G&L ARTISTE GUITAR WITH HUMBUCKING PICKUPS-1

The printed text reads: “G&L ARTISTE GUITAR WITH HUMBUCKING PICKUPS - OFFSET 25 1/2 SCALE 2-19-83 GWF G&L MUSICAL PRODUCTS INC and that lower text was added to the revised blueprint. REVISED ON MAR 7 - 83 TO SHOW CONTROL PLATE FOR SINGLE PICKUP ALSO TO ADD THE SWITCH TO MAKE ACTIVE ELECTRONICS THE NEW 2 PICKUP MODEL WILL BE CALLED [crossed out] we can see written in ink pen CAVALIER. What I can’t make out is what is scribbled out. It’s not ARTISTE as you see crossed out earlier.

Anyway, this is old school development where they made decisions and altered blueprints and master templates and so on as they went along. It was the normal course of things and still sort of is. Now we have technology to greatly aid in the process, which is wonderful, but artifacts like this remind me of the manual and mental effort that went into doing things the old school way.