FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

The Legacy was the first new guitar model produced by G&L after its acquisition by BBE in 1992 and was meant to offer a more traditional S-type guitar. It used a mix of old and new features. Old features include the S-500 body and neck, veener fingerboard, hardware, PTB circuit, and Sperzel tuners with split shafts. The new features included a satin headstock finish, semi-gloss neck finish, slightly different neck carve behind the nut, "bathtub" pickup cavity route, taller and narrower frets, Strat-style control knobs and of course, the Duncan pickups. The guitar shown here is finished in an early version of Belair Green that is darker than true Belair Green.

 Body: Solid; 2-piece alder

 Finish: Belair Green, polyurethane

 Neck: 2-piece maple, bolt-on

 Fingerboard: Rosewood; pearloid dot markers

 Number of Frets: 22

 Pickguard: Single ply white plastic

 Bridge: G&L Dual Fulcrum Vibrato, chrome

 Nut: Plastic

 Tuners: Sperzel, sealed, satin chrome

 Pickups: Three, Seymour Duncan SSL-2 alnico single coil with non-adjustable pole pieces

 Controls: Master volume, bass, and treble; 5-way pickup selector

 Scale Length: 25 1/2 inches

 Neck Width at Nut: 1 5/8 inches

 Body Width at Lower Bout: 12 1/2 inches

 Body Depth: 1 5/8 inches

 Weight: 7.3 lb