1981 G&L F - 100 Series - I Mahogany

Offered for sale:

Vintage 1981 G&L F-100 Series-I serial number G003341.

This guitar is in good to very good condition, neck and frets are fine, cosmetically there are numerous nicks and marks about the body, some through the finish, and a small ding on the back of the neck. There are marks on either side of the neck near the headstock, these are not burn marks, back in the '80s there were a few guitar stand and guitar hanger makers that used a rubber which reacted with the lacquer finish on some guitars. That is what you are seeing here. Beyond the discoloration the finish has not been damaged or softened.

Overall, this guitar is showing playing time and average wear for its age.

The G&L F-100 was based on Leo Fender’s Music Man Sabre guitar. Leo ended his relationship with Music Man 1979 and formed G&L. In an effort to produce instruments quickly, he refined the basic Sabre design and birthed the F-100 in mid-1980.

The F-100 featured two humbucking pickups, the very first guitar pickups employing Leo's new proprietary Magnetic Field Design technology with two rows of adjustable hexagon-shaped polepieces and ceramic magnets. It also featured G&L’s own Dual Fulcrum Vibrato bridge (which inspired Fender Guitars, in the late ‘80s, to update their vibrato system that they had been using since Leo invented the Strat in 1954).

The control layout features a master volume control, master tone control, bass control, phase switch and a coil split switch. When the phase switch is in the out of phase position (towards the nut), it overrides the pickup selector and both pickups are on. This also reduces bass content.
When the lead pickup is engaged and the guitar is “in-phase”, the treble control does not function. These are all factory designs and original to the guitar.

The coil split actually isn’t a coil split at all. That would no longer buck the hum. Leo developed a filtering system which caused the humbucker to sound like a single coil. (which just recently inspired Yamaha Guitars, on their RevStar series, to update their single coil sound by filtering their humbuckers).

This guitar is a great piece of Leo’s legacy, worthy of consideration.

Hard-shell case included.

“We carefully inspect every instrument when we buy it and bring it up to our standards before we offer it for sale. We also do a full set up before we ship. If you decide to purchase this guitar, please let us know what gauge strings you prefer.”

GUITAR SPECS:

Year: 1981

Serial number: G003341

Body: Mahogany

Neck: Maple

Finish: Sunburst

Fingerboard: Maple

Scale Length: 25 ½”

Number of Frets: 22 nickel silver

Bridge: G&L Dual Fulcrum Vibrato

Tuners: Schaller, enclosed, nickel

Pickups: Two, G&L Magnetic Field Design humbucking with adjustable pole pieces

Controls: Volume, treble, bass, 3-way pickup selector, pickup coil splitter, phase switch

Width at Nut: 1 5/8”

Radius: 12”

Weight: 8.6 lbs.

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