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The story that I heard is that this guitar was most recently purchased in Goshen, IN and was built originally for an artist that did not take delivery of it or was just a prototype for the NAMM show. Either way the tags on the case say it is one of two made and does not have Legacy on the headstock but says Series II. Robert Allen and Robbie Allen are also on the case and I haven't been able to find our who that truely is but it does say it was Malcolm McLamore's first green swirl metallic paint job. The paint job is also on the pickups, pickguard and headstock. On the inside of the neck it says LEO or LEG, NAMM and Dale with the date of Jun 23, 1992. If anyone has any further info I would love to know more.
As I mentioned in the other thread, this bridge was leftover from the earliest days of G&L. The serial number G000552 is incredibly low. This one must have been sitting on somebody's desk for a long time.
What is the radius on the fretboard? The original F-100s were designated "Series I" if they had a 12" radius, and "Series II" if the radius was 7.5". I'm wondering if there was a similar intention with the Legacy.
Craig reminded me about your email and sorry I didn’t get back to you.
The name Tony must be Tony Petrilla who used do repairs for us. He’d been around a long time, so there’s some merit to that. I can’t say with certainty what the deal is with it, and it seems odd to me that it would say LEO on it when Leo had been gone for more than a year.
The date does make it a very early swirl, and indeed it may be a prototype. It may not be a prototype just for the fact that it has a swirl finish on the body, but that the pickguard and pickup covers have a matching swirl finish. That’s very cool, but something I know wasn’t practical. Never stopped the guys from trying things, though. The fact that it has “SERIES II” also suggests something special. Malcolm may not have known what to put on it, perhaps nobody even told him, so it could be that he just decided to snip off a SERIES II from another logo, perhaps an F-100. Logo snipping and sharing is an age old tradition at G&L.
All around, this does have the vibe of a G&L prototype and it’s certainly a cool find.
The model is a Legacy and it looks to be what it is marked, Prototype for the Swirl finishes. I'm hoping that Dave McLaren
will reply and confirm these details. He and I share the webmaster@guitarsbyleo.com email account.
The serial number is stamped on the bridge, which is G000552. I see that you added this guitar to our Registry, so I will update
the missing details to it.
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