The first Strat....

[duhvoodooman]

Very cool video interview with the late Bill Carson of Fender fame about how the Strat came into being:

 

[Tig]

Very interesting!
Thx

 

[poodlesrule]

Interesting indeed.

Kids, this was before focus groups-derived design.
Stuff for the working man, you know.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Very cool! Thanks for that!

 

[Jimi75]

Pretty cool. Thanks for the post.

 

[Katastrophe]

Very cool piece of musical history... Great find!

 

[kidsmoke]

necessity, the mother of invention. Thanks, DVM

As an apprentice tool maker, the journeyman I worked with loved to say that you hoped to stumble into the thing that was "simple, but not obvious". That's what would stick.