G&L Custom Shop Legacy HSH in Smoked Caramel over roasted pine, 3-ply parchment guard,
quartersawn 3a flame roasted maple neck with Smoked Caramel Satin finish, Abalone dots.
Built for G&L Premier Dealer Specialty Traders in Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Note: middle pickup is an MFD single coil S-500 pickup.
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SUaPYG wrote:Interesting that they chose to forego the PTB system
Here is a copy of the Specification Sheet:
James said this about the build:
It's an HSH pickup configuration with 1 volume and 1 tone.
I used a super 5-way switch so I can get the humbuckers to autosplit in positions 2 and 4,
in series with the S500 pickup in the center. Nice and quacky but with no hum.
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SUaPYG wrote:Interesting that they chose to forego the PTB system
I chose a more modern wiring style for this particular build. To be honest, the PTB system isn't really something I'm personally super married to myself, so I could take it or leave it. This instrument is utilizing a super-5-way switch so it can auto-split the humbuckers in positions 2 and 4, and run them in series with the middle single-coil to give it a nice jangly tone. I felt like a basic 1-volume, 1-tone setup for the other controls was sufficient here.
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Challenger wrote:Interesting that they used the body sculpting from the Climax.
The body contouring here wasn't technically inspired by any other G&L instruments. It's just a more modern way to give upper register access a bit more comfort, something that's been done by dozens of builders and companies over the last couple decades, and it's something I was doing on my own builds over the last 15 years before coming to G&L. Johnny and Dave McLaren both mentioned they liked the look and feel of those contours, and so I chose to do that on this instrument as an example so we could make it an option on custom shop orders moving forward.
SUaPYG wrote:Interesting that they chose to forego the PTB system
I chose a more modern wiring style for this particular build. To be honest, the PTB system isn't really something I'm personally super married to myself, so I could take it or leave it. This instrument is utilizing a super-5-way switch so it can auto-split the humbuckers in positions 2 and 4, and run them in series with the middle single-coil to give it a nice jangly tone. I felt like a basic 1-volume, 1-tone setup for the other controls was sufficient here.
