Description

Here we have a pre owned G&L USA CLF Research Espada HH Passive Electric Guitar. Made in the USA in 2023.  The Espada HH was Leo’s last design from 1969.   G&L added in some humbucking pickups with coil tapping and a kill switch.   Finished in a beautiful Honeyburst Gloss.   Hard Rock Maple neck with a Caribbean Rosewood fingerboard with block inlays.  This Espada HH weighs 8lbs 10oz.  It comes with its original Pro-Tec G&L gig bag, certificate, build sheet, and Allen keys.  
This guitar has just been setup with 10-46’s and is playing great.  The neck is nice and straight and the truss rod is working as it should with good travel in both directions.  The frets are in excellent condition with very minimal signs of wear. The guitar plays cleanly up and down the fingerboard.   
Cosmetically, this Espada HH is in excellent condition.  There are light swirl marks and light marks on the chrome control plate but nothing major.   No dings or chips.  Truly very very clean shape.   
The Espada HH is an absolute tone monster.  Great sounding pickups and a great feeling instrument make for a fantastic playing experience.   See what Leo’s designs were all about.  Please see photo of build sheet for further details. Thanks for looking and happy buying!

From G&L site…..

Leo Fender’s† lost design from ‘69 takes on a whole new vibe with twin humbuckers in the G&L Espada HH and Espada HH Active.  The latest in double-hum guitars from G&L, they’re wrapped in a gorgeous shape tucked away for decades at CLF Research.

Espada HH features a set of G&L alnico humbuckers: clean and classic at the neck with a little more juice at the bridge, the same pairing found in other popular G&L HH models.  The expansive Espada control plate houses volume, treble and bass controls, each capped by a beautiful chrome CLF Research knob, plus twin mini-toggles: a coil-split for both pickups and an output kill-switch.  Then there’s the legendary bridge design from ‘79: Leo Fender’s G&L Saddle Lock hardtail which delivers superb sustain with comfort and style.

Espada HH Active features a G&L Micro-Preamp to unlock a new dimension of tones.  For active duty, the kill-switch on the passive Espada HH is replaced by a 3-way mini-toggle to control the preamp modes (passive/active/active-bright).  Leave the preamp off and everything works, but switch it on and you’ll hear more of the pickups’ natural harmonic complexity.  It’s classic Leo Fender: he solved “the cord problem” with an on-board buffer to shield the pickups from a cord’s loading effect.  And the result is audible in every pickup setting, from jangly single-coil tones that defy split-humbucker expectations, to overdriven humbucker tones with crisp detail and definition.  There’s always more to explore with Espada HH Active, and every journey is as exciting as the destination.

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