<P> The origins of the solid body electric guitar are confusing . The first commercially available solid body electric Spanish guitar was produced by the Rickenbacker company in 1931 . Les Paul , a guitarist , is often erroneously credited with inventing the first solid body , but Fender is often incorrectly credited as the first to commercially market a solid body electric guitar , which itself was based on a design by Merle Travis . Also it is reported that around the same time ( 1940 ) a solid body was created by Jamaican musician and inventor , Hedley Jones . In the 1940s , Les Paul created a guitar 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 carefully 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 the Fender Telecaster electric guitar became popular , the Gibson company contacted him and had him endorse a model named after him , The Les Paul guitar . It came out in 1952 . </P>
<P> The origins of the solid body electric guitar are confusing . The first commercially available solid body electric Spanish guitar was produced by the Rickenbacker company in 1931 . Les Paul , a guitarist , is often erroneously credited with inventing the first solid body , but Fender is often incorrectly credited as the first to commercially market a solid body electric guitar , which itself was based on a design by Merle Travis . Also it is reported that around the same time ( 1940 ) a solid body was created by Jamaican musician and inventor , Hedley Jones . In the 1940s , Les Paul created a guitar 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 carefully 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 the Fender Telecaster electric guitar became popular , the Gibson company contacted him and had him endorse a model named after him , The Les Paul guitar . It came out in 1952 . </P>
who created the first solid body electric guitar
who created the first solid body electric guitar
the Rickenbacker company
the Rickenbacker company