Product: G&L Interceptor
Price Paid: Malaysian Ringgit 2800
Submitted
08/02/1998
at
08:43pm
by
Steve Kellett
Email: steve_kellett<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
8
Made: 1988, Fullerton, Ca.
22 medium fret maple neck with an unstained veneer-type ebony fingerboard, vintage-like C profile and 12" fretboard radius.
The guitar has the sickle shaped headstock finished in the same off-white as the body.
The body shape is pointy superstrat with chamfered edges and no contours, there is no scratchplate.
It's fitted with two black exposed coil MFD humbuckers which go through a master volume and two tones (one high freq cut, one low freq cut) and a mini-toggle switch to select front, back or both. All controls are rear mounted.
The bridge is a Leo Fender vibrato tailpiece with fine tuners and mounting points for the push-in whammy arm are provided both above and below the bridge.
Spinning the guitar over we find black crinkle finish metal covers for the spring and wiring cavities, and a three bolt neck joint, again with a black crinkle finish on the neck plate.
The tuners are G&L branded non-locking types, and the nut is a plastic vintage strat/tele style unit.
Sound
:
10
The MFD humbuckers are high output and push the amp harder than those of my Les Paul Classic "1960". Their output is quite well rounded and bell-like on clean settings, and in distortion mode thay stay well defined. No buzz-saw mush here.
The two-tone circuit gives me the option of getting that "half cocked wah pedal" sound without a pedal in site.
I've so far only tried this guitar through my Fender Pro Jr and Danelectro Daddy-O combination, using the same settings as I use to get bluesy sounds out of my Tele. The difference with this guitar on the same settings is pretty astounding!
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
All routing and fit is fine. I can't comment on the set-up because this guitar was NOS, and had been traded between at least two different music stores in the ten years between it leaving the factory and coming into my posession!
Reliability/Durability
:
No Opinion
Solid as a rock.
Never gig without a backup!
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Well, there's a couple of bit's gone astray over the years, a fine tuner knob and the whammy bar. I'll see if G&L live up to their reputation of being extremely helpful in this case!
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Playing 25 years, 13 other guitars, three amps.
I bought this because I knew that it was a discontinued line and pretty unusual. I discovered after purchase that, in this particular pickup configuration, it is a very rare guitar indeed.
