G&L USA ASAT Classic Alnico Guitar, Flame Maple, Old School Tobacco Burst

This is a true throwback to the original Leo Fender guitar. And in true G&L fashion, they continue to champion his legacy and his work. This one's got a beautiful flame maple top on it to really set it apart from other ASATs out there. Combine that with the stellar build quality and this really is a guitar that you can play, in comfort, all night long!

A modern take on a classic design, this beauty has vintage tone with construction and playability that really embodies the evolution of this design. The comfort of smooth and silky playability is emphasized by the lightweight body and incredible fretwork. The tone is bright and snappy and gives you all of that tele twang we all know and love.

A simple, classy, but yet sophisticated build that will always withstand the test of time, this ASAT checks all the boxes and is dressed to impress.

While the G&L ASAT® Classic is Leo’s final word on the traditional single-cutaway bolt-on axe with its Magnetic Field Design single-coil pickups, the new ASAT Classic Alnico has arrived to blend latter-day-Leo with uncompromising Alnico sonic flavor. Framed in a classic boxed-steel bridge, the single-coil Alnico V bridge pickup belts out meaty twang that that’ll stop you in your tracks, while individual brass saddles Leo upgraded for the ASAT Classic offer modern levels of intonation refinement. Flip to the Alnico V neck pickup and you’ll discover our spec offers a fuller tone that leaves those anemic old pickups in the dust. What’s more, the two pickups pair beautifully for an exceptionally sweet, jangly tone bursting with harmonics.

These Alnico wonders aren’t just another flavor-of-the-week, having been carefully refined by G&L’s Paul Gagon for personal guitars since the late 1970s. Back then, Gagon was an R&D engineer at another company when he was tasked with finding out what was so special about the early bolt-on guitars many players raved about. Gagon analyzed many examples of what were considered “holy grail” guitars, spending time out on the shop floor talking to builders still working in the pickup department since the ‘50s, all on a quest to discover where the real mojo was – and wasn’t. What he learned from the builders matched his own engineering analysis. You see, back in the day, the actual spec of pickups coming that down that old production line varied considerably. Moreover, that nagging imbalance between bridge and neck pickup was something he longed to improve on, and today, Gagon’s preferred pairing of Alnico V pickups has arrived to delight the ears of the discerning guitarists.