G&L ASAT Special Premium Review

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Overall Rating 4.56

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Features 4.34

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Quality 4.35

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Reliability / Value 4.64

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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Wood: Swamp Ash  
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  • Pickguard: Yes  
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  • Neck Shape: C-shaped neck  
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  • Neck Wood: Maple (Rock)  
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  • Fingerboard Radius: 9.00"  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Maple  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: White Dot  
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  • Number of Frets: 22  
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  • Nut Width: 1.6252" (1-5/8")  
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  • Bridge: Saddle Lock  
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  • Hardware: Chrome  
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  • Fret Size: Jumbo  
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  • Number of Pickups: 2  
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  • Pickup Switch Type: 3-way Pickup Selector  
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  • Bridge Pickup Type: Single Coil  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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  • 18:1 sealed-back tuners.

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G&L is a company that you can count on and be sure that they know their job, and that's building great instruments. Another model from G&L named ASAT Special Premium outperforms and outranks sound-wise many other models in its price range. It's well worth the price.

This guitar is fitted with all the features you could possibly wish for, for a playing style that goes with this kind of instrument. Carefully chosen features leave no guitar player's desire unfulfilled, which makes G&L's ASAT Special Premium an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for ASAT Special Premium's features!

If you try playing ASAT Special Premium after an average guitar, it becomes obvious that this G&L deserves to be proud of making it sound so beautifully. It delivers great tone when plugged in to most amps and, versatile as it is, it will allow you to find your own tone that you will be proud of as well. G&L's ASAT Special Premium is surely a world class sounding instrument.

G&L did a good job. ASAT Special Premium is built well, the finish feels just right, the hardware is solid. While playing for a longer periods of time you can expect ASAT Special Premium to stay in tune and you will be pleased while playing, because the neck is extremely comfortable. You might find that over time metal parts will oxidize a bit, but that's normal and nothing to worry about. G&L did a really good job with ASAT Special Premium guitar.

ASAT Special Premium is reliable and durable guitar that goes shoulder to shoulder with top built guitars. It will perform well in any imaginable situation, and will stand the test of time, if you take the usual care of your instrument. It is no secret that G&L makes good, quality instruments, and that is surely the case with ASAT Special Premium guitar.