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This gorgeous and light (7.0 pounds!) guitar came from an estate. Word through the grapevine indicates that the dearly departed was a G&L employee who created his own custom spec guitars. I cannot confirm that, but the quality of the pieces I bought certainly makes it plausible. This seems to me to sit between G&L's made to order offerings and their custom shop. I have plugged it in put it through its paces. It's a lot of fun to play with the volume and tone controls and get different sounds. The pickups sound very nice, with a good balance between the cutting bridge and the warmer neck humbucker. The humbucker gets growly at full volume as a good humbucker should. The tone control allows the bridge pickup to go from vocal to shrill. I got all the tones I wanted from a good HS Tele. The guitar does NOT have a spec sheet. Here is what I know about the specs and condition after disassembling the instrument: Mahogany thinline body with spalted maple top, pickguard delete. Both the body and the top have some light flame figuring. This is one of the more beautiful thinline ASATs I have ever seen. I hesitate to call any used guitar "mint," but this one is close.Boxed steel ASAT bridge assembly with brass saddles. Each string can be intonated, but the brass saddles all touch each other, giving you the sustain of traditional barrel saddles.Seymour Duncan telecaster style bridge pickup with copper bottom gives plenty of twang and snarl. As best I can tell, "STLI" indicates a broadcaster-style bridge pickup.Seymour Duncan "SH55N" Seth Lover PAF-style humbucker neck pickup is warm and full.Electronics appear to be factory original. Wiring conforms to G&L standard materials. Controls are three way pickup selector, master volume, master tone. Pot codes date to 36th week of 2005.Medium C Maple neck with maple fretboard, reverse headstock, locking tuners, no string trees. 9 1/2" radius. Classic G&L wood plugs in headstock back near tuners. I cannot see a line between neck and fretboard, but the neck does not have a skunk stripe. Either the fretboard is a maple cap and the guy who glued it in place is a wizard, or G&L used a very long bit to install the truss rod.The medium jumbo frets had the lacquer applied over them in traditional Tele style, and it appears someone tried to scrape the lacquer off. Other than that, the frets show no wear.The truss rod turns smoothly and adjusts relief as designed.Handwritten note on neck: "Classic R9P. (MP.?) Yellow by Etrain.Writing and stamp in neck pocket: ".610 .590 (illegible) W/B MAY02 RECD"Thin polyurethane gloss finish in "honey."G&L branded black tolex hard case in pretty good shape. It has a couple of minor dings on the exterior, but the interior looks new.Did I mention that this guitar weighs 7 pounds, 0.1 ounces? It's light in the hand and well balanced on a strap. This is a perfect couch guitar that could well become your daily player.