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Post subject: Was the Strat the first fender guitar
Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:19 pm
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was it?


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nope the Telecaster came first though it was called Broadcaster back then....

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Actually, it was the Esquire. A one pickup version of, what we now know as the Telecaster.


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I your talkin electric then it was the esquier but acoustics came first


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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:57 pm
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Fender didn't start making acoustics until the 60's.


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23fender, let me introduce you two two amazing internet sites:

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www.wikipedia.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Esquire


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Leo Fender and Doc Kauffman were building lap-steel guitars with magnetic pickups commercially in the mid-1940s. Around 1943 they built a solid body guitar as a test rig for pickups. In 1949 Leo Fender began work on the Esquire guitar which went into limited production with one- and two-pickup versions in 1950.

A trussrod was added in November 1950 and the two-pickup guitar became the Broadcaster. Gretsch already had the name (on a drumkit) so it was quickly changed to the Telecaster.

One-pickup Esquires with trussrods began production in 1951. The Stratocaster came along in 1954.

However. Les Paul had built a solid "test" guitar as early as 1940, and throughout the '40s various makers, such as Rickenbacker, Merle Travis and Paul Bigsby experimented with solids.

Fender's Esquire/Broadcaster probably qualifies as the first production run solid body, but others can claim to have come up with the concept simultaneously, if not commercially.

I am SUCH a geek!


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Ceri wrote:
Leo Fender and Doc Kauffman were building lap-steel guitars with magnetic pickups commercially in the mid-1940s. Around 1943 they built a solid body guitar as a test rig for pickups. In 1949 Leo Fender began work on the Esquire guitar which went into limited production with one- and two-pickup versions in 1950.

A trussrod was added in November 1950 and the two-pickup guitar became the Broadcaster. Gretsch already had the name (on a drumkit) so it was quickly changed to the Telecaster.

One-pickup Esquires with trussrods began production in 1951. The Stratocaster came along in 1954.

However. Les Paul had built a solid "test" guitar as early as 1940, and throughout the '40s various makers, such as Rickenbacker, Merle Travis and Paul Bigsby experimented with solids.

Fender's Esquire/Broadcaster probably qualifies as the first production run solid body, but others can claim to have come up with the concept simultaneously, if not commercially.

I am SUCH a geek!


Great story! i think a couple of very well known guitar gods were geeks... at least two that I can think of.


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Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:23 am
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Ceri wrote:
Leo Fender and Doc Kauffman were building lap-steel guitars with magnetic pickups commercially in the mid-1940s. Around 1943 they built a solid body guitar as a test rig for pickups. In 1949 Leo Fender began work on the Esquire guitar which went into limited production with one- and two-pickup versions in 1950.

A trussrod was added in November 1950 and the two-pickup guitar became the Broadcaster. Gretsch already had the name (on a drumkit) so it was quickly changed to the Telecaster.

One-pickup Esquires with trussrods began production in 1951. The Stratocaster came along in 1954.

However. Les Paul had built a solid "test" guitar as early as 1940, and throughout the '40s various makers, such as Rickenbacker, Merle Travis and Paul Bigsby experimented with s

Fender's Esquire/Broadcaster probably qualifies as the first production run solid body, but others can claim to have come up with the concept simultaneously, if not commercially.

I am SUCH a geek!


Thanks Ceri it's some news for me :wink:


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