Your killing me over here:
EDITED (in red) and replacement pics showing the case change, 8-31-08. EDITS 9-20-08 in blue bumping price up $200.
I hate to part with her, but due to a set of personal circumstances that have me kicking in my value of people (my family) more than 'things', I'm forced to let some luxuries go, and so I'm putting my virtually mint '02 G&L Comanche (s/n 26509, listed in the G&L Forum's Registry) up for adoption.
I'll post another luxury item here in a thread of its own. More of my harem may follow, as needed, to see me through, 'til I'm down to my hard-core, emotionally bound & tied keepers.
This won't be on sleeze-bay or craig's list or anyplace like that; besides posting it here, I've posted this on the G&L and Tacoma user forums. I've elected not to take up my dealer's offer to consign them for me so as to avoid risking injury at the hands of clumsy, careless window-shopping clowns that can populate a guitar store. But he will be letting his regular patrons know it's available.
Here's the scoop:
Custom-built by hand with minimal if any CNC methods on Fender Avenue in Fullerton, CA.
Solid Swamp Ash body with upgrades of a Flamed Maple cap and birdseye maple Gun-Oil Tinted neck & fretboard. 22 Jumbo Dunlop frets, GraphTech nut, Schaller locking Tuners, nickel-plated brass saddles, and Leo's Fender's brilliant dual-fulcrum tremolo mech.
G&L's '#1' Neck (they offer 5 options) is a 12" radius 'C', 25 1/2" scale, 1 5/8" at the nut, 2 1/4" at the heel. Note: since they're hand-sanded (a human operates the machine), it's very possible that no 2 G&L #1 necks will be identical. I have 2 ASAT's with the #2 neck, and they are different.
The G&L 'Magnetic Field Design Z-coil' pickups are Leo's adaptation of his split-coils he first designed for the P-Bass: the 2 ceramic bar magnet halves are wound in opposite directions to render them noise-cancelling. Polepieces are soft iron, allen key adjustable, while 'traditional Strats' are Alnico mag & fixed Alnico pole pieces; MFD's also yield about twice the output per wind than those Strat pups. Controls are also quite a bit different than a Strat's: Volume, Master Bass & Master Treble (not Tone controls for 2 pickups). Besides the typical Strat 5-way blade switch, the mini-toggle is to flip her into 'Expanded' mode, which adds 2 more pup combos: bridge & neck or all 3 at once.
Never been gigged out cuz I'm strictly an old fart home-studio player, so she, and her molded hardshell case (G&L's standard case by SKB, included in the MSRP of all USA G&L's) have never been exposed to any smoke, roadies or other bar-wars hazadry. Nary a mark on her or the case. (other than a couple of surface scuffs on the case) Original Certifciate of Authenticity, wrenches and case key will accompany her to her new home.
This good-as-new (no exaggeration here...check out the added photo posts, below) Honey can be yours for $1,350 including shipping to the lower 48 U.S., professionally packed & shipped UPS (or carrier of your choice) by my local GAS Station/G&L Dealer, 90 or so miles inland from Los Angeles) If you prefer to use your own preferred shipper or you're close enough to Hesperia, CA to pick the guitar up, drop the price $50 (guesstimated shipping charge) to $1,300, you handle delivery.
Feel free to pm me with any other questions, for more pics, or to offer. I don't do paypal, and while my dealer could help handle that, I'd have to eat the fees, so a money-order mailed in advance to me helps me lower the price will get her rolling your way.
Thanks.
New pics in natural light:
Last edited by wingsdad; September 20th, 2008 at 05:57 PM.
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AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
Your killing me over here:
"I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to whoever will take it... seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me."
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Hey, Muddy...great to 'see' ya 'round.
Hope you're mending OK, man.
I had my left hand stomped on by a NY club owner's 'enforcer' 30 years ago when we (the band) complained we'd been shorted on the 'gate'. So I've had Les Paul's kinda arm thing ('formed to heal & set in 'playing' position) with my left ring finger and pinky since then, and I figured out how to work with it.
It'll take some time, amigo, but you'll be rippin' up those Strats & such of yours 'fore ya know it...
peace, bro.
Thank you ! To top it off (you started it cause ive been not thinking guitars until seeing that injun) I go to M.F. and spotted my xmas present to me !! (goes with my strat/tele's candy tangerines nicely!!...(almost bought it on the spot but im going to hunt out a perfect piece!)
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/p...Amp?sku=481857
"I love being alive and I will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to whoever will take it... seek knowledge from those wiser and teach those who wish to learn from me."
"Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing."
Duane Skydog Allman
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself." - Evel Knievel
Ever seen or heard of these? Orange Rocker30
Brad Paisley used em (dunno if it was thisparticualr model) for a while til he hooked up wit Dr Z. My local dealer carries them and just got a used one (this model) that came on trade. Didn't bother to check the price, cuz I ain't shoppin'...
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AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
I'm sorry to hear that you have to let some of your favorite instruments go. I hope you get over the hump and in the future re-acquire equivalents to these nice guitars.
I wish you good luck.
Man, that hurts to see you having to give up this beauty and that Tacoma. Feel for ya, bud!
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Geez, I completely missed this one. What are you going to be left with, the ukulele?
Mark
* Loud is good, good is better!
Thanks, aeolian (whaddamoniker...I luv it : ) and 'vood. 'Preciate it.
