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77-591: The Fender Esquire was a solid-body electric guitar manufactured by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation of Los Angeles. It was the first solid-bodied guitar marketed by the company, and made its debut in 1950. The first prototype for the Esquire (and the later Telecaster) was completed by Leo Fender and George Fullerton in 1949. The guitar was designed to be an electronic instrument, with no acoustic manipulation of

154-436: A spindle moulder . For smaller, lighter jobs, the router used in this way can be more convenient than the spindle moulder, with the task of set up being somewhat faster. There is also a much wider range of bit profiles available for the router, although the size is limited. The router table is usually oriented so that the router bit is vertical and the table over which the work is passed is horizontal. Variations on this include

231-538: A 1959 Esquire reproduction as part of its "Time Machine" series, which is distinguished by its top-loading bridge design. It is also notable that the Avril Lavigne signature Telecaster sold under the "Squier by Fender" brand resembles an Esquire in having only one pickup. Although the pickup in the Avril Lavigne Telecaster is a humbucker rather than the usual single coil, the guitar features

308-495: A Man ," and " Heart Full of Soul ". Beck bought it from the Walker Brothers guitarist John Maus while on tour with them. Maus had hand-shaved the body to be contoured like a Stratocaster. This guitar has significant wear and now belongs to pickup designer Seymour Duncan ; Beck gave him the guitar as a return favor after Duncan built his famous Tele-Gib guitar for him. Syd Barrett , the original leader of Pink Floyd ,

385-439: A Telecaster". Solid-body Recognisable solid body instruments are the electric guitar and electric bass , developed in the 1930s. Common woods used in the construction of solid body instruments are ash, alder, maple, mahogany, korina, spruce, rosewood, and ebony. The first two make up the majority of solid body electric guitars. Solid body instruments have some of the same features as acoustic string instruments. Like

462-399: A base housing a vertically mounted universal electric motor with a collet on the end of its shaft. The bit is height-adjustable to allow protrusion through an opening in a flat sole plate, usually via adjusting the motor-mounting height (the mechanism of adjustment is widely varied among manufacturers). Control of the router is derived from a handle or knob on each side of the device, or by

539-537: A bass guitar. The result was the Fender Precision Bass . It consisted of an ash bolt-on maple neck. The scale for the bass was 34." "It also had "cutaways for better balance." Now guitarists could double on bass, and the bass player of the band would not have to carry around a huge upright bass. It entered the market in 1951. Fender's second bass model, the Jazz Bass , was introduced in 1959. It had

616-584: A few followers and Gibson reintroduced the guitar in 1967. The Explorer was also reintroduced, in the mid-1970s. Both guitars are still in production today. In 1961, Gibson discontinued the Les Paul model and replaced it with a new design. The result was the Solid Guitar (SG). It weighed less and was less dense than the Les Paul. It had double cutaways to allow easier access to the top frets. Eventually

693-446: A fine table top, many users prefer a D handle, with variable speed, as it seems to permit better control and burning the wood can be minimized. Routers have many uses. With the help of the multitude of jigs and various bits, they are capable of producing dovetails, mortises, and tenons, moldings of infinite varieties, dados, rabbets/rebates , raised-panel doors and frames, cutting circles, and so much more. The tool usually consists of

770-534: A slimmer neck at the nut, a different two pickup combination, and an offset body shape. While it did not become extremely popular among jazz players, it was well received in rock music. Many companies today produced models based on the body shapes first started by Fender. Gibson created the Gibson Electric Bass to be introduced in the 1953. The scale, 30 ½" was shorter than the Fender basses. Its body

847-578: A sunburst finish and rosewood fretboard. Though the guitar was a right-handed model, McCartney restrung it for left-handed playing. McCartney would use it on " Good Morning, Good Morning " for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , and on " Helter Skelter " for The Beatles double album. Jeff Beck used a 1954 Esquire with the Yardbirds to create the famous guitar parts on " Over Under Sideways Down ", " Shapes of Things ", " I'm

