new tribute headstock

[Wwolof]

I've had all the vintage Fenders (61 P, 67 J, etcetry) and I love my Trib L2K best of all. It sounds absolutely *slamming*.

[Kompressaur]

I just picked up a natural ash/maple Tribute L2K over the weekend. It has the G&L logo with smaller "tribute series" legend underneath. The bridge says Tribute. and the serial no. is 05088208.No declaration/label of country of origin I can see.Not that it matters but is it Korean or Indonesian?

I dressed the fret ends on both edges of the board and rolled them over a little and now it feels 1st class. apart from the rather soulless way the neck/headstock volute isn't blended in but rather straight cut I absolutley love the fit and finish. It really is a stunning piece for the money I paid here in the UK. I'm after a JB-2 and I may just now order a Tribby one from from Nitrotone as I'm very very pleasantly surprised at the build quality of these things.

I've a USA G&L lovely on the way to me this week so I'll post up pics of the herd next weekend.

cheers

Komp


edit : aargghh! no sunburst/rosewood option on the JB-2

[Thunder Pulse]

Originally Posted by Kompressaur

Not that it matters but is it Korean or Indonesian?

If the headstock logo says "G&L" in black it's Korean. If it's in white it's a newer Indonesian model.

[realdeal]

Originally Posted by dgce

Bang for buck, Tributes are one of the best deals going. You won't get matching headstocks or natural wood bindings; but you get a kick-butt workhorse that does nail the G&L tone and feel as far as I can tell. Hell, they're using the same pickups and ash bodies (well, for premium models). The fancy domestic options are really just gravy (albeit is, pretty snazzy gravy!). I'd love to eventually have a domestic L2500 with gun-oil Birdseye maple neck and board, with see-thru white finish with matching headstock. However, blowing the kind of cash that it would take to get a beauty like that for me right now would flat out be stupid when I can get a Tribute for a fraction of the price. Now down the road when a certain student loan is paid up and I'm scoring more happening gigs, then we'll talk about buying my dream G&L. But for now I think a Tribute more than fits the bill (unless I get pretty damn lucky and score a domestic L2500 on eBay on the cheap!).

r

Well put!!
Ok, so it's a 4-string ASAT (cooler) w/out a matching HS...
but it is blonde, w/ TNG, natural wood binding, and BE 'board, no dots.
Like to show it; love to play it!

[p0k]

is korean better quality than indonesian or are they about the same?

Originally Posted by Thunder Pulse

If the headstock logo says "G&L" in black it's Korean. If it's in white it's a newer Indonesian model.

[El_JimBob]

The Korean models had the 'black' logo, and later the 'white' one for a short time - they had a sticker on the back saying 'made in korea'.
The Indonesian models have the same 'white' logo but with a 'made in indonesia' stamp on the back.
Kompressaur's sounds like a Korean. There is no difference between the two - Cort, who build them, just happened to move most of their guitar building to Indonesia in the past year or so....