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Dean Coy says "This guitar started from parts (leftover or
rejected?) at the factory during one of my visits on web site business.
David McLaren let me select this body from an area in the factory where
the bodies are stacked like cordwood and covered in many layers of
polishing dust. Why this beautiful ASAT Deluxe body was there I don't
know. The neck has an obvious cosmetic flaw (look at the first fret)
that would have made it a hard sell in the real world, but it never made
it out of the factory. Not owning an Asat Deluxe was one of the reasons
I wanted this "Les Paully" guitar but I wanted to make it with all G&L
parts, using Leo's real humbucker pick-ups from a parted out F-100. I
had had these pick-ups previously installed in one of my test bed G&L's
and liked what I heard. No tone dropping switches, just a 3 way with volume
and tone knob.
G&L master craftsman, Gene, took the raw finished neck and in five
minutes of hand sanding and polishing had it smooth as glass. I was
impressed and asked Gene to assemble the rest of the guitar for me,
which he did over the period of several months. When I received the
guitar and open the case I was blow away by this beauty confronting my
eyes. And after playing it I was was convinced that my idea was good
one. How does it sound, well Leo's humbuckers have a lighter bottom end
than a standard HB and more of what you would come to expect out of his
pick-up designs, with a nice full mid-range and ballsy highs. I heard
that my creation raised some eyes at the factory and was thoroughly test
out by a few of the staff there. Hopefully this may spark the return of
the fine F-100 Humbucker pick-ups in some new G&L creation."
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