G&L Fallout Left Handed Silver Flake Frost wood binding w/G&L bag

For our left-handed friends, the G&L Fallout will bring a breath of fresh new sounds to your guitar collection. The Fallout gives players a solid alternative to the typical choices for high quality electric guitars. By combining their own excellent in-house P90 and Humbucker pickups you get a new sonic option that won't sound like all your other guitars. We dig the look of the G&L Satin Frost finishes, and in this build we opted for Metallic Silver Frost with scraped wood binding. The chrome pickup cover also dresses it up a bit and provides a little smooth top end. Lastly, this guitar has their "Classic C" profile which is a little meatier than their Slim C and offers better palm support as you move up the neck. 

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This USA Fallout features the following:

• Silver Metallic on Alder, 7 pounds
• Scraped wood binding
• G&L Classic C Neck profile - 1-5/8" nut with 9.5" fingerboard radius
• .830" depth first fret, .960" depth at the 12th
• Clear finish satin neck
• Indian Rosewood fingerboard 
• G&L split and drilled tuners
• Bone nut
• 3-ply mint pickguard
• G&L P90 neck pickup
• G&L AW4368C humbucker bridge pickup
• 3-way pickup switch
• Volume and tone controls
• Pull-tone control to split bridge pickup
• G&L non-compression truss rod
• G&L Deluxe padded gig bag

The Fallout is one of Leo Fender's "other" shapes uses the same body as the SC-2. While it gives the impression of being a "junior" guitar, it's the same length as the Legacy (Strat). The slightly narrower waist gives it a compact appearance, and the fully contoured body is super comfortable.

If you are not familiar with the P90 pickup, G&L's own P90 is a great introduction to this famous pickup. Originally developed by Gibson in the late 40's the P90 is known for punchy tone and a strong mids. However, wind them for too much output, and they can get dull and one-dimensional. Not a problem here; and with a mid-6K DC resistance G&L's P-90 has both excellent clarity and more midrange heft than the typical Fender-style single coil. Given some overdrive, the P90 thickens up and takes on a somewhat creamy tone, but without the woody or mushy feel that you sometimes get with a humbucker. 

In the bridge is G&L's own AW4368C Chrome covered Alnico Humbucker. If you follow G&L's numbering system, you'll notice that the chrome pickup uses a different gage wire (43) and has slightly fewer turns (6800) than the usual uncovered AW4470 bridge pickup. That's because adding the Chrome cover does impact the magnetic field of the pickup and the larger gage wire (43 is bigger than 44) and fewer turns keeps the pickup from sounding darker than the uncovered version. We like what the cover does, and the AW4368C has a little smoother top and creamier gain profile. And compared to the typical format for a humbucker (shorter scale, set neck) the bolt-on Fallout is not lacking for attack and clarity.

Both pickups together produce the bell-like clean rhythm tones often associated with this combination. The sound is Tele like, but a little fatter, and with slightly less edge. Percussive and snappy without being fatiguing, it's got a little bit of a Gretsch or Rickenbacker twang that works well for country, roots rock and lush rhythm strumming.

If you've never had a P90 guitar, the Fallout is a great introduction to one of rock's most underrated pickups. Combined with the humbucker bridge pickup you get a one-two punch that is surprisingly versatile, and a clean break from the strat/tele paradigm.

We are an authorized G&L Premier dealer located in Bellingham, Massachusetts, and this is a new guitar with all tags, tools, paperwork and certificates. We have a wide selection of G&L’s in stock at all times, and please feel free to browse our other listings, or contact us for information on a custom order.