As I understand it, the Custom Creations Department (CCD) has ceased to be, is a stiff one, has gone up to meet its creator, is pushing up daisies, pining for the fjords, etc. ...
Mainly because, as
Dave McLaren stated already in 2015, the dealers considered it to be the Custom Shop anyway. So it seems they finally bit the bullet and changed the name with corresponding change in logo. Compare this:
with this:
So the CCD, and especially its Limited Editions, started with the ASAT
'Classic III' in 1998 and effectively ended with the Savannah Collection in 2013. If you want to access the old CCD webpage, go here
- Code:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170813142835/http://www.glguitars.com:80/instruments/USA/customcreations/index2.asp
The term should therefore not be used anymore. I have no knowledge whether other Collections will be created by the Custom Shop in the future; for now it seems they are focussing on one-offs. Maybe that is where CLF Research comes in although otherwise those instruments seem to be "ordinary" production models mixed in with the other production models on the G&L website. The fact that CLF Research is just indicated by the extra phrase in
the serial number seems to be another indicator of the above. See CLF Research more as G&L's Reissue line of instruments, just like Gibson's RI instruments which in their case is something separate from their Custom Shop too and falls more in line with ordinary production models.
- Jos