My guitar collection - G&L

 
 

Tim and Bob Page are the founders and previous owners of Buffalo Brothers in Carlsbad, CA. As a hobby, Tim loves to design guitars. His 3 prior Special Edition models were released in 1999. This model, released in 2006, is his 4th for G&L involving the collaboration between many: Tim, G&L historians Gabe Dellevigne and Greg Gagliano, G&L employees Efrain Meraz and John Salcido, and the “G” in G&L, George Fullerton. The ASAT Trinity model name could well refer to the presence of 3 Jumbo Magnetic Field Design (MFD) pickups, like the ASAT S-3, but in this case the middle pickup is a Reverse Wound/Reverse Polarity version. These are set in a semi-hollow soft maple body without f-holes in a Vintage White finish accentuated by darkened wood top binding. It further has a Saddle-Lock bridge, surplus tortoise ASAT S-3 pickguard, and a wiring harness consisting of a 5-position pickup selector, push-pull volume control, providing the otherwise missing pickup combinations, and tone control. Out of the 8 possibilities for neck profile/fingerboard combinations offered, this guitar has a gun-oil tinted hard-rock maple #1 neck with matching 12” maple fingerboard, 1⅝” nut, and Sperzel closed tuning machines. About half of all the Trinity guitars got the new non-compression truss rod neck with PLEK treatment instead of the Bi-Cut neck. Like Bob Page’s Trinity #24, #11 is part of that batch (see picture on this page). The package is completed by the “G&L Special Edition” neck plate, Certificate of Authenticity (COA), and brown tolex hardshell case. More info can be found on its Rarebird page in the Guitars by Leo Registry.

 

ASAT TRINITY SPECIAL EDITION #11

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A little more than a decade after acquiring Bob Page’s Trinity #24, this guitar appeared on Reverb. Its sequence number (’11’) happens to be my lucky number which more than piqued my interest. After passing up on #4 and #5 during the intervening decade, the question remained whether another Trinity was needed to tell the story laid out on this site. After a bit of back and forth, I contacted Matt Murdoch who had posted that listing and we reached an agreeable price to both. Upon measuring the fingerboard radius it was discovered the stated #2 neck on the COA below is incorrect. The guitar most definitely has a #1 neck with 12” fingerboard, not the #2 with 7½” radius. The 3 pickups have a wonderful balance between them and the push-pull adds something special. What a wonderfully sounding, super-versatile instrument.

The story behind this guitar

2006

CLF43488 (#11 of 25)

none, marked ‘S 3 mp’

none, marked ‘.615’

D’Addario EXL110 Nickel Wound Regular Light (10-46)