Morning Rick,
I also have a George and Tim story. Knowing what kind of G&L connoisseur Tim is, I had dropped him an email with a list of a couple of models I was looking for; one of them being a Trinity which we all know was designed by Tim with additional help/input by Gabe Dellevigne and Greg Gagliano. A couple of months later I received an email that his brother Bob wanted to sell his Trinity: #24 and the only one in transparent red.
Tim has told me that when showing this guitar to George, it inspired him to come up with a design for the
Trinity logo. At the same visit, George also signed the back of the headstock:
Here some pics Tim sent me of the occasion:
What makes Bob Trinity also special (and in a similar fashion Tim's #25), is how the Buffalo Brothers decked out their Trinities. It has a black aluminum wrinkle powder-coated pickguard, bridge, and control plate, some special knobs with a US nickel depicting a buffalo in bas-relief, and a special neck plate with Bob's initials (RDP) added:
And to finally bring it back to George, according to Tim this COA for the #24 is the very last certificate of any kind George signed for anything related to G&L:
You'll notice too that the COA is customized for this specific guitar. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it ...
- Jos
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