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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 very thick and borders on muddy at times.

G&L ASAT Super (July 2004)


 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:  Schaller M6, 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 lb










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