
About a week and a half ago a 1994 USA G&L Legacy was listed on Craigslist. The seller didn't know much about it other than he bought it about 12 years prior and hasn't played it much. It includes tremolo bar, manual, and original hardshell case.
When I took a look in person I found that the body and visible hardware were in reasonably good shape, given the age. The strings felt old and dry. I would guess they hadn't been changed in at least 5 years, likely more. The fret wear was mostly a couple of frets and minor enough that I figured it wouldn't yet affect the intonation. For some reason the tremolo didn't move. I noticed it was flush with the body so I figured I could float it and get back to normal. The biggest problem I could see was the tarnish on the bridge components and a couple of rusted springs, but they moved just fine.
After I got it home I restrung it as I wanted to get a feel for the sound. It sounded okay, but for some reason it felt like absolute garbage, the strings were better, but the frets were stained and the rosewood fretboard was extremely dry. I decided to do a full setup. With the cover off I could see the reason for the lack of tremolo movement:

Somebody has obviously done some work on this instrument. This tremolo blocked was wedged in super tight so it took a lot of time carefully tapping the pieces out with a rubber mallet. I adjusted the bridge to be about correct and already it looked better.
Then I polished the frets, many of which were stained brownish and had felt gritty when playing. After that I cleaned and oiled (and re-oiled, and re-oiled) the fretboard. The photos don't do justice the night and day difference to the color of the rosewood.
Before:

After:

Last thing before I perform the setup was to take a look at the electronics. There's a little flakiness with the 4 position on the pickup selector where it doesn't connect to the middle pickup unless you push it to one side.
Anyway, once I got it open, I found another surprise:

Okay, so Lollar Blonde pickups in the neck and middle, and a Lollar Special in the bridge. Unfortunately, whomever installed these also switched the bass tone knob into a bridge treble knob that doesn't do anything until about 3/10. It's practically useless.
I'm fairly certain these modifications occurred before the previous owner bought it because he clearly had no idea about any of them.
I threw on some Ernie Ball 10-46s and proceeded to go through the setup process outlined in the manual. The truss rod was already perfect so I didn't need to adjust it, thankfully. The only thing of note is that the micro-tilt adjustment was not engaged, as if the last person to set it up had entirely disengaged it.
Once properly set up it played like a dream. None of that dryness from the fretboard, either. I plugged in and jammed for longer than I meant to. The Lollars sound good, but in the end they're not for me.
More photos can be found here.