Not easy. It took me about 12 years of buying, selling, trading upe, etc to get to what I thought was finally a well-rounded arsenal, no real duplication of anything, everything unique. The last piece fell into place with my Custom G&L ASAT Bluesboy in April.
Then life started happening.
Now the collection feels like a selfish, overdone indulgence.
Actually, Strummy, that's on the list of can-live-withouts. I'm going to work the list down from these 2 first. I'm having a tough time figuring which will walk the plank next, but here's what's on my Intend-to-keep-til-bitter-end list, in order of last to go/untouchable at the top:Originally Posted by just strum
Guild D-40
Ovation CS257
Yam 12
STRAT
MM Bass
Rick 12
Bluesboy
Nothing else is untouchable.
What goes next I may decide before these 2 I posted go. Could be an amp. Could be 2 electrics.
Stay tuned.
Last edited by wingsdad; August 27th, 2008 at 07:25 AM.
Will you take an out of state third party bad check?
Patrick
Originally Posted by hubberjub
Gearlist:
Electric: Ibanez 'AS103', Fender Dlx Nash Pwr Tele, Fender Squier '62 JV Strat, Squier '51, Squier 60's Classic Vibe Strat, Epi Elite LP Studio, Hagstrom Swede Acoustic: Larrivee LV-03RE, A&L AMI, Yamaha FG340-T Bass: Yamaha BB 450 Amps: Roland JC-120, JC-50, Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Champ XD Pedals: Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Danelectro Cool Cat Drive, Transparent Overdrive, Digitech Digiverb, Bad Monkey, Ibanez TS-9, Boss AC-2, CE-5, CS-2, DD-3, DF-2, DS-1, FV-100, GE-7, OC-2, PSM-5, SD-1, TU-2, DVM~BYOC 'Lush Puppy' Chorus
Originally Posted by hubberjub
That's so funny I just jacked the prices up to $1,400 each on the Tacoma forum & took the ads for both guitars off the G&LDP. I found out I've underpriced the Comanche.
So...no, but thanks for asking.
I just edited the original post to swap cases with another one of my G&L's tht I'm trying to hang on to but may be on the block (black ASAT Semi-Hollow) so I can drop the price. I also made this change & lowered the price at the Tacoma forum, and will probably re-post this at the G&LDP, but the new price here for fretnetters is/will be lower.
Thanks, all.
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AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
It's only me, again...
This, nor the Tacoma JK28C, isn't on e-bay yet, but they should be in about a week or so once my GAS Station dealer is done with back-to-school rental crush.
To prep for that, I took some natural light pics of some details this past weekend, and here you can have a better look at the neck shape, the action, fretboard condition and a close-up of the bridge & trem.
The guitar is virtually mint. Thanks again for taking a peek.
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AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
Howdy, there, folks...just me again
Well, since putting this guitar up for sale nerly a month ago, I've watched 2 less-dressed USA Comanches go on e-bay. Each went in no more than 7 days. The last one, with no figured or flamed maple body cap, a $400 MSRP upgrade, and no Gun-Oil Tint on the neck, a $200 MSRP Upgrade, had a BIN price of $1,275 and went for a Best Offer accepted of $1,155 -- where I had this one priced until now. The standard molded case is part of the guitar's base MSRP:
scored on e-bay 9-17 for 1155
I've talked it over with my local dealer, whose store has an e-bay store, but who also e-bays vintage or unique pieces on his own, and he feels that if he put it on e-bay for me, he'd put it out with a fairly low minimum bid to get action going, but place the reserve on it at $1,400, since the guitar today, with the upgrades it has, would have an MSRP of about $3,050, and this one, although a 2002, is virtually dead mint.
So I decided to bring my price up here to $1,350. I've taken it off the G&L Discussion Page Market Place and Tacoma Users Forum. I can't get to my dealer's this weekend with it as I'd planned, but it will go there next weekend and with that, to e-bay.
EDIT: Until then, though, I WILL consider an offer from a fellow-fretter for the $1,150 including shipping price I'd had it here at since 8-31. But once it goes to e-bay, I'm pretty certain it will go for at least the reserve amount. That might even be set at $1300. The point is, I'm trying to clear at least $1,100 on this sale, and e-bay's fees will bring it down close to that, unless a winning bid comes in high. There a very few used USA Comanches on the market, even at G&L's largest retail dealer, Buffalo Brothers.
So...here's a few more of the pics I took last weekend for the e-bay posting:
Here's how you find out the precise vintage of a USA G&L; serial numbers on headstocks are only approximate indicators, and tell nothing of true manufacture date, like, say a Gibson's precise serialization scheme:
thanks for your time...
Last edited by wingsdad; September 20th, 2008 at 08:45 PM.
Last chance. If one of y'all Fenderheads doesn't snap this up, it's mine by next weekend.
If I had the cash, Rocket wouldn't have had time or need to post the previous comment. I don't know if it is just a sign of the economy, but if you know G&L, then you have to know this is a deal. I've only known about G&L for a short time and these are the kind of deals I can kick myself for knowing that it has to pass me by.
Mark
* Loud is good, good is better!
I'm not a fenderhead... I don't own a single tele or strat. I know if I buy it I won't play it, it'll just become a part of my closet collection. I'd rather see it go to someone who can use it and appreciate it... but I won't let it pass off to eBay.
Bump for an awesome guitar.
I sooooo wish I had the cash for this one.
tung
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