First post here.
Owning a selection of G&L basses and playing guitar as well I thought it's time for a G&L guitar as well (my last buy was 15yrs back). I was dreaming up my favorites with the online builder and had already it narrowed down to a hardtail Legacy Deluxe or HB2, ebony FB, big neck and all. I then went to my G&L dealer to discuss the options and to try some guitars to get some general feeling, focussing on Strat-bodied specimen, Tributes as well as US models. Well, all was quite nice, perhaps the necks typically felt a bit slim for my tastes, and some were sort of boat anchors.
Then I spotted that sunburst ASAT Super hanging on the shop wall, then unknown to me. I never was a Tele man, let alone one with a slab body, so ASATs were not on my mind, initially. I looked at it closer, played it and was immediately struck. Everything felt so right on this guitar and i find it's a masterpiece of art, aesthetically, everything falls in place so naturally and workmanship is 100% flawless.
I went home undecided... couldn't get it out of my mind, did some research on the net, figured out it's a rarebird... and ended up buying it. I can get a standard G&L with my options anytime but I won't get a second chance on this one any time soon and it's quite close to what I had in mind, well, except for being Tele-bodied. But it is a light-weight guitar and thanks to the rounded edges it still feels comfortable, the slight neck dive also is not an issue. I'll sure have to reconsider my previous thinking of Teles not being very ergonomic.
There is one sore spot though, which is not excatly specific to this G&L but applies to many guitars, and that is zero shielding. IMHO, third millenium guitars need a fully RF-tight shield job including the pickups, singlecoils or not. Today we have so much more disturbed electrical conditions, given all those CFL lamps, switch-mode power supplies, computers, CRTs, WLAN and cell phone networks etc than 30yrs before. With clean amp settings and tone control rolled back this is not much a problem but when you enter heavy crunch territory on the bridge pup with tone full open there can be a lot of buzz/noise/static when electro-smog levels are high. While G&L's attention to detail and usability is extremely high, in general and on this guitar, they missed the shielding isssue.
Of course part of the "noise problem" is from the single-coil nature of the beast, then again in the middle position the high frequency buzz/static is not any lower which is sign of no shielding, together with the huge increase of buzz once the hands don't touch metal parts. On a perfectly shielded guitar there is no difference whether you touch the bridge/strings or not, IME.
So a full shield job is needed (like on any other guitar/bass I've owned, for that matter) and while I'm at it, I'll try to install and dial in some DIY dummy coils to remove the magnetic interference to get a truly silent guitar in all modes. Those will be of this exiticing large size, low impedance coil type that will fit nicely into the lower bout's chamber.
Other than that commonplace electrical issues, the guitar is able to make me perfectly happy and will continue to do so for years. It's sustain and sensitivity to the touch is to die for, the sligtly D'ish and substantial neck shape suits me fine, the pups are amazing -- I've seen comments of people not to happy with these overwounds but I dig their beefy yet articulate tone very much.
Thanks to G&L for putting out this fine and unique guitar.

Sorry for the crappy pic, will post better ones in the "porn" thread sometime.
Cheers, George