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924-484: A three motor drive system utilizing either servo or stepper motors. More advanced routers use a four motor system for added speed and accuracy. A tool similar to a router, but designed to hold smaller cutting bits—thereby making it easier to handle for small jobs—is a laminate trimmer . A related tool, called a spindle moulder (UK) or shaper (North America), is used to hold larger cutter heads and can be used for deeper or larger-diameter cuts. Another related machine

1001-548: A three-way selector switch to allow the player to isolate one coil of the pickup at a time, providing single-coil tones like the Esquire or a normal Telecaster, or both coils at the same time for a humbucker sound. The use of the Fender Esquire by several country musicians is popularly credited for the creation of one of the most distinctive and recognized sounds in American music history. Jimmy Wyble with Spade Cooley

1078-523: A twangy sound that reminded people of its Indian namesake." It is played like a regular guitar. An electric sitar's electronics consist of "Three pickups with individual volume and tone controls are standard, including one pickup over the sympathetic strings." The bridge of the electric sitar is creates the sound of a sitar. Like electric guitars, made by Fender especially, the neck of a sitar is usually "made of bolt-on, hard maple wood with an optional mini-harp." The sitar also has 13 drone strings located above

1155-453: A typical string instrument, they have a neck with tuners for the strings, a bridge and a fingerboard (or fretboard). The fretboard is a piece of wood placed on the top surface of the neck, extending from the head to the body. The strings run above the fingerboard. Some fingerboards have frets or bars which the strings are pressed against. This allows musicians to stop the string in the same place. Ebony, rosewood and maple are commonly used to make

1232-415: A variety of router styles, some are plunge, some are D handled, some are double knob handled. Different manufacturers produce the routers for different wood works, as plunge routers, fixed-base wood routers, combo routers, variable-speed routers, laminate trimmers, CNC wood routers. Nowadays, most better quality routers have variable speed controls and will have plunge bases that can also be locked in place so

1309-559: A vibrato bar on the bridge. This allowed players to bend notes. "The contoured body with its beveled corners reduced the chafing on the player's body." It also had cutaway above and below the fretboard to allow players easy access to the top frets. In 1958, Gibson introduced the Explorer and the Flying V. Only about 100 Explorers were produced, and very few of the Flying V. Both were discontinued shortly after. The Flying V did manage to find

1386-660: Is blunt, approaching 90°, and so a Type III chip forms, with waste material produced as fine dust. This dust is a respiratory hazard, even in benign materials. The forces against the cutter are light, so routers may be hand-held. When milling metals, the material is relatively ductile, although remaining strong even at a small scale. A Type II chip forms, and waste may be produced as continuous swarf . Cutter forces are high, so milling machines must be robust and rigid, usually substantial constructions of cast iron. Intermediate materials, such as plastics and sometimes soft aluminium, may be cut by either method, though routing aluminium

1463-477: Is different from milling metal in terms of the mechanics. Chip formation is different, so the optimal tool geometry is different. Routing is properly applied to relatively weak and brittle materials, typically wood. As these materials are weak in small sections, routers can run at extremely high speeds, so even a small router may cut rapidly. Owing to inertia at these high speeds, the normal wood cutting mechanism of Type I chips cannot take place. The cutter edge angle

1540-403: Is important to check to verify the switch is in the off position, prior to plugging it in. For safety, larger router cutters can usually only be used in a router that is mounted in a router table. This makes the tool even more versatile and stable. The purpose of multiple handle arrangements depends on the bit. Control is easier with different configurations. For example, when shaping the edge of

1617-404: Is mounted to the underside of the table, with a hole allowing the bit to protrude above the table top. This allows the work to be passed over the router, rather than passing the router over the work. This has benefits when working with smaller objects and makes some router operations safer to execute. A router table may be fitted with a fence , fingerboards and other work-guiding accessories to make

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1694-572: Is often credited as the first to commercially market a solid-body electric guitar, which itself was based on a design by Merle Travis. In the 1940s, Les Paul created a guitar he called the "Log," which came "from the 4" by 4" solid block of pine which the guitarist had inserted between the sawed halves of the body that he'd just dismembered. He then re-joined the neck to the pine log, using some metal brackets." He then put some pickups that he designed on it. He soon went to companies asking if they would buy his guitar. They turned him down. However, after

