It’s pretty damn cool that the very first commercially produced solidbody electric guitar, the Fender Esquire, can still kick serious butt today; you can’t say that about too many 75-year-olds.

It came off the line at Leo Fender's guitar factory in Fullerton, Calif., in 1954: Seven pounds of maple and ash and crude electronics. He called it the Broadcaster. Then, the Esquire. Then ...

The Fender company calls the Esquire the first solid-body electric guitar. Unfortunately, according to the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Fender only made about 50 of these original guitars.