Paul Bigsby

Paul A. Bigsby was the designer of the Bigsby tremolo arm and proprieter of Bigsby Guitars. He also built the Travis-Bigsby guitar, a famous one-off solid body electric guitar for country musician Merle Travis. This guitar likely had an influence on the Telecaster later produced by Leo Fender, and its headstock shape was later made famous by Fender's Stratocaster model.

Before this, he was the foreman of Crocker Motorcycles, and designed many components, for example the overhead-valve cylinder head for their first V-twin motorcycle.