I got to meet George Fullerton at the G&L factory in Anaheim in the mid 80's. I went to the factory to order a G&L F100 and George took my order and helped me choose the options I wanted. I still have the guitar. He was a wonderful guy, and yes I realized how lucky I was that day. I have never forgotten him. This is a wonderful video. Thank you Ken, for reminding me the factory was in Fullerton not Anaheim. It also reminded me that it was George Fullerton in Fullerton.
Thanks Ken, you are correct it was Fullerton not Anaheim. You probably know your SoCal geography and know they’re next door to each other. I mixed them up.
@@toddinrancho290 G&L is about a mile or so east of the original Fender building on the same street now called Fender Ave. My mother worked at Fender around the time CBS was buying it. I’ve got a G&L F-100 series 1 and 2. We used to live about a block from the original Fender building so my mom walked to work. G&L make great guitars. I recently got an ASAT classic. Love it but I more of a Strat guy. Take care.
My mother and I actually had a roommate that worked in that original Fender factory in Fullerton, CA. There was also one in Anaheim. If you go to a neighborhood in Fullerton there's a street called Fender Ave. Right before she quit and moved to Florida, she got me a huge bag of Fender medium picks and other Fender stuff. They lasted me for years!
No mention of 7.25 inch radius, which was radical at the time, and still is today. I've never found out why they chose that radius or whose idea it was. All guitars at the time (as now) had a flatter radius, eg 10" or flatter. This was radical, but it's never been explained. It had to be someone's idea, who was that person. This is the greatest mystery in the history of electric guitars.
Did the ‘secretary’ get shares in the fender corporation? She damn well should have done! A genius design and unusually, aesthetically damn near perfect. Should have used a 25 inch scale though.
Well, right now it's 11:55pm EST, a few hours after the comments about the sound level being too low on the video, and I'm hearing the sound level just fine.
Interesting talk about the challenge of mass producing a fretboard. These days, one could argue that all the basic engineering problems of elec guitar design and manufacturing have been solved. Hence the current availability of affordable, high quality elec guitars. Still, inexplicably, fender continues to offer mediocre guitars for extravagant prices.
