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G&L Bass

#61
Love mine!
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ezstep said:
I have owned two. Both extremely good basses. Very solid. Lots of "playability," tones, versatility. I have thinned my herd down to only three, so I have no G&L's right now. I did contact them about a lefty Kiloton, but they are not available. When they become available, I will likely get one.
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I'm pretty sure a lefty Kiloton has been available for a couple of years now (but not the Kiloton 5).

Here's one available at Adirondack:
Left Handed G&L Kiloton Bass

If I was after one of those, I would do a custom order with Greg at Rocket Music.
 
#65
Kmonk said:
I’ve owned a couple of G & L basses. Great sound but I didn’t like the necks. A little too chunky for me.
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It is the "chunky" necks that I really love about my G&L. It's getting so I really don't think much of my Fender Jazz neck (though still love the P-bass neck).

Since everyone is putting their G&L herds on display I might as well do it too (again!) Natural is my Tribby (first G&L) other two are USA fretted and fretless. All are basically to die for. Custom pickguards are held on with double sided tape and are removable and swappable. Currently Tribby has a Tort guard (thanks to TB informing me that natural goes best with Tort) and USAs now have matching blue swirly.

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PS. Extra "thing" between two switches on Tribby is now a pilot light. It indicates Phantom 9v power over TRS cable. Formerly it was a switch that in "K-mod" single coil mode allowed you to choose between "inside" and "outside" coils. But I found I was always using "outside" so I changed to an LED for power and took the switch out. Of course beauty of G&L is that without power you just flip to passive and it plays completely normal with EQ and the rest not quitting. As for other two, I try to make an effort not to drill holes in my expensive basses!
 
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bassbenj said:
It is the "chunky" necks that I really love about my G&L. It's getting so I really don't think much of my Fender Jazz neck (though still love the P-bass neck).

Since everyone is putting their G&L herds on display I might as well do it too (again!) Natural is my Tribby (first G&L) other two are USA fretted and fretless. All are basically to die for. Custom pickguards are held on with double sided tape and are removable and swappable. Currently Tribby has a Tort guard (thanks to TB informing me that natural goes best with Tort) and USAs now have matching blue swirly.

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PS. Extra "thing" between two switches on Tribby is now a pilot light. It indicates Phantom 9v power over TRS cable. Formerly it was a switch that in "K-mod" single coil mode allowed you to choose between "inside" and "outside" coils. But I found I was always using "outside" so I changed to an LED for power and took the switch out. Of course beauty of G&L is that without power you just flip to passive and it plays completely normal with EQ and the rest not quitting. As for other two, I try to make an effort not to drill holes in my expensive basses!
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I'm the exact opposite. I play my Jazz bass more often because I like the slimmer neck.
 
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bassbenj said:
It is the "chunky" necks that I really love about my G&L. It's getting so I really don't think much of my Fender Jazz neck (though still love the P-bass neck).

Since everyone is putting their G&L herds on display I might as well do it too (again!) Natural is my Tribby (first G&L) other two are USA fretted and fretless. All are basically to die for. Custom pickguards are held on with double sided tape and are removable and swappable. Currently Tribby has a Tort guard (thanks to TB informing me that natural goes best with Tort) and USAs now have matching blue swirly.
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@bassbenj Where did you get those pickguards made????...they are excellent looking !!!!
 
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Pictured is my 94 G&L LB-100. When I got it I also had a USA Fender P Bass and a very nice Sandberg California P Bass.

They are gone now as I preferred the feel and tone of the G&L. In saying that, the previous owner added the EMGs and bridge pickup so I'm not sure what it would have sounded like stock.
 
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tommyr01 said:
@bassbenj Where did you get those pickguards made????...they are excellent looking !!!!
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Japanese L2000s. Good luck trying to find one for a 4-string instead of the 5-string ones that they use on most 4-string basses.
The proper ones do exist so I can't understand why they do this.
Looks good on the 5-string models, of course, but I just can't go with that unnecessary space around the 4-string L2000 pickup. Sticks out like a sore thumb.

I've been trying to find one of them for over a year with no luck.

G&L L-2000 Pickguard templates

That's why I had a custom one made.
 
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tommyr01 said:
@bassbenj Where did you get those pickguards made????...they are excellent looking !!!!
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I drew a design and cut it out of cardboard And made sure it fit my basses and hauled it to Pickguardian.com. So far Tony has made about 5 or so for me. He has a template made for them but it's only for my L2500 not an L2000 and he'll warn you that they were made to fit my basses and may not fit yours (if pickups are slightly moved etc.) Someone else also did a design slightly different from mine and sent it to a different custom pickguard place with equally excellent result. There is a thread about it somewhere here on TB.
 
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bassbenj said:
I drew a design and cut it out of cardboard And made sure it fit my basses and hauled it to Pickguardian.com. So far Tony has made about 5 or so for me. He has a template made for them but it's only for my L2500 not an L2000 and he'll warn you that they were made to fit my basses and may not fit yours (if pickups are slightly moved etc.) Someone else also did a design slightly different from mine and sent it to a different custom pickguard place with equally excellent result. There is a thread about it somewhere here on TB.
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Excellent, I have an L2500 I have wanted a PG for....I'll contact them, thank you !
 

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