1771-425: Is positioned at the finer end of the scale of work done by a molding spindle. That is to say it is able to cut grooves, edge molding, and chamfer or radius the edge of a piece of wood. It is also possible to use it for cutting some joints . The shape of cut that is created is determined by the size and shape of the bit (cutter) held in the collet and the depth by the depth adjustment of the sole plate. There are

1848-711: Is usually more of an improvised expedient than a production process, and is noisy and hard on tools. Routing is usually limited to soft metals (aluminium etc.) and rigid non-metals. Specially designed cutters are used for a variety of patterns, cuts, and edging. Both hand controlled and machine controlled/aided routers are common today. Routing is a shaping process that produces finished edges and shapes. Some materials that are difficult to shape with other processes, such as fiber-glass, Kevlar, and graphite, can be shaped and finished neatly via various routing techniques. Apart from finished edges and shaping, cutaways, holes, and contours can also be shaped using routers. The spindle router

1925-634: The Esquire in Don Randall's RTEC Spring catalogue of that year. The guitar pictured in the catalog was painted black with a white pickguard, but later Esquires were painted with semi-transparent, blonde acetate lacquer, which over the years faded to a "butterscotch" blonde, and the pickguard was black. Unlike the laminated 1.5 inch thick, pine and ash wood samples, the Broadcaster was 1.75 inches thick and made of solid ash . The dual pickup version

2002-604: The Broadcasters and Telecasters of 1951, except for the "Esquire" label on the headstock and the absence of a neck pickup, and although having only one pickup, retained the three-way switch of the two-pickup guitars which allowed players to modify the pickup tone. These Esquires, like the two-pickup version, had a routed cavity in the neck pickup position, which allowed the instrument to be upgraded to Telecaster specifications by adding another pickup and pickguard. Bruce Springsteen plays an Esquire modified in this way. He says

2079-571: The Capital Centre, Joe Walsh used an Esquire for a majority of the performance. Roger Taylor , drummer with the rock band Queen , played a 1967 Esquire on the track " Sheer Heart Attack ". Brian May played the same guitar on " Crazy Little Thing Called Love "; having been unable to find a 'Telecaster sound' reminiscent of 1950s era James Burton with his primary guitar the Red Special , producer Reinhold Mack suggested he "just use

2156-580: The EB-3L. Gibson also created the Thunderbird in 1963, which complemented the Firebird. It had the 34" scale for the neck. This was the same scale as the Fender basses. Other companies have created designs that are different from the Fender and Gibson models. Electric mandolins are similar to electric violins because they traditionally have one pickup. Epiphone marketed an electric mandolin called

2233-612: The Fender Telecaster electric guitar became popular, the Gibson company contacted him and had him endorse a model named after him, the "Les Paul" model. It came out in 1952. While Les Paul was looking for a manufacturer for his log, Leo Fender was working on the Fender Telecaster . It was released in 1950. The Telecaster had a "basic, single- cutaway solid slab of ash for a body and separate screwed-on maple neck

2310-508: The Kelley Electric Machine Company. The early electric routers were quite heavy, and only nominally "portable". In 1915 Oscar and Rudy Onsrud produced an air-powered router, which they referred to as a Jet Motor Hand Router. In the 1930s, Stanley Works acquired a line of portable routers from Roy L. Carter, and marketed an 18000 RPM electric hand router similar to modern routers. Further refinement produced

2387-635: The Les Paul was put back into production in 1968 because Blues and Hard Rock guitarists liked the sound of the Les Pauls. The SG and the Les Paul are still in production today. Fender and Gibson went on to make other well-known models. Gibson made the Melody Maker and the Firebird . Fender later created the Jazzmaster , and Jaguar . Some of the designs that Gibson and Fender created provide

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2464-481: The Mandobird IV and VIII, IV and VIII standing for four and eight strings respectively. They usually have a bolt on neck and a rosewood inlay. The solid body electric violin is different from the traditional violin because it does not have a hollow body and has a "Piezo Pickup with Passive Volume and Tone Controls." These features allow it to be amplified. The body is made of wood, usually maple. The top of

