish on mine, its beautiful with the mahogany body and the maple cap.

If I were to do it again, I might do Lemondrop or Honey as the colours just to give it a little something!

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:19 pm

i just sent in a sheet for a quote and im getting a asat deluxe natural gloss with a maple neck and fretboard, with 59 humbucker and jb humbucker with a coil tap and turtle shell pg. OR im gonna get the same look but in an asat classic and not a deluxe with mfd pickups and not 59 humbuckers. opinions?

Miles Smiles · Post by **Miles Smiles** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:02 pm

A Deluxe luckily doesn't have a pickguard.

louis cyfer · Post by **louis cyfer** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:55 pm

gnr4life wrote:i just sent in a sheet for a quote and im getting a asat deluxe natural gloss with a maple neck and fretboard, with 59 humbucker and jb humbucker with a coil tap and turtle shell pg. OR im gonna get the same look but in an asat classic and not a deluxe with mfd pickups and not 59 humbuckers. opinions?

look at the asat special deluxe.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:04 pm

question about the MFD pickups, how do they sound are the bright and twangy or are they more warm and deep. and can they play like heavier stuff, i mean i know its a single coil but can they play like acdc style heavy or not that heavy im just wondering the range thay have.

Post by **Craig** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:47 pm

gnr4life wrote:question about the MFD pickups, how do they sound are the bright and twangy or are they more warm and deep. and can they play like heavier stuff, i mean i know its a single coil but can they play like acdc style heavy or not that heavy im just wondering the range thay have.

See this for descriptions of the various pickups here: List of pickups used in G&L guitars.

I'm sure there's a post or two of them being played in here: G&L Audio and Video Clips!!!.

Hope this helps.

astutzmann · Post by **astutzmann** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:09 am

well, I am no expert in the sound of pickups, but my asat special deluxe sounds warm and bright and can be punched. The bridge is slightly twangy but not like a tele. Mine is especially bright with the maple cap and the ebony board. Combined the two sound amazing to me.

I have the 59s in my heritage and they are nice, but very much more dull and muddy. That guitar also has a mahogany body and maple cap. They are good, but I'm contemplating changing the pups. If I could afford Tom Holmes pups, hmmmmmm.

So, right now if I had to choose between the two, I would go for the asat special deluxe, its bright, warm, versatile and different. You can get 59s in any guitar, you can't get MFDs.

Just my $.02 worth

louis cyfer · Post by **louis cyfer** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:34 am

astutzmann wrote:well, I am no expert in the sound of pickups, but my asat special deluxe sounds warm and bright and can be punched. The bridge is slightly twangy but not like a tele. Mine is especially bright with the maple cap and the ebony board. Combined the two sound amazing to me.

I have the 59s in my heritage and they are nice, but very much more dull and muddy. That guitar also has a mahogany body and maple cap. They are good, but I'm contemplating changing the pups. If I could afford Tom Holmes pups, hmmmmmm.

So, right now if I had to choose between the two, I would go for the asat special deluxe, its bright, warm, versatile and different. You can get 59s in any guitar, you can't get MFDs.

Just my $.02 worth

try the d allen alleycats. phenomenal pups. and they are very reasonably priced. low output, much brighter and clearer than other humbuckers i have had, i actually tested it against a tom holmes set, and they held their own.

astutzmann · Post by **astutzmann** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:49 am

cool, thanks Louis

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:08 pm

can i get an asat classic with a saddle lock bridge or just the ash tray bridge?

louis cyfer · Post by **louis cyfer** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:10 pm

gnr4life wrote:can i get an asat classic with a saddle lock bridge or just the ash tray bridge?

no saddle lock on the classic.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:12 pm

can i get a saddle lokc as an option or no?

Miles Smiles · Post by **Miles Smiles** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:21 pm

gnr4life wrote:can i get a saddle lokc as an option or no?

These is the list of possible options:
http://www.glguitars.com/instruments/US ... guitar.asp

Regarding to that, the answer is: no.

gnr4life · Post by **gnr4life** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:33 pm

ok thanks, but just bc im a pg fan and i like the hardware setup on the asat classic im gonna get the asat classic in natural gloss with the mfd pickups. and a satin maple neck and fretboard. probably a turtle shell pg too.

Dr B · Post by **Dr B** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 11:04 am

Step 1 - get a swamp ash body.
Step 2 - get a 'burst' finish - that tobacco burst in the above posts is to die for...

Step 3 - you cannot go wrong with MFDs in an Asat classic. Serious tone there.

Step 4 - I prefer maple necks....purely personal of course.....

JasonM · Post by **JasonM** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:03 pm

suave eddie wrote:
i also like the blueburst but i have seen the black edge be big and small. id rather have it small is that possible ?
Here is an example of my ASAT Classic in blueburst ordered last summer. This should give you some idea.

That Blueburst with the black PG is awesome looking! Is that an ebony board?

It looks dark in the photo.

suave eddie · Post by **suave eddie** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:13 pm

Is that an ebony board?

Yes that is an ebony board. I thought the black pickguard and the black edges of the burst finish needed an ebony board to complete the package.

JasonM · Post by **JasonM** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:21 pm

suave eddie wrote:
Is that an ebony board?
Yes that is an ebony board. I thought the black pickguard and the black edges of the burst finish needed an ebony board to complete the package.

Nice! Blueburst and rosewood look good together but ebony ties it in even better... Especially with the black guard.

johnnyqb · Post by **johnnyqb** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:09 pm

rpjones · Post by **rpjones** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:53 pm