NGD: ASAT Special

[art]

Behold CLF079842, alder body, jet black frost, OLS, front and rear contours, soft V neck, ebony fretboard, pickguard delete, face dots delete, matching headstock, and graph-tech nut and string tree.

I was originally thinking about the Broadcasters' all black color scheme, but without black hardware that's a bit difficult to achieve. That opened me up to considering other things like frosted finish, pickguard delete, etc. Needless to say, I think it's totally awesome.
A

Edit: Oh, and big thanks to Craig for posting images of all the various options!

[FZTNT]

ASAT Stealth...Sweet!

Tom

[WitSok]

I remember seeing that one on G&L's facebook page and was like WOW! I'm still like WOW! That is one drop dead gorgeous ASAT. Well done Art!

I bet an SC-2 finished similarly would be awesome.

Rock on Art.... Cheers, Dan.

[john o]

nice asat special deluxe!

[tomanche]

Wow! That is killer! Congrats!

[sam]

Hey Art,

VERY sweet, congrats.

It has been said Black Guitars sound better.

[dalto]

Congrats!

That is fantastic. I love the black frost and the block headstock is great.

My ASAT Special is one of my favorites.

[cho]

Beautiful! That is one of the sharpest ASATs I have seen! Congrats!

[meursault]

Cool looking one !! I think i almost hear it ! ^^

[art]

Thanks all! My first G&L equipped with a saddle lock bridge, and I'm really liking the sustain and the tuning stability.

A couple more photos, first a family portrait.



And then, I'm curious about this one. Is the headstock birthmark missing because this is a soft V neck, or have production processes changed so that it no longer shows up on any USA made G&L?



Thanks again!
A

[Craig]

Thanks all! My first G&L equipped with a saddle lock bridge, and I'm really liking the sustain and the tuning stability.

A couple more photos, first a family portrait.



And then, I'm curious about this one. Is the headstock birthmark missing because this is a soft V neck, or have production processes changed so that it no longer shows up on any USA made G&L?



Thanks again!
A

It's because of production process changes, see this post in our G&L Knowledgebase: what is the little dot on the back of g&l headstocks?.

Hope this helps.

[FZTNT]

I was talking to someone at G&L last year when I bought one of my ASAT Special HB's to clarify some information and mentioned not only the headstock Birthmark but also the two on the back. This was the first time I had seen the ones on the back. He told me that they no longer need to use the dowel pin method anymore but they still put one there to pay homage to the old ways. So you may see them go away altogether some day.

Tom