“I co-founded D'Leco Acoustic Instruments, a small guitar company in Oklahoma City where James Dale, a good friend and fantastic luthier (who by the way continues to build) and myself produced handcrafted arch top guitars. For me, it was the highlight of my career as a guitarist. During our six and one half years as business partners we managed to achieve an impressive list of accomplishments. Our small company came to represent the estate of Charlie Christian, one of the greatest pioneers of the electric guitar. My involvement placed me in a position to negotiate deals with two world renowned guitar manufacturers, Samick Musical Instruments in Korea and American manufacturer, Gibson Guitars to produce a line of expensive, high end collector's edition guitars as a tribute to the legendary Charlie Christian. I still play one of these models today.” From: http://www.giglogic.com/main.html

For Dollarbill (who asked) I had the ‘Deal’ remembered incorrectly. We took the couple to dinner tonight. It was James Dale.
I remember seeing the D’Leco in script on the neck, and he mentioned Dale built this one himself, evidently all the D’Leco’s were not made by Dale. I saw something on a D’Leco collaboration being one of the several pieces in the Smithsonian “Blue Guitar ” commission, - which collection no longer resides at the Smithsonian but is now owned by a private collector. The D’Leco blue in that collection was listed as perhaps needing more volume in the pickup. I tried to pull up the D’Leco Co., and could not find much on it. (I feel 'attached' in a wierd way to this guitar now. ). It may already be a defunct enterprise. Regardless it’s a beautiful piece…will try to get pics someday, if I ever figure out how to post them.