The Alabama Inventors Database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library compiles these records and updates the database on an ongoing basis.
The Fender Custom Shop produces special-order guitars for customers through a Custom Shop dealer network, creates limited edition guitars, builds limited edition amplifiers, and does some research & design for the parent company.
Next to the fret filing department stands the Custom Shopâs twin Plek machines. A hallmark of every guitar produced here is that it is adjusted and set â leveled and dressed â for maximum playability on the machines, which have a greater degree of accuracy than any human.