Wow, December already! The 2010 is almost over. Thanks again for the lively participation yesterday. Although the early Tele's have a slight edge there is no clear winner in the poll. Which in our modern day merely means my questions are not leading enough

Lunch
Guess it's that time of the week where we attend Buckley's; a pub/sports bar with some really good food. They have 2 kinds of burgers, the Juicy Jucy and Bluesy Lucy, which use cheese stuffed patties. That first bite is quite an adventure because you have no idea in what direction it will spurt out. An it's the place where, after living in the US for 15 years already, I discovered the yumminess of tater tots. But they have some fantastic salads too. So Ariel, please get me a Boddingtons and Mandarin Wonton salad!
Non-G&L related
So I have another confession to make. I have this weird habit of buying an additional Levy's MSS-3 suede leather in matching color for every new instrument. I started doing this ever since I owned 2 guitars. Same for a cleaning cloth. Same for 2 Herdim picks. Since I store my guitars in their case, I found it easy to have all of that in the case to be used when the guitar is played. Don't have to search for anything. Take case, open case, get guitar, get strap, start playing, unsnap strap, put guitar back in case, but strap in case, get cloth, clean guitar, put cloth back, close case, put case away. But you get the picture: vast number of straps, picks, cloths, and also string sets for no particular reason but habit. Although, I still use only one Peterson VS-1 tuner plus the Peterson Strobo-Rack tuner in my (where else?) rack.
Do you share accessories between different instrument? Or do you have similar habits?
G&L related
I was pleased to see a couple of 'old-timers' chiming in for yesterdays LR. So I tried to come up with a question that would suit this group just fine. Here it is:
What is the extra 'mojo' of a Leo-era G&L if any? What is so special to you about these old S-500's, F-100's, Nighthawks/Skyhawks, Interceptosr, SC's, HG's, G-200's etc?
It would be nice if it could be explained to the youngsters and newbies who may not be as familiar with the long storied history of G&L. I for myself can only speak for the Broadcaster/ASAT side of things and would like to hear about some of the other models myself too.
My first G&L's are all BBE-era instruments: '97 Legacy Special, '99 ASAT Classic, and '01 George Fullerton, all bought new. Must have been '99 when I started lurking around on the GbL website and read about the virtues of Leo-era instruments. But I didn't fully understand what they were talking about until I purchase my first Leo-era instrument last year: my Broadcaster with ebony board.

That opened my ears because there IS a difference and started my hunt for a Broadcaster with maple board and an ASAT III. That hunt resulted in yesterdays featured guitar and this '89 ASAT III:

The ASAT III had been set-up just a couple of months before and man does it play like butter. And do they sound good! OK, so does many modern G&L. So what is that difference then? I don't know to what extend yesterdays discussion regarding age and materials factors in but each one of them has a sonic complexity and maturity I find in only a few of my younger ASAT's. Akin to the difference between a younger and older Whisk(e)y. I am pretty sure the maple body has something to do with it, since my '06 maple bodied Trinity is one of the standouts among the newer ASAT's.
Talk to you later.
- Jos
Edit: fix image link after album was lost.