It has taken a while but here it is. The second Limited Edition designed by participants of the Guitars by Leo (GbL) forum spanning the years 2012 and 2013. Whereas in 1998, when the first GbL LE was designed, it was Doug Abrams of Indoor Storm in Durham, NC, and Brad Traweek of the forum who pulled the cart over the finish line, this time the reins were taken by Bob Mullen at Music Source in Wildwood, IL, and Patrick Krook aka JagInTheBag on the forum. After a lot of back and forth it was finally decided what this sequel should look like while still leaving plenty of room for customization in terms of neck profile and add-ons. The basic spec of this model is a modified Fallout model swamp ash body in Autumn Burst finish with arm and belly contours, single-ply black guard, Jumbo Magnetic Field Design (MFD) single-coil neck pickup, MFD bridge humbucker, 3-position pickup selector, volume control, push-pull tone control for bucker split-coil, dark roasted (torrefied) quartersawn hard-rock maple neck, and matching board. I finally decided to deck out my LE-2 #2 with a Dual-Fulcrum Steel (DFS) bridge, Jescar Medium Jumbo 57110 frets, Graph-Tech nut, and Schaller Locking tuning machines. What makes this model special? Let’s go down the list: the Autumn Burst has exclusively been used for the Launch Editions of the ASAT Classic Alnico and the ASAT Classic ‘S’ Alnico, the Fallout is only available with a Saddle-Lock bridge, the pup combination is unique and exclusive in combining the Jumbo MFD of the SC-1/SC-2/Broadcaster with the MFD humbucker of the F-100/G-200, all models from the earliest days at G&L, the DFS is an upgrade over the Dual-Fulcrum Vibrato (DFV) bridge adding a 1018 cold-rolled steel block and stainless steel saddles both machined from billet material, and the dark roasted maple neck and board as found on my ‘Port & Chocolate’. Note that in July 2014, Martin Music Guitar in Memphis, TN, commissioned a run of ASAT Classics and Legacies with roasted maple neck, most with roasted maple boards but also some rosewood boards. On September 25, 2014, it was announced that G&L would no longer build instruments with these kind of necks due to production problems related to its inherent brittleness, although the use of medium torrefied maple necks was not excluded as evidenced by its current (post-2018) inclusion as a possible G&L Custom Shop option. Unfortunately this all meant that LE-2s assembled in late-2014 do not have this unique neck. Not surprisingly there is no info out on the internet on this model beyond what can be found on GbL. One small detail though: you have to be a member and logged in to see it!