Traditional Leo Fender styling in a gorgeous, handcrafted guitar.
The lavishly grained swamp ash body has a transparent finish to let it show through. The hard rock maple neck and maple fingerboard are fast and sleek. It's equipped with 2 Magnetic Field Design single-coils that serve up traditional tone. Hardware includes Schaller nonlocking tuners, a 3-position pickup selector, volume, and tone controls. Includes hardshell case.
The patented Magnetic Field Design® pickups use a ceramic bar magnet installed underneath each coil, with soft iron adjustable pole pieces to transfer the magnetic field to the surface of the pickup. By contrast, traditional Alnico type pickups, such as used in the Legacy and George Fullerton models, use nonadjustable Alnico pole pieces leaving the only adjustment being pickup height. The Magnetic Field Design has this adjustment, but further offers individual adjustment of each pole piece, letting the player effectively adjust the output of each string on each pickup. Magnetic Field Design (MFD) yield about twice the output per wind, making the pickup quieter while allowing a greater overall output. The sound of Magnetic Field pickups is slightly warmer with a broader frequency response. One major Nashville session guitarist remarked that G&L Magnetic Field single-coil pickups sounded as balanced and sweet as his favorite old vintage Alnico equipped axe. The difference is that the MFD pickups sound that good right into his amp without all the EQ tweaking of his mixing console that made his other guitar sound so good. When he ran his G&L though his studio rig, he was truly amazed at the rich and warm, yet clear and sparkly sound.
G&L ASAT Classic Electric Guitar Features:
Swamp ash body with natural finish
Hard rock-maple neck with maple fingerboard
7-1/2" neck radius
1-5/8" nut width
22 frets
Standard size Magnetic Field Design single coil pickups
Traditional boxed steel bridge with individual machined brass saddles
3-position pickup selector, volume, and tone controls
Chrome hardware
3-ply pickguard
Includes molded hardshell case
G&L ASAT Classic Electric Guitar Includes:
Hardshell case
If you love custom workmanship comined with traditional styling, this is your axe. Order today.
Posted by Sister Disco from Seattle on Nov 12, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Gigging Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Classic rock
I have always been a die hard fender guy, I was looking for a telecaster style guitar with a more warmer, fuller sound than my 52 re-issue. I found one in the ASAT Classic. This guitar is amazing. It reminds me of the Schecter guitars Pete Townshend used to play in the early 1980s in terms of sound. In other words, more like a Les-Tele style sound. The guitar has fantastic string balance and the pickups offer perfect sustain when using overdrive.
The build quality is superior, I will put it up against Fender Custom Shop anyday. These are absolute jewels of guitars.
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Posted by RedBear from Ely, NV on Mar 16, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Semi-Pro
Reviewer's Play Style: Southern Rock, Blues and Country
This guitar is everything a Telecaster wishes it could be. The tone is to die for. Everyone that hears it comments on how great it plays. I use the bridge pup 99% of the time and it has never let me down. There are no dead spots along the entire fingerboard. EVERY note I hit comes out loud and clear. I can't say that about my Fender Strat. That is a good guitar but has a couple dead spots where the notes die. This ASAT is going to become my go to guitar from now on. I'm so glad I got it. The fit and finish are perfect. My guitar has a super tight neck joint. I can't even get a thin piece of paper in there. It's rock solid. The finish is as good as I've ever seen. The maple fingerboard is beautiful with the aged lacquer on it. The grain of the body is gorgeous under the transparent butterscotch finish. The black guard looks great. I love this guitar. I'd give it a 5 if it had a better case. The one that comes with it is just a notch up from a gig bag. But then again, I knew that going into the deal. I didn't buy it for the case it comes in. I bought it for it's playability and tone, which are there in spades. What can I say? I love this guitar!
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Perfection...
Posted by gitfiddledude from Portland, OR on Aug 28, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Rocker
Reviewer's Play Style: All styles - Bluegrass, country, rock
I've had this guitar since '95. The tone is absolutely amazing. I constantly receive comments on how great it sounds. The hardware/pickup/pots are all solid. I've never had anything break. I love this guitar so much I'm going to be buried with it.
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Best Tele out there
Posted by Outlaw from Danbury, CT on Dec 2, 2007
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: ACtive Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, and Jazz
My brother always played a Fender '52 Reissue that I loved, but it doesn't hold a candle to the tone my ASAT classic puts out. I ordered mine in blueburst with a pearl pickgaurd and woodbinding. One of the most beautiful guitars I've ever seen. Don't try to cut back on anything you'd want in a G&L tele, cause you'll be playing it forever.
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G&L ASAT CLASSIC
Posted by Johnny from Oregon on Nov 23, 2007
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Studio Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, Country, Rock, Blues
This is a G&L ASAT CLASSIC, it's a nice piece of wood, mine is Blond with a swamp ash body a birds eye maple neck and rose wood fretboard. Here the rub, the neck and body don't fit as well as they could, some space between the body and the neck joint, no big deal just it could have been a lot tighter. I've seen cheap guitars with tighter nick joints. Another thing, the fretts wern't that well dressed, I took care of that my self with some steel wool. The most important thing it, this guitar is a great player, better sounding than I thought it would be, the MFD pickups are fastastic sounding for a ceramic type pickup. They are almost as hot as the P-90's in my Goldtop but have a bit more highend bite and are super for twang, not so good for Jazz, clean Blues leads like the kind I usually play sound better with this guitar than my '62 Strat and almost as warm as the Goldtop. The tone control works smooth from bright right down to a muddy bottom end, nice! In all it's the best sounding Tele I've ever owned, the other 3 were all Fender's and all fine guitars. I've been playing 45 years and this guitar is my back up guitar for stage gigs and is getting lot's of use in the studio. Try one for your self.
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