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Paul Bigsby: Official YouTube Page
Inventor * Engineer * Designer * Manufacturer
Bigsby Guitars & Crocker Motorcycles

"I can build anything."
With that statement, Mr. Paul Bigsby switched from building Crocker motorcycles to making musical instruments.

In the 1940s, Paul Adelburt Bigsby was a skilled foreman at a machine shop in Los Angeles owned by Albert Crocker of the famous Crocker Motorcycle Company. Paul's interest in motorcycles and Western music brought him into contact with Merle Travis. As they both were avid motorcyclists and music lovers, Paul and Merle became good friends.

During this same time, Merle brought his Gibson L-10 guitar to P.A., as Bigsby was called, with a worn out Kaufman vibrato that wouldn't stay in tune. "Can you fix this for me?" asked Merle. "I can fix anything" said Paul. But seeing the shortcomings of the Kaufman vibrato and at Merle's suggestion, he ended up designing a whole new mechanism which worked perfectly. This device set the standard and became the vibrato of choice for most guitar manufacturers the world over and remains so today.

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