Description
Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire Aged Black
Perhaps the rarest Fender® guitar is its first onethe single-pickup pine-body Esquire®. The very first Fender electric solid-body guitar. Wasnt 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.
- Body: 2-Piece Sandwich Style Pine
- Body Finish: NOS Flash Coat Lacquer
- Control Knobs: Knurled Dome
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Pickguard: 1-Ply Eggshell
- Position Inlays: Black Dot
- Body Shape: Esquire®
- Neck Material: 1-Piece Rift Sawn Maple
- Neck Shape: 1950 Esquire® « U »
- Scale Length: 25.5″ (648 mm)
- Fingerboard Radius: 7.25″ to 9.5″ Compound Radius (184 mm to 241 mm)
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: Medium Vintage
- String Nut: Bone
- Nut Width: 1.650″ (42 mm)
- Truss Rod: None
- 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
- Pickup Configuration: SS
- Bridge: 3-Saddle ’50 Esquire® with Original Style Steel Saddles
- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
- Strings: Nickel Plated Steel (.010-.046 Gauges)
- Case/Gig Bag: Deluxe Hardshell
