The Ascari, the newest member of G&L’s Tribute Series.It was inspired by a recently uncovered prototype drawing done three decades ago by G&L co-founder George Fullerton, representing Leo Fender’s vision for G&L’s first 24 ¾” scale, three-tuners-to-a-side guitar.It was designed jointly by G&L’s longtime VP of engineering, Paul Gagon, and his close friend and former collaborator, Grover Jackson, founder of Jackson Guitars. Its DNA is full of rock guitar history.Yet it breaks new ground for G&L: it has a set neck, a Leo-inspiredheadstock with three tuners to a side, and a 24 ¾” scale to put itsquarely on the classic side of the rock’n’roll stage. Add in a Tone-Pros tailpiece and tappable humbuckers specially designed by Gagon right here on Fender Avenue, and you have a gorgeous, high-performance rock guitar that’s simultaneously strikingly new and steeped in rock guitar history. Learn the full story.

G&L founder Leo Fender had a vision for a new guitar, and his partner George Fullerton sketched that vision. G&L’s Steve Grom uncovered the sketch three decades later in Leo’s workshop, and his colleague Paul Gagonset about turning the vision into reality. He enlisted Jackson Guitars founder Grover Jackson—a long-time friend and collaborator—to contribute.The result is an instrument that’s steeped in rock-guitar history but groundbreaking: The Fiorano, the first set-neck, 25½”-scale, three-tuners to-a-side guitar G&L has ever offered. It’s a striking instrument and, quite simply, it kicks ass. It joins the pioneering 24¾”-scale Ascari in G&L’s Tribute Series, and it delivers on its promise. The 24-fret neck and Gagon-designed humbuckers are made for brutal riffing and detuned/drop-tuned heaviness—but the Fiorino cleans up beautifully when asked. The sweeping lines and three-by-three headstock (inspired by the original drawing) are both powerful and refined. Fittingly, we named Fiorano after the curvaceous test track of Italy’s most renowned super car maker, a place where tradition turns ground breaking.·Learn the full story.