I just picked her up yesterday from Dusty Strings here in Seattle, she's gorgeous, and she's just been added to the registry.
The finish is beautiful. There's just a hair less red than my 06 L2500. The neck is perfect, and exactly what I was hoping for with the classic plus C.
I only really needed to give the neck a touch more relief to be happy for my hand.
I was a bit surprised by how little resistance there is on the volume and tone pot, as all of my earlier G&Ls had pots that were... Not stiff, but not nearly as easy to turn. Not a gripe, just an observation. Everything is tight, right, and straight with no fret buzz or weird bridge buzzes. I do need to drop the bridge pickup on the treble side a bit, but overall the pickup balance is pretty good out of the box. The P90 has just a hint of buzz like a good P90 should, and the MFD is pretty quiet, and everything goes silent with both pickups selected. It sounds great.
The only real puzzler, and not a huge deal, is that I ordered it with a vintage tint gloss neck. I knew that they don't recommend it on ash bodies with wood binding because they don't like the match, so I figured they would skip that step or not and I was ready for either. I wanted it to match my 06 L2500 with the same finish. What's puzzling is that the neck was finished in gloss but not the vintage tint, or at least the honey amber tint that I'm used to seeing. The spec sheet indicates it, but the neck itself is very light with a very, very pale yellow tint. Not objectionable, but I'm curious if vintage tint has changed over the years. The bottom pic compares the new neck with my 06. The pic actually shows the bass as being a bit cooler in tone than it is in real life but the ASAT is pretty close.
I love it regardless, it looks and plays great, just one of those mysteries from Fullerton.
I am an extremely happy camper.
