G&L Wunkay (L-1000) Could this be all original?

[betavision]

I was doing an image search for G&L L-1000's and came across this bass that was posted on the LowEnd forum a while back

http://www.thelowend.net/gallery/vie...7304d04cbc8377

Is there a possibility that this could be all original? Maybe a prototype? Or is this all aftermarket?

Kind of cool looking to me. Bridging the gap between Musicman and Fender.

Makes me wonder if this bass would have sold way better with a pickguard installed?

[kellyrojo]

I'm no gandl aficionado but it looks to me like a pick guard was just slapped on there. And I like it

[betavision]

It makes the Wunkay look so much like a Sabre bass.

[felixxx]

I don't think they ever came with a pick guard and/or pickup cover. It does look cool though.

[TomB]

It's definitely an early one, likely '81 based on the pickup pole pieces and the finish. If by "all-original" you mean the pick guard & pickup cover, then no, but the rest of the bass looks original and is very nice indeed!

[betavision]

Without the pickguard, the L1000 looks so unique. But with this pickguard on, it made me realize that the body is exactly the same as the Sabre bass body.

I wonder if Leo kept the pickguard off because it would cause too much friction with Ernie Ball?

[Rebmo]

I have an 80 with a little different pickguard on it. Like it also. I don't know if I would have added it, but it came with it and did not deter me at all from buying it.

[RandyMolson]

I guess I'm a stick in the mud, but I prefer no PG on the elonekay.

[Lowbrow]

I bought an L-1000 new in '82 and probably 4 times sketched out a template for the pickguard I wanted to have made - a lot like a telecaster or mustang, rounded at the E-string side, following the horn on G-string side, the bottom ended by the p/u like a '51 P. Still have the bass, and glad now that I never had it done.