Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:19 am
I've had this asat for about 10 years and know nothing about it. Can anyone help me out?
brant mcclelland
gallery: need asat info
Thanks
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:55 am
Hey Brant,
With a little more information like serial number and pictures we can surely help. What year did you purchase and were you original owner?
Look forward to seeing pictures.
Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:04 am
brant wrote:I've had this asat for about 10 years and know nothing about it. Can anyone help me out?
brant mcclelland
gallery: need asat info
Thanks
Here are your photos:
See these posts:
List of Regular Production ASAT-style guitars (USA)List of pickups used in G&L guitarsSerial number significanceProduction List of G&L Instruments (USA)I cannot quite read the serial number on the neck plate, can you post a photo of a close up of the serial number? I will ask Memo to look it up
in the factory logs to get specs and completion date.
Hope this helps.
Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:17 pm
Serial no. G018671
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Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:02 pm
brant wrote:Serial no. G018671
Thanks
I sent this S/N plus your photos to Memo and here is his reply:
Hi Craig,
G018671 comes back to an Invader, I tried G016871 this comes back to a Rampage, obviously not matching the ASAT in the photo. The body wood looks like maple, if you want to provide a better close up photo of the serial number i can try again, all the best.
Memo
Powder-coating over the stamped Serial Number can be difficult to read. If you could take a closeup photo of the neck plate in good light, I will send it on to Memo for
him to decipher. Another thing you could try is to get a soft pencil rub with a thin tracing paper sheet over the neck plate serial number. Send me or post those photos
and I will pass them on to Memo for further research.
Hope this helps.
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:02 am
Thanks I'll do that.
Brant
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:30 am
Tracing paper didn't help. With high magnification the
serial reads: G018571
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Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:07 pm
brant wrote:Tracing paper didn't help. With high magnification the
serial reads: G018571
Thanks
I sent that serial number and Memo replied:
Hi Craig,
We got a match! Completion date is December 3, 1986, color is described as blonde, ebony fretboard, 1 5/8" nut width, 7.5 radius, all the best.
Memo
So, you have a first year in production, ASAT model with a Blonde finish on a Maple body. Ebony fretboard with a hard rock Maple neck with #2 neck.
Reference post on neck profiles:
What are the USA neck size options, past and present?Hope this helps.
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:48 am
What kind of bridge and pickups does it have, so I can add it to the registry?
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:10 pm
brant wrote:What kind of bridge and pickups does it have, so I can add it to the registry?
Bridge is the Saddle-Lock bridge and the pickups are G&L Magnetic Field Design™ soapbar style single coils.
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:39 pm
Sweet ASAT. I need to get some earlier models in my collection.
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