G&L in trouble...?

[Cato]

I guess Fender decided it was more cost effective to chuck the stuff they had no intention of using rather than pay to store it while it could be sold off?

 

I can kind of see the logic for the bridges and pick ups which probably have limited demand and might take a long time to sell on if they had a lot of stock but you'd think they could shift the pedals and other electronic items fairly quickly in a fire sale scenario. 

[Woodinblack]

What was skipped? (for those of us that can't get more than 2 seconds through a Sapko youtube!)

[Ben Jamin]

24 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

What was skipped? (for those of us that can't get more than 2 seconds through a Sapko youtube!)

Looks like a lot of the stock from the factory - bridges, tuning machines, pick-ups and misc. parts/electronics - as well as a bunch of BBE Sonic Maximisers and other outboard pre-amps.

[Woodinblack]

Well, some good scavenging there then! Will keep facebook fullerton marketplace busy for a while!

 

[BassAgent]

I'm not surprised. If Fender's goal was to acquire Leo's workplace and his name and likeness, it's not more than logical that they don't "need" the G&L stock. They won't sell Fender-branded basses with G&L branded bridges and MDF pickups, anyway. It's a lot cheaper to sell or dispose of that stuff than to try to re-purpose it. 

[HeadlessBassist]

The story of the closure...

 

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

It will be interesting to see whether Fender keeps Leo's workspace intact — or if his tools etc went in the skip, and whether they put the fullerton factory up for sale, keep it as a factory, or turn it into as museum or other public venue.

[neepheid]

1 minute ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

It will be interesting to see whether Fender keeps Leo's workspace intact — or if his tools etc went in the skip, and whether they put the fullerton factory up for sale, keep it as a factory, or turn it into as museum or other public venue.

 

The factory was hired, had to be emptied for new tenants next month.

[Sean]

27 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

The factory was hired, had to be emptied for new tenants next month.

Tis the cold corporate way. 

[Russ]

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

 

The factory was hired, had to be emptied for new tenants next month.

They probably cleared it out in order to recreate it in Fender's Corona facility. I'm imagining something a bit like what they did with Francis Bacon's art studio when they moved it from his old home in London to the Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin.

[Cato]

Given their actions so far, I'm not sure that Fender will have much interest in putting the workshop Leo used to design non Fender branded instruments on display.

 

I don't think they necessarily want that part of his history memorialised.

[LukeFRC]

2 minutes ago, Cato said:

Given their actions so far, I'm not sure that Fender will have much interest in putting the workshop Leo used to design non Fender branded instruments on display.

 

I don't think they necessarily want that part of his history memorialised.

- why not? They own it now. (That bit of his history) 

Edited 9 hours ago by LukeFRC

[Cato]

Seems odd that despite the takeover apparently being a done deal some weeks ago that there's doesn't seem to have been any official announcement by Fender either about aquiring the company or what their future plans for the brand and it's various models are.

[BassBiscuit]

2 hours ago, Cato said:

Seems odd that despite the takeover apparently being a done deal some weeks ago that there's doesn't seem to have been any official announcement by Fender either about aquiring the company or what their future plans for the brand and it's various models are.

 

I feel that may be all in good time...all in good time....!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

3 hours ago, Cato said:

Given their actions so far, I'm not sure that Fender will have much interest in putting the workshop Leo used to design non Fender branded instruments on display.

 

I don't think they necessarily want that part of his history memorialised.

It's the same workshop with the original workbench where Leo worked when it was the original Fender factory, so a lot of classic Fender design work was originated there too.