Playing the First Solid Body Electric Guitar

Rabs

Some interesting nerdy facts in there...

ICBM

... apart from being the first solidbody guitar.

Rickenbacker started making solid guitars - not the ‘frying pan’, they were Bakelite - in 1935.

Lots of interesting snippets about Les in there though, thanks for posting .

WezV

yeah, that was fun, and I think it acknowledges that the "first" claim is tenuous. 

Not enough Mention of Bigsby past a few comments about the trem.

rossi

My maternal Grandfather  worked for the Post Office as an engineer in the 20's .At the time these were the backroom boffins of their time .Developing many things including radar .one of the things he was working on was  an electric guitar .Sadly he  died in the early 1920's  from TB .The Special branch came round his house and took away all his  work  so no electric guitar .

Kittyfrisk

A good watch. 
So, Epiphone Les Paul's are more authentic than Gibsons... Mark Agnesi must be livid 

Pabcrane

Thanks for posting.

Has anyone heard of the Appleby or Appleton (or something along those lines) guitar? It was an electric solid body single cut guitar that the builder was shopping around to Gibson in the '40s.