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Around 1958, BO DIDDLEY built the world’s first square guitar by taking the neck and the electrics off a Gretsch guitar and putting them onto a square body that he had constructed. Later that year he commissioned Gretsch’s Brooklyn factory to make him another square guitar, which he nicknamed “Big B”. Two decades later, and despite having it rebuilt twice and adding new electronic effects to it, “Big B” had become almost obsolete. We are very grateful to Chris Kinman of Kinman Guitar Electrix in Brisbane, Australia for supplying us with the following recollections of how he came to build his next square guitar, the one that BO DIDDLEY dubbed “The Mean Machine”.
