Fender Custom Shop Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire®
Perhaps the rarest of Fender® guitars is its first, the single-pickup, pine-bodied Esquire®. Fender's very first full-body electric guitar. It didn't even exist for a year, yet it changed guitar music forever. Fender delivered just a handful before changing the body to ash and the finish to blonde. True to the original, this faithful reproduction features a slightly thinner (1.5") laminated pine body. Its one-piece sawn maple neck has a 1950 Esquire profile, no truss rod, a 7.25"-9.5" vintage compound radius and 21 medium vintage frets. With its NOS "flash coat" nitrocellulose lacquer finish and Closet Classic hardware, the Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire looks like a well-maintained original with only slight aging of its metal parts. A hand-wound Blackguard pickup from the '50s and '51s is equipped with full Esquire wiring (position 1: volume and tone, position 2: volume, position 3: straight pickup to output) with a three-way switch. Other features include an eggshell pickguard, 1950 Esquire bridge with original-style steel saddles, vintage-style tuners and disc string tree. Includes deluxe case, strap, 1950 Esquire control kit and certificate of authenticity.
Specifications
Body
Body: 2-Piece Sandwich Style Pine
Body finish: Flash Coat NOS lacquer
Body shape : Esquire®
Orientation : Right-handed
Neck
Fingerboard: Maple
Neck shape: 1950 Esquire® "U" shape
Neck profile type: U-shape
Inlay : Black dot
Neck finish: Nitrocellulose lacquer
Neck material: One-piece sawn maple
Fingerboard radius: Vintage compound radius from 7.25" to 9.5" (184 mm to 241 mm)
Fingerboard Radius Type: Compound
Frets size : Vintage medium
Number of frets: 21
Saddle material: Bone
Saddle width: 1.650" (42 mm)
Scale: 25.5" (64.77 cm)
Truss rod: None
Hardware
Control knobs: Knurled dome
Hardware finish: Chrome
Pickguard: 1-ply Eggshell
Bridge: 3 '50 Esquire® saddles with original-style steel saddles