2541-551: The Mustang entered the market. Fender discontinued production of the Esquire in 1969. In 1986, Fender Japan began producing an Esquire model for export to the US, based on the 1954 version, under the brand name "Squier by Fender". The guitar featured threaded saddles and a white pickguard, with either butterscotch blonde or metallic red finish. There were also said to be black and sunburst versions. The Fender Custom Shop manufactures

2618-462: The Telecaster was introduced, the Esquire was marketed as a lower-cost version. Over the following two decades, the availability of other low-cost models saw the Esquire's sales decline and the model was discontinued in 1969. The Esquire has since been reissued, but has remained a relatively "niche" guitar. Esquire users prefer the model's increased treble over the Telecaster. Although the Esquire

2695-511: The basis for many guitars made by various manufacturers today. Woods typically used to make the body of the bass are alder, maple, or mahogany. The double bass was seen as very bulky and not as easy to carry as other string instruments. Paul Tutmarc built an electronic bass that was played the same way as a guitar. This bass was called the Audiovox Model 736 Electronic Bass. "About 100 Audiovox 736 basses were made, and their distribution

2772-407: The bit used must be shaped so it bores into the wood when lowered. The baseplate (sole plate) is generally circular (though this, too, varies by individual models) and may be used in conjunction with a fence attached to the base, which then braces the router against the edge of the work, or via a straight-edge clamped across the work to obtain a straight cut. Other means of guiding the machine include

2849-416: The body was made of pinewood ; it was painted opaque white; its pickguard did not extend below the strings; it lacked a selector switch; and the volume and tone knobs were mounted on a oblique plate. Like the production models, it had a removable pickup cover, but with straight sides. The prototype had only one pickup, as did Esquires manufactured from 1951 onwards. In the winter of 1949/50, Fender refined

2926-452: The cover of his albums Born to Run (1975), Live 1975–85 (1986), Human Touch (1992), and Greatest Hits (1995). Springsteen's guitar is a combination of an Esquire neck and Telecaster body. He bought the guitar in 1971 in Belmar, NJ, for 185 dollars. David Hekhouse of The Tearaways tours with a 1959 Esquire. In 1966, Paul McCartney purchased a 1964 Fender Esquire model with

3003-659: The dangerous situation of the bit coming out of the collet during operation. Many routers come with removable collets for the popular shank sizes (in the US 1 ⁄ 2  in and 1 ⁄ 4  in, in Great Britain 1 ⁄ 2  in, 8 mm and 1 ⁄ 4  in, and metric sizes in Europe—although in the United States the 3 ⁄ 8  in and 8 mm sizes are often only available for an extra cost). Many modern routers allow

3080-416: The design. The neck width at the nut was narrowed to 1 5/8" and, inspired by a Croatian design, the head was modified to allow all six tuners to be installed on one edge. A tone selector switch was added, the controls were mounted on a plate parallel to the strings, and the scratch plate (pickguard) was made bigger. In late spring of 1950, Fender added a second (Champion steel) pickup in the neck position, which

3157-528: The diameter of their shank, with 1 ⁄ 2 -inch, 12 mm, 10 mm, 3 ⁄ 8 -inch, 8 mm and 1 ⁄ 4 -inch and 6 mm shanks (ordered from thickest to thinnest) being the most common. Half-inch bits cost more but, being stiffer, are less prone to vibration (giving smoother cuts) and are less likely to break than the smaller sizes. Care must be taken to ensure the bit shank and router collet sizes match exactly. Failure to do so can cause permanent damage to either or both and can lead to

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3234-535: The feel of a traditional cello. It is played like a traditional cello. The body can be made out of alder. Router (woodworking) The router is a power tool with a flat base and a rotating blade extending past the base. The spindle may be driven by an electric motor or by a pneumatic motor . It routs (hollows out) an area in hard material, such as wood or plastic. Routers are used most often in woodworking , especially cabinetry . They may be handheld or affixed to router tables . Some woodworkers consider

3311-501: The fingerboard. Some electric guitar necks do not have a separate piece of wood for the fingerboard surface. All the solid bodies have variations in scale length or, the length of the strings from the nut to the bridge. The action, or the height of the strings from the fingerboard, is adjustable on solid body instruments. Most solid bodies have controls for volume and tone. Some have an electronic preamplifier with equalization for low, middle, and high frequencies. These are used to shape

