Hagstrom Solid Body Electric Guitars

When you take the stage, your guitar is like an extension of yourself. That makes your choice an important one, and since every guitarist has his or her own preferences, a personal one as well. With their 1950s and '60s-inspired designs, Hagstrom solid body electric guitars are ideal axes to meet those lofty expectations for lots of world-class guitarists. Take Pat Smear for example - he owns one of the largest Hagstrom collections anywhere. Hagstrom didn't always make guitars, though. When they started out in the 1920s, their main business was importing accordions to Sweden. They branched out in 1958, becoming the first company outside of the U.S. to professionally mass-produce electric guitars. Early Hagstrom models were characterized by style cues they borrowed from accordions, and some of that original styling lives on today in the form of chromed accents, dramatic rectangular pickups and tuning machines with a distin