Jagg Man

[SG John]

Ah! Arguably one if not THE first solidbody electrics: Bigsby Merle Travis. Bit of controversy over the headstock: earliest photos are somewhere from '47/'48 and the headstock is different, kinda squarish. But then it landed in the hands of a guitarist named George Grohs and the famous Fender scroll style appears. But the question is was it done before or after Leo Fender started using it in 1952 and people have argued back and forth over who stole from who

The six on a side headstock has been used by German and Austrian guitar makers since sometime in the sixteen or seventeen hundreds. There were a few on display at the "Dangerous Curves" exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts back in 2000. Martin had them in the eighteen hundreds.

Stauffer Guitar