3388-449: The first Esquires manufactured in 1950, was made from a single piece of maple, without a separate fret board or truss rod . It was attached to the body with four screws and an anchor plate, unlike traditional guitar construction, in which a tenon on the neck is glued into a slot on the body. The first neck was wider at the nut , and the head had three tuners on each side. The prototype also differed from later production guitars in that

3465-553: The first models of solid-body electric guitar, which may otherwise be claimed to be the first commercially successful solid-body instruments. While noting this, it will be assumed that electric lap steels without sounding boards are solid-body instruments for the purposes of this article. The first commercially successful solid-body instrument was the Rickenbacker frying pan lap steel guitar, produced from 1931 to 1939. The first commercially available non lap steel electric guitar

3542-479: The guitar he is pictured with on the Born to Run album cover is a hybrid consisting of a Telecaster body and Esquire neck, but it is actually a first-generation Esquire with two pickup cavities. Springsteen's guitar has a neck pickup installed, but not connected. The Esquire was reintroduced in 1951 to provide a less expensive option than the two-pickup version, but its popularity declined as cheaper student models like

3619-559: The horizontal router table, in which the table remains horizontal but the router is mounted vertically above the table, so that the router bit cuts from the side. This alternative is for edge operations, such as panel raising and slot cutting. Router bits come in a large variety of designs to create either decorative effects or joinery aids. Generally, they are classified as either high-speed steel (HSS) or carbide-tipped , however some recent innovations such as solid carbide bits provide even more variety for specialized tasks. Aside from

3696-423: The joinery used in frame and panel construction. One bit is designed to cut the grove in the rail and stile pieces while the other shapes the edge of the panel to fit in the grove. A CNC wood router is a computer controlled machine to which the router or spindle mounts. The CNC Machine can be either a moving gantry style, where the table is fixed and the router spindle moves over it, or fixed bridge design, where

3773-450: The legendary "Boom Chicka Boom Sound" that identified Johnny Cash's music. Steve Cropper with Booker T played his fifties Esquire through a Fender Harvard amplifier for tunes such as Green Onions and Dock of the Bay with Otis Redding . Bruce Springsteen has used a 1953 Fender Esquire as his main touring and recording guitar throughout his career. He can be seen holding the guitar on

3850-469: The materials they are made of, bits can be classified as edge bits or non-edge bits, and whether the bit is designed to be anti-kickback . Edge bits have a small wheel bearing to act as a fence against the work in making edge moldings. These bearings can be changed by using commercially available bearing kits. Changing the bearing, in effect, changes the diameter of the cutting edge. This is especially important with rabbeting/rebating bits. Non-edge bits require

3927-427: The more recently developed "D-handle". There are two standard types of router—plunge and fixed. When using a plunge-base router , the sole of the base is placed on the face of the work with the cutting bit raised above the work, then the motor is turned on and the cutter is lowered into the work. With a fixed-base router , the cut depth is set before the tool is turned on. The sole plate is then either rested flat on

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4004-438: The operation safer and more accurate. A simple router table consists of a rigid top with the router bolted or screwed directly to the underside. More complex solutions can be developed to allow the router to be easily removed from the table as well as facilitate adjusting the router's bit height using a lift mechanism; there is a wide range of commercially available systems. In this mode, the router can perform tasks similar to

4081-511: The plunge router, invented by ELU (now part of DeWalt ) in Germany around 1949. Modern routers are often used in place of traditional moulding planes or spindle moulder machines for edge decoration (moulding) of timber. Routing is a high speed process of cutting, trimming, and shaping wood, metal, plastic, and a variety of other materials. Routing and milling are conceptually similar, and end mills can be used in routers, but routing wood

4158-511: The right bits and accessories (such as plastic router bases). Before power routers existed, the router plane was often used for the same purpose. An incremental step toward modern power routers was the foot-pedal operated router, such as the Barnes Former/Shaper, available in 1877. Barnes patented a reversible rotary cutting head in 1889. The first portable power router was patented in 1906 by George Kelley and marketed by

