Chabenda wrote:MikeM - I can believe that Leo made better guitars at G&L, Was he a great businessman?? He was tight with money for sure and certainly no fool but 'enough is a good as a feast' - G&L gave him an opportunity to get back to designing and building his guitars instead of running a giant business. He appears to have been happiest in the workshop. With regards to the trem design, it is his name as the inventor on the patent application. I would certainly concede that he probably didn't do it all on his own. It appears that he didn't even play guitar, he was a radio repairman turned amp builder turned guitar builder. He was a real innovator as the revolutionary Stratocaster proved. In my opinion, and based on the fact that that he had applied for somewhere around 75 patents, he was a genius.
There is a related article here
https://sites.google.com/site/1953stratocaster/ regarding what may have been the prototype bridge.
Peace and respect Senhor MikeM - have a great weekend,
Chabenda
I'm struggling to find sources, I'll update when I can, but supposedly Leo was very much focused on a roller system at the time, but by the time things came around, he used another design (Who it is, is what I'm trying to google without luck right now).
I honestly think the telecaster shower far more innovation than the strat, but that's a can of worms for another thread ? And again, I must disagree. Filing a lot of patents doesn't make one a genius, unless your name is Albert and you're born in Ulm.
Thanks for the link, haven't seen info about that strat for a long while!!!
@Kalcium, thanks bud.
And yea, I can throw more love towards Callahams, love mine. They're great vintage style bridges, but the focus point of this thread is 2 post trems.
