The new Wide 5 of Fender Avenue is the biggest thing since Leos L-2000 hit back in 81. It’s the G&L L-2500 Series 750 and its packing everything that makes the L-2000 and L-2500 icons. So whats new? The Series 750 is a fiver with a full 3/4-inch string spacing at the bridge, just like Leos four-string basses thats why they call it a Wide 5.
After all, its in the name: Leos four-strings have three-quarter-inch string spacing, so weve got 3/4 > 0.750 > 19.03mm. When someone says a five-string has nineteen millimeter string spacing, thats just a metric conversion of Leos original four-string spec, so on Fender Avenue its gotta be Seven-Fifty. The CLF Research L-2500 and other G&L fivers continue with narrower 11/16 string spacing at the bridge, as popularized on 1980s for fivers. The L-2500 Series 750 is for players who want the full three-quarter inch spacing on the most iconic of G&L designs.
Series 750 means theres a new Wide-5 Saddle Lock bridge plate housing five of the same saddles youll find on an L-2000. This new bridge is all about maximizing string energy transfer to the body especially that knockout B-string. The new body shape draws on classic Fender Avenue forms, melding them into a fresh hit for the ages. Thats a sweet story in itself, as Series 750 arrived exactly forty years after the G&L L-2000 did. And those big pickups are more than stretched out brutes: all the harmonic detail of the best MFD humbuckers speak in a clear voice over massive B-string energy.
Sure, Series 750 is a brand new model but classic Fender Avenue details are everywhere. That graceful early CLF/G&L headstock flows into a slim, rounded neck profile thats rock solid thanks to a true dual-action truss rod and twin graphite reinforcement rods. And those big, beautiful machined CLF knobs popping against the sweeping chrome control plate that houses the Trig-Tone Preamp. Even those little color-coded mini toggle switch tips have outsized mojo. This is retrofuturism of the very best kind.
Specifications
- PICKUPS: Two G&L Magnetic Field humbucking pickups
- BODY WOOD: Swamp Ash with Purpleburst finish
- NECK WOOD: Natural Satin Hard Rock Maple with Maple fingerboard
- NECK PROFILE: CLF/G&L 1.78″ nut width-slim C with 9 1/2″ radius
- FRETS: Medium Jumbo, Jescar 57110 18% nickel silver
- TUNING KEYS: Custom G&L “Ultra-Lite” with aluminum tapered string posts
- BRIDGE: Leo Fender-designed 19mm Saddle Lock with chrome-plated brass saddles
- ELECTRONICS: Tri-Tone system with 3-position pickup selector, series/parallel switch, 3-position pre-amp mode switch, volume, treble, bass
- Finish: Purple Burst
- INCLUDES: G&L Deluxe Gig Bag
SKU: S750-L25-PPB MP
Serial# CLF2504200
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