FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

A “special build” model for 2004 is the ASAT Super.  G&L says “Special Build instruments are not restricted to either maximum or minimum production quantity. They may be produced from time to time, or simply not revisited after the first run. This decision is left entirely to the Custom Creations department.”  Production from the initial run was limited to 60 guitars, but additional ASAT Supers continue to trickle out of the factory. The Super takes the ASAT Jr. recipe one step further.  Like the Jr. it has a semi-hollow tobacco sunburst mahogany body, mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard, and two MFD soapbar pickups.  However, it uses Leo’s famous Saddle-Lock bridge instead of the tune-a-matic/stop combination on the Jr.  The circuit is a modified ASAT circuit.  It has a bootstrapping resistor to increase the taper of the tone pot just like the Leo-era ASAT circuit.  But the real difference is in the pickups.  The Jr. used standard soapbar MFDs, but the Super uses hotly overwound soapbar MFDs, thus making it… well… super!  These pickups are much hotter than the 20th Anniversary’s overwound pickups making the Super sound more akin to a guitar with humbuckers.  The tone is thick and juicy, and the signature ASAT sparkle is still in there, though muted.

Body:  Semi-hollow; mahogany

Finish:  Tobacco Sunburst,  polyurethane

Neck:  2-piece mahogany, bolt-on

Fingerboard:  Ebony;  pearloid dot markers

Number of Frets:  22

Pickguard:  Black-white-black plastic laminate

Bridge:  G&L Saddle-Lock with brass saddles, chrome

Nut:  Micarta

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 3/4 inches

Weight:  6.7 lbs.