Dúd… Strattinn er sú hönnun sem Leo var ánægðastur með og hann varði mestum sínum tíma í að hanna pickuppa eftir að hann setti G&L í gang með kunningja sínum honum George… Ekki vera þykkur í kreiníuminu… lesa smá. George segir það sjálfur…
Leo retained some of the buildings for his own consultancy company, CLF Research, which stood for Clarence Leo Fender Research. At CLF Research he designed and manufactured Music Man instruments until the late 70's when he had a falling out with his partners. Leo wanted to continue in the guitar business, but this time on his own terms. In 1979, Leo invited his close friend and associate he had known by then for over 30 years, George Fullerton, to form a company he wished to call G&L Musical Instruments. Leo insisted that this would be the company name, out of deference to his decades of trust and friendship with George. The design and production of the G&L instruments began in 1980, in the same buildings that housed CLF Research, and where the G&L factory remains to this day.