Copying real life objects can be very risky. There are a lot of companies who are very protective of their designs. Car manufacturers, for example, are notorious for slapping huge restrictions on the use of things - other than their own products - which resemble their "distinctive likeness". Guitar makers are constantly suing each other for copying designs. PRS and Gibson are at each other's throats at the moment over the design of the Gibson Les Paul and the PRS Singlecut. Fender and Gibson have registered their headstock shapes, and Gibson managed to stop Tokai importing their Love Rock model to the USA because it's a replica (and a damn good one) of the 1957 Les Paul Standard. Fender throws a fit every time another manufacturer refers to a "Strat". So, things ain't so cut and dried as you might think. Bet you there's some gimlet eyed corporate bod studying anything they can get their hands on. To quote a line from a comic book, "Everything belongs to somebody". Kinda funny at the time but all too sadly true.

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