Anyone seen new G&L w/new neck + truss rod design

[chiplexic]

G&L no longer uses the Bi-cut neck manufacturing design. It uses a more traditional design now. Also they have a new truss rod system. And they are using all new manufacturing equipment for improved quality. Has anyone seen a very latest G&L bass that displays these features. How's the build quality??

[sunbeast]

My new-ish SB-2 has the new neck design. It feels better than any older G&Ls I've ever played in stores (alot of that may be the Jazz profile neck and personalized action though). It also gets really low action, the lowest I've had on a bass with bolt-on neck (and without the need for a micro-tilt). It looks flawless as well.

Karl

[Nedmundo]

My L-1500 with #8 neck has the new design. It feels similar to the older necks, but has an unusually thick slab of maple for the fretboard. The playability is amazing, but unfortunately the truss rod rattles a little at the headstock. If I can't cure it with a tweak -- as I did once before -- it might need to go in for a fix.

[MAJOR METAL]

god I hope they get it right this time on my bass.

[Nedmundo]

Originally Posted by MAJOR METAL

god I hope they get it right this time on my bass.

I know how you feel! I hope yours is perfect next time around.

[Joebone]

I have the #8 neck, ebony board, w/ the quarter-sawn slab of maple attached to an L-2000.

This sucker sounds really good; I'm loving the degree of vibration through the neck, and the action is set quite low w/o undue buzz on the high frets, which I use quite a bit, so long as I keep my touch light. Compared with other G&L's I've played, there is a real feeling that exceptional effort has been made to join the frets, board and neck into a a solid unit, with a solid joint in turn at the body.

But all is not sweetness and light. My ebony board seems still to be settling in or shrinking - my guitar tech tells me that what I'd thought of as rough fret edges are actually the fret edges lifting out of the wood as the wood shrinks, exacerbating the frets' natural tendency to spring back to their original state of flatness. I plan to address this issue with him after giving the board another 4-6 months to hopefully stabilize (took delivery of item in January, and having purchased from east-coast dealer, and am assuming that regional humidity/temperature differential may have something to do with this).

I really do hope this settles out - I've tried out some fancy basses over the past period, but have concluded that this particular L2000 is a great axe, and a superb value for the money - if I didn't have a Jones for 24 frets, I'd sell everything else and make this and an L-2500 my one-and-onlies, assuming the fretboard settles down.

[flash99]

Joe,

I think you bought that bass from me. Fret edges sticking out are very common on fretted instruments when they are relatively new and a little more so with ebony fingerboards as ebony and maple expand and contract at different rates (I believe we discussed that when you bought the bass). It generally just requires a fret file which should be included as part of a setup (though some shops charge extra, which I don't think is right). You may have to have this done 1-2 times over the first year or two on a new instrument but after that it should be relatively rare. An again, I will cover the cost of the first one as we discussed.