Original 1931 A-22 The world's first commercially available solid body electric guitar was the Rickenbacker A-22 which debuted in 1932, eighteen years before Leo Fender released his first guitar. It had a small round body which with the neck sticking out of it engendered it's nickname of the "frying pan", The nickname was doubly fitting as the neck and body were cast as a single piece of aluminum. Not many of these were sold because it was the height of the Great Depression

What would you get if an accordion and a guitar had a baby? The Hagstrom P46!!! Hagstrom Accordion Hagstrom was a traditional maker of accordions in Sweden and they decided to get into the guitar market in the late 1950s. Of course, they incorporated many of their accordion design features into their guitars. Things like the shiny pearloid body covering, lots of buttons, gold trim, etc. Their initial top of the line guitar in 1958 was the Hagstrom De Luxe or P46 model. It c