Thanks again for all the participation yesterday. One thing I always notice when on LR duty is how fast time flies, and how engaged people on this forum are.
Lunch:
While the rest of the team had sandwiches and salad (again) yesterday, our small team of 4 was able to pry itself off and get out of the building to have a nice lunch at Bambino's. That is still pizza but of high quality. And they have an excellent beer list. The evening dinner was Petra, east-Mediterranean food. They make excellent grilled vegetable kebabs that I enjoy.
Today is going to be a fun day! Our game team develops in 2 week sprints, a concept in Agile Development. At the end of the sprint, each feature that has been finished is demonstrated in front of the whole team and many times executives and other people in the company. Like I wrote before, I am responsible for developing the server back-end; not half as sexy as any of the true game features. That's why I usually use audience participation to show 'The Magic' that we do to make sure players don't lose their data. And we're trying to avoid to end up in a similar situation as EAs Sim City a couple of weeks ago.
But back to guitars!
There were a couple of other prototypes released by G&L a week or 2 ago and I was surprised to find another ASAT S-3 in there. Initially introduced at the '99 Winter NAMM, it never was really successful and production was seized in '04. As an interesting side note, one of the stipulations in the production of the Buffalo Brothers Trinity Special Edition in 2006 was that it would use surplus S-3 pickguards. The S-3 apparently got a less than favorable wrap amongst players because the large MFD middle pickup was deemed to be in the way. I do not have that problem at all. The three large MFDs combine very well with the ash body (in contrast to the maple body on the Trinity) of this S-3. A great all-round guitar! Or stated otherwise, a great guitar all around!
There were a handful of S-3s produced during '98 and as evidenced by the date stamps this is one of them:
And another interesting the S-3 is that no swimming pool rout was used:
I am curious whether the Blueburst prototype has individual routes still or whether G&L moved to the large rout on that one.
G&L question:
Which other G&L model, either Leo-era and or BBE-era, would you like to give a second change? Don't leave out the low-enders.
I talked about demoing features at the end of the sprint earlier.
General question:
Do you give presentations? Any good at it?
Well, it's time to go to work and prep myself for that demo. See if I can add some sparkle to it so people are engaged and appreciate the features and improvements our team makes.
Ta ta,
- Jos
sorry i couldn't resist. I would probably like the option to leave out the middle z coil on the commanche or z-3. The photos of your z-2 look really great. I think that combo would stand out with other finishes. 
