FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

The G&L Cavalier is a rare guitar. Most were made with ash bodies, but the example shown here was made with a mahogany body making it rarer still. Add in the hardtail bridge and you've got quite a rarebird indeed. It's a shame that that G&L discontinued the Cavalier model. The small humbuckers are bright and, for the most part, sound like a hum cancelling version of the ASAT soapbar MFD pickups which they resemble. The mahogany body works particularly well with these pickups and smooths out the top end nicely.

 Body: Solid; 2-piece mahogany

 Finish: Natural, nitrocellulose lacquer

 Neck: 2-piece maple, bolt-on

 Fingerboard: Ebony; pearloid dot markers

 Number of Frets: 22

 Pickguard: Black-white-black plastic laminate with black crinkle powder coated aluminum control plate

 Bridge: G&L Locktight, black crinkle powder coat

 Nut: Plastic

 Tuners: Schaller Mini, chrome

 Pickups: Two, G&L Magnetic Field Design Offset Humbucking with adjustable pole pieces

 Controls: Master volume, treble, and bass, 3-way pickup selector

 Scale Length: 25 1/2 inches

 Neck Width at Nut: 1 5/8 inches

 Body Width at Lower Bout: 12 7/8 inches

 Body Depth: 1 5/8 inches

 Weight: 7.8 lb