4235-402: The router can be used as a fixed-base router. Some have a soft-start feature, meaning they build up speed gradually. This feature is particularly desirable for routers with a large cutter. Holding a 3-horsepower router and turning it on without a soft-start is potentially dangerous, due to the torque of the motor. Holding it with two hands is a must. For routers with a toggle type on/off switch it

4312-533: The router one of the most versatile power tools. There is also a traditional hand tool known as a router plane , a form of hand plane with a broad base and a narrow blade projecting well beyond the base plate. CNC wood routers add the advantages of computer numerical control (CNC). The laminate trimmer is a smaller, lighter version of the router. Although it is designed for trimming laminates , it can also be used for smaller general routing work. Rotary tools can also be used similarly to routers with

4389-418: The six strings that reach from the fretboard to the bridge. Electric violas are designed similar to electric violins. They usually have the same features. Electric cellos are similar to regular cellos, but they have a smaller body. Some electric cellos have no body branching out from the middle where the strings are. Some electric cellos have the out line of the traditional body around the middle, creating

4466-443: The sound along with the aid of the main instrument amplifier. Amplifiers allow solid body instruments to be heard at high volumes when desired. Solid-body instruments : Solid-body instruments do not include : Electric lap steel guitars without sounding boards are considered to be solid-body instruments by some authorities, and not by others. This has a major effect on some claims of historical priority, as they predate

4543-471: The speed of the bit's rotation to be varied. A slower rotation allows bits of larger cutting diameter to be used safely. Typical speeds range from 8,000 to 30,000 rpm. Router bits can be made to match almost any imaginable profile. Custom router bits can be ordered. They are especially beneficial for home restoration projects, where production of the original trim and molding has been discontinued. Sometimes complementary bits come in sets designed to facilitate

4620-406: The table moves underneath the router spindle, or hand-held style, where the operator moves the machine to the area to be cut and the machine controls the fine adjustments. CAD / CAM software programming is used to model the part that is to be created in the computer and then create a tool path for the machine to follow to cut out the part. The CNC moves along three axes (X-Y-Z). Most CNC routers have

4697-423: The template guide bushing secured in the base around the router cutter, or router cutters with built-in guide bearings. Both of these run against a straight edge or shaped template. Without this, the varying reaction of the wood against the torque of the tool makes it impossible to control with the precision normally required. A router may be mounted upside down in a router table or bench. The router's base plate

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4774-474: The tone. It introduced the square edged dreadnought shape, with a cutaway on the body next to the neck to allow access to the upper frets . It featured a combination bridge and pickup assembly, which used the pickup from Fender's "Champion" lap steel guitar, with individual pole pieces for each string mounted at a slant, and three bridge saddles, which allowed adjustment of individual string height, but adjustment of intonation only in pairs. The neck , on

4851-540: The two model names had no model name on the head stock and are now referred to as 'No Casters"). Fender also produced a one pickup version called the Fender Esquire starting in 1950. These were followed by the Gibson Les Paul in 1952. The solid-body electric guitar is recognisable and features in rock, metal, blues, and country music. The first commercially available solid-body electric Spanish guitar

4928-412: The use of a fence, either on a router table or attached to the work or router. Anti-kickback bits employ added non-cutting bit material around the circumference of the bit's shoulders which serves to limit feed-rate. This reduces the chance that the workpiece is pushed too deeply into the bit (which would result in significant kickback from the cutting edge being unable to compensate). Bits also differ by

5005-474: The violin might be made out of flame maple or solid spruce. The body of the electric violin compared to an acoustic violin has cutaways that allow for weight reduction and a lighter body. While a regular sitar has 21, 22, or 23 strings an electric sitar is designed similar to a guitar. It first appeared in 1967 when "Vinnie Bell invented the Coral electric sitar, a small six-string guitar-like instrument producing

5082-399: The workpiece overhanging the edge so that the cutting bit is not contacting the work (and then entering the work from the side once the motor is turned on), or the sole plate is placed at an angle with the bit above the work and the bit is "rocked" over into the work once the motor is turned on. In each case, the bit cuts its way in, but the plunge router does it in a more refined way, although

