References to the Guitars for Leo website (www.guitarsbyleo.com), also known as GbL, are sprinkled throughout these pages. It was founded by G&L enthusiast Brad Traweek in July 1997 to provide a forum for admirers/lovers of G&L instruments to trade stories and exchange information. The site also introduced a public Registry where G&L’s of any era could (and can) be entered; an invaluable source of information knowing that only about 50,000 G&L’s were produced while Leo was alive and the random chronological order in which serial numbers were consumed. In the summer of 1998, Doug Abrams at Indoor Storm in Durham, NC, came with the suggestion to have this rather new forum design a new instrument as a community project: a first of its kind. Remember that in 1998 it was only a decade ago that (Sir) Tim Berners Lee “invented” the internet and that its widespread use outside of the scientific community was just picking up speed. After many months of back and forth, this guitar became the result: the ‘www.guitarsbyleo.com‘ Limited Edition, or GbL LE for short. This model has a semi-hollow mahogany body with a single f-hole and Natural finish, uses the modern day S-500 Magnetic Field Design (MFD) pickups, a 5-position pickup selector with additional mini-toggle switch to allow additional combinations of the neck and bridge pickups, a Bird’s Eye maple neck with clear gloss finish, and ebony fingerboard with radius and neck profile to be specified by the buyer. The hardware consists of Saddle-Lock bridge, volume control, tone control, both with knurled knobs, and Sperzel closed tuning machines. Only 25 were built with an additional 2 prototypes. More on its history and how it came to be can be found in “Hardcore fanatics”, a 1999 article available on Greg Gagliano’s ggjaguar.com website as well as on its page amongst the Rarebirds.