The 1957 Esquire is a solid body electric guitar built by Fender. This Telecaster style bolt on guitar was manufactured in Fullerton, CA in the United States and is a Fender Vintage Electric Guitar model. Key features include an Ash Body, Maple Neck, Single Ply White Pickguard, Single Line Kluson Tuners, Staggered Pole Single Coil Bridge Pickup and Blonde finish. The specs listed below pertain to the 1957 product year model pictured on this page. The main difference between an Esquire and Telecaster in this era is that the Esquire model lacks a neck pickup. Additionally, since the 3-way switch isn't used for pickup selection on a single pickup guitar, Fender wired it for use with just the bridge pickup. Position one is the bridge pickup with no tone control, position two is the bridge pickup with tone control enabled, and position three is the dark or "mud" circuit which is essentially a treble cut, dark bass sound.
Factory Specs
- Ash Body
- One Piece Maple Neck
- 21 Frets
- Black Dot Fingerboard Inlays
- Narrow Tall Fret Wire
- Butterfly String Tree
- Silver Spaghetti Fender Logo
- Single Line Kluson Deluxe Tuners
- Bolt-On Construction
- Single Ply White Pickguard
- Ashtray Bridge
- Smooth Steel Saddles
- Staggered Pole Single Coil Bridge Pickup
- No Neck Pickup
- One Volume & One Tone Control
- 3-Way Switch
- Mud Circuit 3rd Position
- Fine Knurl Flat Top Knobs
- Top Hat Switch Tip
- Transparent Blonde Lacquer Body Finish
- Natural Lacquer Neck Finish
- 25.5" Scale Length
- 1.650" Nut With
- 7.25" Radius
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