G&L ASAT and other Telecaster style guitars: RFI

I'm starting to shop around for a new electric and am decidedly in the market for a Tele of some sort. I remember reading some praise for ASATs on I Make Music before. I want to go back and read it, but who knows how long it will be unavailable via search

Does anyone have any comments or input? Are there other tele copies or similar guitars that you'd recommend?

Thanks!

Just remembered about google cache, so here's the original thread I was thinking of:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dZAin7Pm8xYJ:www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet%3Fboardid%3D45%26threadid%3D78036+asat+site:ilxor.com&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

asats are amazing, both the tribute and the american versions. i think that $ for quality they pretty much stomp on the current fenders in pretty much every way.

btw if you need any info on any of the G&L stuff i can do that because hey i am technically at work so

i am also really digging the reverend buckshot, but thats sort of a semitele hybrid (gretschy mini-humbucker in the neck). worth looking at though.

http://www.reverendguitars.com/reverend/guitars/bolt_on_series/buckshot.html

we had a guitar listening in lecture on monday and in the lot was a Z-3 i thought was pretty sleek. the sound wasn't very near tele territory imo but seemed like you could cover a whole lotta ground w/ the coil-tap and all. liked it quite a bit.

yeah those pickups are really cool, we sell tons of the tribute comanches because those are in there and they arent stupid expensive. also arb ys did u get my message?

yeah like ten minutes ago actually cuz my phone is stupid. i'll either be up tmr or um... actually prob more like tuesday idk. i'll call ya abt pricing or w/e when i figure out what's going on.

i think it was a USA Z-3 the dude was playing--do the tribute comanches do all the coil tap business or are they more straightforward?

unless it was really weird, i think instead of coil tapping it must have been an on/off switch for the neck pickup prob (so you can get the bridge/neck and all on combos without fucking up the standard 5 way switching. thx to the z coil design, if you coil tapped you would basically turn off half of the strings.

I did end up buying myself a Tribute Classic Semi-Hollow. It's my first new guitar in over a decade and I'm so fucking thrilled.

oh and yeah the tribute comanches have the on/off on a push/pull on the center pot

xpost awesome man, thats a great great guitar

xp: Which is to say, big thanks to you, Proven By Booze Science for hammering on about these guitars that I might have overlooked.

the guy was tapping all three pickups, i'm positive. i think each coil in each of the Z was tapped halfway through the winds? like on the tux deluxe?

or: misinformation.

also xpost congrats on the guit!

oh ok, thats some serious hardcore custom shit right there then!