5159-700: Was also produced by the Rickenbacker/Electro company, starting in 1931 The model was referred to as the "electric Spanish Guitar" to distinguish it from the "Hawaiian" lap steel. The first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar was the Fender Broadcaster in 1950. A trademark dispute with the Gretsch Corporation who marketed a line of Broadcaster drums led to a name change to the current designation, Fender Telecaster in 1951 (Transition instruments produced between

5236-483: Was another prominent Esquire player. His successor David Gilmour used an Esquire with an added pickup on several songs, including " Dogs ," " Run Like Hell " and his work on Paul McCartney's album Run Devil Run . Gilmour also uses an Esquire on his 2015 solo album, Rattle That Lock , notably on many of the album's guitar solos. On the single, " Born to Be Wild " by Steppenwolf , guitarist Michael Monarch played an Esquire. At Eagles 1977's live performance at

5313-518: Was apparently limited to the Seattle area." The idea did not catch on and the company folded. In the late 1940s when dance bands downsized, guitar players who lost their positions playing guitar were told they could play double bass. However, "they did not want to take the time to learn upright technique. They needed a bass they could play like a guitar-a fretted bass." Leo Fender heard these criticisms and took his telecaster model and adopted it to

5390-671: Was designed to look like a violin. It had a single pickup. It also had an endpin which allowed the bass player to play it vertically. In 1959 Gibson created the EB-0 which was designed to complement the Les Paul Junior . In 1961 it was redesigned to match the SG guitar and the EB-) designation was retained. A two pickup version was later introduced called the EB-3 and a long scale variant was made called

5467-558: Was dropped, and guitars were shipped in 1951 with the "Fender" logo decal clipped and no model name. These guitars were referred to as the "Nocaster" until the name Telecaster was adopted in August 1951, after a competition had failed to find a suitable alternative. Television was becoming popular and the name stuck. The single pickup version retained the Esquire name. The more versatile Broadcaster/Telecaster became one of Fender's most popular models, with dozens of variations produced. After

5544-607: Was first manufactured in May and June 1950. Neither of the early Esquire versions had a truss rod. Fullerton’s father, Fred Fullerton, developed the truss rod reinforcement system which is still in use. By October 1950, the revised, dual pickup version had acquired a truss rod and was renamed the Broadcaster . After objections were sent to Don Randall by the Gretsch company, who produced the "Broadkaster" banjo and drum kit, this name

5621-471: Was geared to mass production. It had a slanted pickup mounted into a steel bridge-plate carrying three adjustable bridge-saddles." Its color was blond. It is considered "the world's first commercially marketed solid body electric guitar." . The Telecaster continues to be manufactured today. The follow-up to the Telecaster, the Stratocaster , appeared in 1954. It had three pickups instead of two. It had

5698-649: Was produced by the Rickenbacker company in 1931. The Songster electric guitar was made between 1936 and 1939 by the Slingerland Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois. Also it is reported that around the same time (1940) a solid body was created by Jamaican musician and inventor Hedley Jones . Les Paul, a guitarist, is often credited with inventing the first solid body, but Fender

5775-538: Was redesigned with a smaller pickup to allow easier picking, and encased in a metal shielding cover designed by Karl Olmstead. This feature did not appear on Fender's commercially advertised instrument, as the distributor, the Radio & Television Equipment Company (RTEC), preferred to sell the single pickup version. The single pickup version of the guitar was first manufactured in March 1950, and made its commercial debut as

5852-646: Was the first Esquire endorser for Don Randall's advertisements. George and Leo took a new Broadcaster out to show Jimmy Bryant at the Rancho Reveler soon afterward. He first played it on the edge of the stage with an admiring crowd up close. In 1954, Luther Perkins played a slightly modified Esquire, recording the first Johnny Cash songs " Wide Open Road " and " Hey Porter ". This guitar can also be heard on all records before " I Walk The Line ", for which Perkins played an Esquire. Throughout his career Perkins used various Esquires. With this guitar, Perkins created

5929-463: Was the original model, the popularity and uninterrupted production of the Telecaster means that the limited reissue Esquire models are generally regarded and billed as variants of the Telecaster. Production and promotion of the single pickup Esquire ceased briefly after the arrival of the Telecaster. It was reintroduced in January 1951 equipped with a truss rod. The second generation Esquires resembled

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