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Made in China under the Squier brand as a more budget conscious variant. J5 Signature Telecaster, outfitted with a fixed Telecaster bridge, a custom Alnico V humbucker in the neck position, and a custom ceramic humbucker in the bridge position. This variant has an alder body with white binding on the top and back and a standard Telecaster ...
Bigsby is a brand of guitars and guitar accessories that operated as an independent company by Paul Bigsby until 1966 when it was purchased by ex-Gibson executive Ted McCarty. In 1999, the brand was acquired by Gretsch from McCarty, which owned it until 2019, when Bigsby was sold to Fender Musical Instruments Corporation .
A second model with had the Fidelitron pickup in the neck position, but opted for a traditional Telecaster single coil pickup in the bridge, plus a licensed version of the Bigsby B5 vibrato system, [2] something not offered on any of the North American guitars. These were built in Indonesia and featured a 22 fret neck and vintage style tuners ...
Paul Adelburt Bigsby (1899–1968) [1] [2] was an American inventor, designer, and pioneer of the solid body electric guitar. Bigsby is best known for designing the Bigsby vibrato tailpiece (also mislabeled as a tremolo arm ) and proprietor of Bigsby Electric Guitars .
The Standard model of the James Burton Telecaster was introduced in 1996 and features a solid alder body finished in Two-Tone-Sunburst or Candy Apple Red with a 1-ply white pickguard. This model was inspired by Burton's third guitar, the 1953 Telecaster that he played on the seminal 1957 recording of "Susie Q" with Dale Hawkins. [5]
This is the original B-Bender guitar, built by White and Gene Parsons around 1967, designed to allow the guitarist to manually raise the guitar's 'B' string one whole step to play pedal steel style licks. Marty Stuart bought this unique guitar in 1980 from White's widow. [15] [16] [17]
Bigsby was inspired to create a new vibrato system after being tasked by Merle Travis to repair the Kauffman Vibrola on his Gibson L-10. [2] The Bigsby system would debut in 1951, [2] with the first example going to Travis. [3] By the mid-1950s, Bigsby had ceased production of his own guitars and began only producing a range of vibrato ...
His design for a solid body electric guitar, built for him by Paul Bigsby with a single row of tuners, is thought to have inspired his longtime pal Leo Fender's design of the famous Broadcaster in 1950. [1] The Travis-Bigsby guitar now resides in the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum in Nashville.