G&L Tribute S-500 Guitar (Blueburst, Hard Rock Maple Neck) Review

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(More customer reviews)never mind all of the cheeseball stuff out there
everything about this guitar is very strong
except of course the gig bag.
you might want a solid case to hold this top of the line guitar
if only Jimi had lived to see one . . .
I am having a lot of heart-curing holding mine.
just found one in a pawn shop and even though I knew better, could not walk away
came back
I used to sit in the guitar shop loving a G&L F-1000 back when they first came out maybe a quarter century ago; and it was beautiful and truly a sound, like an oak tree crying. Biggest thing I had ever bought, I put it on lay-away at the shop. When I got the rest of my pennies together and went back for it, they had sold it to someone else, and told me to take some pedals instead.
I wanted my guitar, and felt stolen and scammed, but too shy to complain, and took a few pedals to match what I had already put down.
But I always just wanted my G&L . . .
You, see, the way I heard it, Leo Fender, the one who started it all with the Strat and the Tele, he got tossed when some major corporation took over his little guitar company, and cheapened his guitars, real cheesey.
So he went out and started G&L and IMPROVED his already great classic electric guitars.
Like putting a whammy bar system in here which RETURNS TO TUNE AND TO PITCH.
Instead of finding the strings all over the place when you return from that shimmy, all the strings are still in tune, together, and on pitch.
I find all of the necks on electric guitars TOO THIN
except this one.
I am used to playing classic nylon string guitars, usually Yamahas like the Yamaha C40 Full Size Nylon-String Classical Guitar, although not that model, and electric stuff feels way too thin. I have to watch where I am putting my fingers and where I am plucking on an electric neck.
Not on this neck, which feels thicker than other electrics, which to me need pixie fingers to play.
This neck is very solid and will not warp, not on its own anyway.
The frets are really thick and solid too, not cheap, and the machine heads are really solid.
This box gest the job done, all around. The body is so heavy you might wnat to sit down, which helps gives it the solid sound and long sustain.
It is the highest point of a lost civilization which never really came into being.
Need a strat, for ANY reason (and who doesn't, really?)
Have a hidden guitar hero you really love and want to make whole?
get this.
and it is Deep Blue
for your deepest blues
mine too
at long last
long time coming
sweet guitar


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The G&L TRIBUTE SERIES S500 is one of the orginal designs for which G&L's founder is world renowned.This fine Double Cutaway instrument features a Hard Rock Maple neck with Fully Enclosed, 18:1 ratio, Tuning Machines and a Maple fingerboard mounted to a Solid Ash body with a rich BlueBurst finish and a Pearl pickguard.It comes equipped with 3 Patented, USA Made, G&L Magnetic Field Design (MFD) single coil pickups controlled by the Patented G&L Passive Treble/Bass (PTB) system which includes a single Volume Control combined with separate Treble and Bass Controls and a 5 Position Pickup Selector Switch.In addition, the Treble Control includes a Push/Pull Switch allowing for additional pickup combinations including ALL THREE ON and NECK/BRIDGE ON.Hardware includes a Patented G&L Dual Fulcrum Vibrato which pivots on two hardened posts for perfect return to pitch and maximum sustain.G&L Deluxe Gig Bag included.

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