G&L USA Legacy Guitar, Shoreline Gold
Player's Perspective
Music Store Live is proud to offer up this beautiful USA-made Legacy, aptly named for carrying on the design of the great Leo Fender. G&L has earned a reputation for American-made consistency and quality without exorbitant price tags. You can immediately feel the attention to detail in their instruments.
Right out of the box the action is nice and low and the fretwork is perfect. The guitar is well-balanced and extremely comfortable. A satin finish on the neck allows for effortless gliding up and down the fretboard and the vintage tint gives it a cool look, too. A classic combination of alder body, maple neck, and rosewood fretboard has been at the heart of s-style guitars like this for a long time. This is just one of those guitars that every time you pick it up, you know it's going to do what you need it to. It's simple, and yet extremely versatile. It's a great tool that gets the job done!
One cool thing that does speak to Leo Fender's continuous tinkering with his designs is the PBT system found in this guitar. So, instead of a standard volume, tone, tone configuration that you see on most strats, G&L has a passive bass and passive treble control that allows you to cut the high and low frequencies. This provides a bit more flexibility and versatility than the original system.
We always have a lot of fun putting together G&L custom builds for our inventory. We kept it simple with this one but we're really digging how the shoreline gold finish and the tort pickguard go together.
Manufacturer's Description
The G&L Legacy™ blends contemporary refinements from the Leo Fender†-designed S-500™ and Comanche® models with classic Alnico V pickups. If your holy grail is faithful Alnico single-coil tone with modern refinements and superb craftsmanship, the Legacy makes for an excellent choice.
The Legacy’s vintage-spec CLF-100 Alnico V pickups have that unmistakable chime and quack reminiscent of the best examples from the late ‘50s, thanks to the work of G&L’s Paul Gagon. Gagon found his inspiration reviewing original prints stored in Leo’s private laboratory at G&L, but that was just the start. In the early ’80s, Gagon was an R&D engineer at another company when he was tasked with finding out what was so special about the early bolt-on guitars many players raved about. Gagon analyzed many examples of what were considered holy grail guitars, spending time out on the shop floor talking to builders still working in the pickup department since the ‘50s, all on a quest to discover where the real mojo was – and wasn’t. What he learned from the builders matched his own engineering analysis. You see, back in the day, the actual spec of pickups coming down that old production line varied considerably. That meant coming up with the right specs for the Legacy pickups was more challenging than simply following the prints. Gagon’s persistence paid off as the Legacy garnered rave reviews from both players and magazines like Guitar Player and Guitar World.
This axe is no slave to the past, however, starting with Leo’s PTB™ (Passive Treble and Bass) system which functions on all three pickups for dramatically more variety than the vintage setup. What’s more, the Legacy features a Leo Fender-designed Dual-Fulcrum vibrato, a work of engineering art which allows bending up or down with unsurpassed stability, while offering a silky feel through its beefy aluminum vibrato arm.
The Legacy is all about honest, classic Alnico tone complemented by Leo’s own modern refinements. And now, it’s available at a price within reach of every working musician. Once you play a G&L Tribute Series, you’ll never look back.
The G&L name, stylized G&L logo, distinctive “hook” headstock design, Tribute, L-2000, Saddle-Lock, Magnetic Field Design and MFD are registered trademarks or trademarks of G&L Musical Instruments / BBE Sound, Inc.
† The personal name, likeness and signature of Mr. Clarence Leo Fender are property of G&L Musical Instruments / BBE Sound, Inc. and may not be used in any commercial capacity without prior approval. For inquiries regarding the use of the “Leo Fender” name, likeness or signature, please contact us. G&L is not associated with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
Specifications
Body
- Model: Legacy
- Color: Shoreline Gold
- Body: Alder
- Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
Neck
- Construction: Bolt-On
- Fretboard: Indian Rosewood
- Neck: Maple
- Finish: Satin, Vintage Tint
- Scale Length: 25.5"
- Fretboard Radius: 9.5"
- Frets: Medium Jumbo
- Neck Profile: Modern Classic - 1 11/16” nut width with 1 5/8” string spacing allows a generous edge roll for superb comfort without string fall-off. Fairly slim with mild taper from 0.820” at 1st fret to 0.870” at the 12th fret.
Electronics
- Pickups: G&L CLF-100 Alnico 5 (reverse-wound middle)
- Control Knobs: Volume, Passive Treble, Passive Bass
- Pickup Selector: 5-Way Blade Switch
Hardware
- Bridge: Dual Fulcrum Vibrato
- Tuners: Standard 12:1 Ratio
Miscellaneous
- Spec Sheet and Certificate of Authenticity Included
- Case: Deluxe Black Tolex
- Serial #: CLF2102132
- Instrument Weight: 8.1 lbs.
Overall Condition
Music Store Live is proud to be an authorized dealer for G&L. This Legacy is 100% brand new and is being sold with a full manufacturer's warranty. Photos are of the exact guitar you'll receive.
Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, tested, set up, and cleaned all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.