G&L Tribute GLS Ascari Trans Red Rw Electric Guitar

    

▷▷▷ G&L Tribute GLS Ascari Trans Red Rw Electric Guitar

    

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• G&L was Leo Fender's contemporary vision of what electric guitars and basses could be. His unlimited creativity and passion shaped contemporary music, a man whose instruments broke traditions and established new ones. At G&L, he continued to press onward with innovative designs, refining concepts he pioneered decades before while immersing himself in developments occurring throughout the guitar and bass industry.
• tarting from Leo's G-100 concept, Gagon and Jackson gave themselves the freedom to create an instrument that would appeal to a broad range of serious guitarists. They worked nonstop on the computer-aided design to form the subtle, appealing arcs and contours of the Ascari's balanced body shape and slinky D-profile neck.  Whenever G&L creates a new guitar, it asks itself, "Would Leo have wanted it this way?"
• As for the headstock, when it's your inaugural "three-by-three," you don't want to mess it up, and G&L didn't. The beautiful headstock shape is closely modeled on Leo's original design, and the art-deco headstock motif required more than 20 revisions before the design team was happy.  The Ascari's offset double cutaways will be familiar to fans of double-cut dual-humbucker guitars in general, and G&L fans will note the influence of Leo's classic F-100 and G-200 dual-humbucker models, too. But when you combine all the elements, including a flamed maple veneer top and knurled knobs, you get a guitar that stakes out its own territory. Same with the Fiorano. The family resemblance to the Ascari is there, but the Fiorano's body shouts aggressiveness in a way matched only by three generations of Leo's Interceptor rock machine, particularly the later models. And it's got a slimmer, 24-fret neck with a longer 25½" scale - ideal for brutal riffing and detuned/drop-tuned heaviness.
• Which brings up Tone.  Pickups are the heart of a guitar, and for the Ascari and Fiorano, G&L did what the company's been doing for three decades: design and spec them from scratch. Electronics is one of Gagon's specialties at G&L, and he spent weeks on these alnicos, winding and evaluating the tones of different wire gauges, turns per bobbin, magnet strengths and pickup placement.  The results are a bridge pickup that's fat and aggressive and a neck pickup that recalls the best traditional PAF. The Ascari's pickups have chrome covers to suit its sonic and visual vibe, and they're so well potted that you can nestle up to a Marshall 50-watt with a 20db boost pedal dimed and not hear a squeal. The Fiorano's pickups are uncovered for punch.  Care has been taken everywhere else, as well. The Tone-Pros locking stopbar tailpiece is solid and full of sustain. On each guitar, both pickups are tappable via the push-pull tone knob. The Ascari's neck joint will be familiar to 24¾" dual-humbucker guitar fans, and the Fiorano's has a sculpted heel for even more agility up the neck.  The result: two versatile, high-performance guitars that do everything their pedigree and appearance promise, and more.
• Don't ignore the Names.  Leo Fender loved naming his creations. So G&L took pains to find the right names for these ambitious guitars. The Ascari is named after a Formula 1 racetrack in Italy, "a battleground where sophisticated, ultra-high-performance machines created by intensely passionate people are pushed to their limits by the most talented drivers on earth," explains Dave McLaren, G&L's executive vice president. Fiorano is the name of the curvaceous test track of Italy's most renowned supercar maker.  The names befit the guitars they grace: the Ascari and the Fiorano tap into G&L's deep history of passion, innovation and full-throttle rock, exemplified in Leo Fender's own G&L designs, in the Rampage played and endorsed by Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains - and now in the newest G&L guitars, the Ascari and the Fiorano.  Whenever G&L creates a new guitar, it asks itself, "Would Leo have wanted it this way?" In the Ascari and the Fiorano, the G&L team is certain the answer is yes. See and hear for yourself at your authorized dealer.  The Ascari: Born of History, Entirely New.  G&L's done something special: We've created an instrument that's steeped in guitar history yet strikingly new - The Ascari, the newest member of G&L's Tribute Series.  It was inspired by a recently uncovered prototype drawing done three decades ago by G&L co-founder George Fullerton, representing Leo Fender's vision for G&L's first 24¾" scale, three-tuners-to-a-side guitar. It was designed jointly by G&L's longtime VP of engineering,Paul Gargon, and his close friend and former collaborator, Grover Jackson, founder of Jackson Guitars. Its DNA is full of rock guitar history.  Yet it breaks new ground for G&L: it has a set neck, a Leo-inspired headstock with three tuners to a side, and a 24¾" scale to put it squarely on the classic side of the rock'n'roll stage.  Add in a Tone-Pros tailpiece and tappable humbuckers specially designed by Gagon right here on Fender Avenue, and you have a gorge

    

Product Description

  CONSTRUCTION: set-neck
     SCALE: 24 3/4"
     PICKUPS: G&L AS4255C in neck position, G&L AW4368C in bridge position; designed by Paul Gagon
     BODY WOOD: Mahogany with Flame Maple top
     NECK WOOD: Mahogany with Rosewood fingerboard
     NECK RADIUS: 12"
     FRETS: 22 medium jumbo
     NECK WIDTH AT NUT: 1 11/16"
     NECK PROFILE: modern slim C
     NECK INLAY: pearl trapezoid
     BRIDGE: Tone-Pros locking C-TPFP bridge and CT1 tailpiece
     CONTROLS: 3 position pickup selector, volume, tone with push/pull coil tap
     FINISH: Trans Red or Trans Black, bound body and neck
     OTHER: Deluxe G&L gig bag included (US only)
 

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