Does anyone know what the upcharge is for a roasted maple neck, roasted maple with ebony fingerboard, and/or roasted maple with pau ferro or rosewood?
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G&L Pricing
- Thread starter RocketMusic
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A roasted maple neck is only available through the Custom Shop. It's $357 List / $250 Internet. An Ebony board would add $215 MSRP / $150 Internet. An Indian RW board add $72 MSRP / $50 Internet, and Caribbean RW is free.
I recently got a G&L Matador with roasted maple neck and fingerboard, and I love the neck!
It sounds as good as it looks too! Greg is getting me another one with a rosewood board and MFDs instead of the alnicos.
ChaimOrtiz
Commercial User
I think I understand after taking a closer look what Rocket Music was showing on the price list
I don't understand your hi-fi comment, but I'll say up front that my Matador sounds absolutely great! I play it with the knobs all wide open, so I had to go back and check how versatile it is.
-The neck pickup sounds exactly like a P, or an LB-100 - wonderful to me.
-The bridge pickup sounds like a cross between a P and a bridge J pickup - it has that nasal, cutting bridge tone but with a great P pickup fullness in the mids
-Both pickups together sounds really amazing, like a P bass but more full and open - like the difference between mono and stereo!
-The switch is to choose between series (awesome) and parallel (thin and weak) on the neck pickup only, it stays on series.
So while it's really wonderful and I love the sound I don't know that it's particularly versatile, nothing like an L-2000 for sure. If you like several obviously different P sounds then you might really love it like I do. If you think a Jazz bass is versatile then this would be as well.
Another thing to point out is the bass sounds great with no tone knob use, some basses have excess highs and I have to roll off the tone knob to tame the fret noise and clack, this sounds really smooth and full and I don't need the tone knob at all - with a pick or fingerstyle.
G&L has proven once again that they know what they are doing!!
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
I looked for this in the website and didn’t see it. Is that a full on custom? SB or LB body?
It has only showed up on their Facebook Custom Shop page for some odd reason. Here's an older TB thread with some video links:
G&L Matador Bass
It's a standard model but made only by the Custom Shop, looks like an L series body to me.
G&L just announced their 2022 price increase. I haven't looked at the details yet, but they did say it is effective immediately.
There is a grace period until May 1st where dealers can still advertise CLF basses at the old prices. But to buy new CLF basses, a dealer would pay the new prices. The long & short is that I suggest you pull the trigger on a CLF bass if you find one at the current price. I don't have any in stock, so I can't help other than offer that advice.
Any quotes I have out there in the wild are now null and void, I'll need to requote using these new prices.
I'll also update the details in the first post in this thread later this afternoon.
There is a grace period until May 1st where dealers can still advertise CLF basses at the old prices. But to buy new CLF basses, a dealer would pay the new prices. The long & short is that I suggest you pull the trigger on a CLF bass if you find one at the current price. I don't have any in stock, so I can't help other than offer that advice.
Any quotes I have out there in the wild are now null and void, I'll need to requote using these new prices.
I'll also update the details in the first post in this thread later this afternoon.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the new prices will be arranged.
Up to now, a single pickup, 4-string bass has been typically advertised at $1400 — 70% of the MRSP of $2000
It has cost another $100 (again 70% of MRSP) to add each of these —
• a 2nd pickup
• a 5th string
• a series/parallel switch
• an active/passive option
So up to now the...
• LB-100 and SB-1 are $1,400
• Kiloton (+switch) is $1,500
• JB and SB-2 (+pickup) are $1,500
• Kiloton 5 (+switch+string) is $1,600
• JB-5 (+pickup+string) is $1,600
• L-2000 (+pickup+switch+active) is $1,700
• L-2500 (+pickup+switch+active+string) is $1,800
Will be interesting to see where the big price rise will come — in the basic cost, in the extra specs, or both.
The options have also been in tiers too, for example —
• $50 for tort etc / basswood / different radius / different nut width / indian rosewood
• $100 for empress / swamp ash / quartersawn neck / satin tint neck / fretless
• $150 for gloss tint neck / matching headstock / ebony
Up to now, a single pickup, 4-string bass has been typically advertised at $1400 — 70% of the MRSP of $2000
It has cost another $100 (again 70% of MRSP) to add each of these —
• a 2nd pickup
• a 5th string
• a series/parallel switch
• an active/passive option
So up to now the...
• LB-100 and SB-1 are $1,400
• Kiloton (+switch) is $1,500
• JB and SB-2 (+pickup) are $1,500
• Kiloton 5 (+switch+string) is $1,600
• JB-5 (+pickup+string) is $1,600
• L-2000 (+pickup+switch+active) is $1,700
• L-2500 (+pickup+switch+active+string) is $1,800
Will be interesting to see where the big price rise will come — in the basic cost, in the extra specs, or both.
The options have also been in tiers too, for example —
• $50 for tort etc / basswood / different radius / different nut width / indian rosewood
• $100 for empress / swamp ash / quartersawn neck / satin tint neck / fretless
• $150 for gloss tint neck / matching headstock / ebony
Post #1 in this thread has now been updated to reflect the new G&L "Build To Order" (formerly known as "Option Order") pricing as of March 2022.
It's under the neck options, and it's $59 now. And FWIW - it says "No model logo will appear. Guitar and 4-string basses only."
EDIT - I would also just add that there's no more MSRP. The price is just the price now.
Prices rose almost $500?! How long can this go on until everything just implodes. No pun intended.
Oooo - I just noticed another change that G&L slipped in with the new price list. The 1 5/8" nut width and 9.5 radius are now the default neck profile for all 4-string bass models other than the ASAT Bass and the JB.
In the past, the 1 1/2" nut was default on some models (SB-2) and 1 5/8" was default on other models (SB-1, LB-100, etc.). Now they all come with the 1 5/8" nut by default (other than ASAT Bass and JB).
In the past, the 1 1/2" nut was default on some models (SB-2) and 1 5/8" was default on other models (SB-1, LB-100, etc.). Now they all come with the 1 5/8" nut by default (other than ASAT Bass and JB).
