FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

The second model produced by the G&L Custom Creations Department was the ASAT Jr.  Introduced at the Summer NAMM Show in July 1998, the ASAT Jr. was inspired by Gibson's Les Paul Junior of the late 1950s.  As such, it has the same basic ingredients as the Gibson, i.e. mahogany body and neck, ebony fingerboard with 12-inch radius, tune-a-matic bridge, and single coil pickups, but made with a distinctly different recipe.  For example, the ASAT Jr.'s body is semi-hollow instead of solid, it has a bolt-on neck rather than a set-neck, and the scale length is a Fendery 25.5 inches instead of the Gibson standard of 24.75 inches.  The G&L pickups are also quite different from the Gibson's P-90 pickups.  The resulting guitar has a smooth and incredibly detailed clean tone, though the bridge pickup can be a bit thin sounding for some players.  There were 250 ASAT Jr.'s were made between 1998 and 2002.

Body:  Semi-hollow; mahogany

Finish:  Cherry Red,  polyurethane

Neck:  2-piece mahogany, bolt-on

Fingerboard:  Ebony;  pearloid dot markers

Number of Frets:  22

Pickguard:  Black-white-black plastic laminate

Bridge:  Gotoh tune-a-matic style with Gotoh stop tailpiece

Nut:  Plastic

Tuners:  G&L/Schaller, sealed, chrome

Pickups:  Two, G&L Magnetic Field Design single coil with adjustable pole pieces

Controls:  Master volume, master tone, 3-way pickup selector switch

Scale Length:  25 1/2 inches

Neck Width at Nut:  1 5/8 inches

Body Width at Lower Bout:  12 5/8 inches

Body Depth:  1 27/32 inches

Weight:  n/a