Leo Fender’s concept schematic for a guitar-1

Leo Fender’s concept schematic for a guitar that would have the new split coil MFD guitar pickups, which would become known as the G&L Z-coil pickups. These pickups were introduced with the new Comanche guitar in 1988.

On the third pic, you can see Leo’s complete Z-coil pickup and some of his other MFD split coil prototypes.

The last pic is of the CLF Research prototype of 1968, and by then Leo was really into using split coil pickups on guitars. Though he didn’t make them stick in the ‘70s, he ended the ‘80s with some great ones in the Comanche’s Z-coil pickups.