Editing Electric guitar (section)

===Solid-body===
[[File:Fender_Highway_1_Stratocaster.jpg|thumb|170px|The [[Fender Stratocaster]] has one of the most often emulated electric guitar shapes<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E2DD1139F931A25752C1A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | title=ART/ARCHITECTURE; Strummed by One Hand, Sculptured by Another | first=David | last=D'arcy | date=November 12, 2000 | access-date=May 2, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Ed Mitchell (Total Guitar) |url=http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/in-praise-of-the-fender-stratocaster-521292/ |title=IN PRAISE OF: The Fender Stratocaster &#124; IN PRAISE OF: The Fender Stratocaster |publisher=MusicRadar |date=2011-12-28 |access-date=2013-12-14}}</ref>]]
Unlike acoustic guitars, [[solid-body]] electric guitars have no vibrating soundboard to amplify string vibration. Instead, solid-body instruments depend on electric pickups, and an [[amplifier]] ("amp") and [[Loudspeaker|speaker]]. The solid body ensures that the amplified sound reproduces the string vibration alone, thus avoiding the [[wolf tone]]s and unwanted [[Audio feedback|feedback]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mottola |first1=R.M. |title=Mottola's Cyclopedic Dictionary of Lutherie Terms |date=1 January 2020 |publisher=LiutaioMottola.com |isbn=978-1-7341256-0-3 |page=58 |url=https://www.liutaiomottola.com/books/dictionary.htm |ref=Mottola's Cyclopedic Dictionary of Lutherie Terms}}</ref> associated with amplified acoustic guitars. These guitars are generally made of hardwood covered with a hard [[polymer]] finish, often polyester or lacquer. In large production facilities, the wood is stored for three to six months in a wood-drying [[kiln]] before being cut to shape. Premium custom-built guitars are frequently made with much older (thus fully dried, cured and stabilized, that is to say, less prone to deformation), hand-selected wood.

One of the first solid-body guitars was invented by [[Les Paul]]. [[Gibson Guitar Corporation|Gibson]] did not present their [[Gibson Les Paul]] guitar prototypes to the public, as they did not believe the solid-body style would catch on. Another early solid-body Spanish style guitar, resembling what would become Gibson's Les Paul guitar a decade later, was developed in 1941 by O.W. Appleton, of Nogales, Arizona.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.owappleton.com/ |title=O. W. Appleton Home Page |publisher=Worldwide Filmworks |year=2012 |access-date=25 July 2013}}</ref> Appleton made contact with both Gibson and Fender but was unable to sell the idea behind his "App" guitar to either company.<ref>Wheeler, Tom (1982). ''American Guitars: An Illustrated History''. Harper & Row. p. 8. {{ISBN|0060149965}}.</ref> In 1946, [[Merle Travis]] commissioned steel guitar builder [[Paul Bigsby]] to build him a solid-body Spanish-style electric.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ross|first1=Michael|title=Forgotten Heroes: Paul Bigsby|url=http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Forgotten_Heroes_Paul_Bigsby?page=2|website=Premier Guitar|date=17 November 2011 |access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref> Bigsby delivered the guitar in 1948. The first mass-produced solid-body guitar was [[Fender Esquire]] and [[Fender Broadcaster]] (later to become the [[Fender Telecaster]]), first made in 1950, five years after Les Paul made his [[prototype]]. The Gibson Les Paul appeared soon after to compete with the Broadcaster.<ref>Ratcliffe, Alan (2005) ''Electric Guitar Handbook'', UK: New Holland Publishers, p. 11. {{ISBN|1-84537-042-2}}.</ref> Another notable solid-body design is the [[Fender Stratocaster]], which was introduced in 1954 and became extremely popular among musicians in the 1960s and 1970s for its wide tonal capabilities and more comfortable ergonomics than other models. Different styles of guitar have different pick-up styles, the main being 2 or 3 "[[Single coil guitar pickup|single-coil]]" pick-ups or a double [[humbucker]], with the Stratocaster being a triple single-coil guitar.

The history of electric guitars has been summarized by ''[[Guitar World]]'' magazine, and the earliest electric guitar on their top 10 list is the Ro-Pat-In Electro A-25 "Frying Pan" (1932) described as "The first-fully functioning solid-body electric guitar to be manufactured and sold".<ref name="guitarworld.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/10-most-important-electric-guitars |title=Guitar World Magazine Tolinkski and Di Perna |year=2017 |access-date=17 April 2018}}</ref> It was the first electric guitar used in a publicly promoted performance, performed by [[Gage Brewer]] in [[Wichita, Kansas]] in October 1932.<ref name="history_2023_03_02_guitarworld">Tolinski, Brad: [https://www.guitarworld.com/features/the-50-greatest-moments-in-electric-guitar-history "The 50 greatest moments in electric guitar history,"] March 2, 2023, ''[[Guitar World]],'' retrieved July 9, 2023</ref><ref name="history_2021_12_07_mim_org">[https://mim.org/marking-history-in-musical-treasures/ "Marking History in Musical Treasures,"] December 7, 2021, [[Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix)|Musical Instrument Museum]], retrieved July 9, 2023</ref><ref name="electricity_2021_03_05_guitar">Scott, Josh: [https://guitar.com/features/opinion-analysis/josh-scott-electricity-meets-guitar/ "Electricity Meets Guitar: How we turned a lightning bolt into rock ’n’ roll,"] March 5, 2021, ''[[Guitar.com]],'' retrieved July 9, 2023</ref> The most recent electric guitar on this list was the [[Ibanez JEM|Ibanez Jem]] (1987) which featured "24 frets", an impossibly thin neck" and was "designed to be the ultimate shredder machine". Numerous other important electric guitars are on the list, including Gibson ES-150 (1936), Fender Telecaster (1951), Gibson Les Paul (1952), Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet (1953), Fender Stratocaster (1954), Rickenbacker 360/12 (1964), [[Frankenstrat|Van Halen Frankenstrat]] (1975), Paul Reed Smith Custom (1985) many of these guitars were "successors" to earlier designs.<ref name="guitarworld.com"/> Electric guitar designs eventually became culturally important and visually iconic, with various model companies selling miniature model versions of particularly famous electric guitars, for example, the [[Gibson SG]] used by [[Angus Young]] from the group [[AC/DC]].