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Fender Custom Shop Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire - Aged Black

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Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire - Aged Black

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Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire - Aged Black
Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire - Aged Black
Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire - Aged Black
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Perhaps the rarest Fender® guitar is its first onethe single-pickup pine-body Esquire®. The very first Fender electric solid-body guitar. Wasn't even around for a full year, and yet it changed guitar music forever. Fender shipped barely a handful of them before changing the body to ash and the finish to blonde.

True to the original, this faithful recreation features a slightly thinner (1.5") laminated pine body. Its one-piece rift-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-cared-for original with only slight aging to its metal parts. A hand-wound '50-'51 Blackguard pickup is outfitted with full-throttle Esquire wiring (Position 1: Volume and Tone, Position 2: Volume, Position 3: Pickup Straight to Output) with a three-way switch. Other features include a single-ply eggshell pickguard, 1950 Esquire bridge with original style steel saddles, vintage-style tuning machines, and disk string tree. Includes deluxe hardshell case, strap, 1950 Esquire control assembly, and certificate of authenticity.

Specifications
Series: Vintage Custom
Colour: Aged Black
Body: 2-Piece Sandwich Style Pine
Body Finish: NOS Flash Coat Lacquer
Body Shape: Esquire
Neck: 1-Piece Rift Sawn Maple
Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Neck Shape: 1950 Esquire® "U"
Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
Fingerboard: Maple
Fingerboard Radius: 7.25" to 9.5" Compound Radius (184 mm to 241 mm)
Frets/Size: 21 Medium Vintage
String Nut/Width: Bone / 1.650" (42 mm)
Position Inlays: Black Dot
Pickups: SS Configuration
• Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound '50-'51 Blackguard
Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Pickup Straight to Output Jack, Position 2. Pickup with Volume Control, Position 3. Pickup with Volume and Tone Control
Bridge: 3-Saddle '50 Esquire® with Original Style Steel Saddles
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
Pickguard: 1-Ply Eggshell
Control Knobs: Knurled Dome
Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)

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Nice Guitar, But... 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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Plays nicely and has a variety of sounds in spite of having only 1 p-u. Love the 1 pc neck and no truss-rod. Fatter sound, more sustain. But specs are off. Body is 1.75", not 1.5" . Finish isn't nitro. It's thicker. Neck p-u cavity too small to fit included neck p-u. Like the guitar & would have rated it higher if some details & specs weren't off.
Posted by John on Nov 8, 2023
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