Fender Custom Shop1959 Esquire Relic - Shell Pink R67152

Fender Custom Shop 1959 Esquire Relic – Shell Pink – R67152
The guitar that started it all. The lore of the Fender Esquire is well-known—Leo Fender’s first marketed design, originally released in 1950, heard on all your favorite recordings from the 50s, 60s, and beyond. Fender Custom Shop is putting the Esquire right back into your hands with the 1959 Esquire Relic, an instrument that is tonally faithful to the original single-pickup Esquire introduced in the 50s. The Fender Custom Shop 1959 Esquire Relic has an alder body for beefy mids and lows, finished in a tastefully aged relic Shell Pink laquer finish to suggest an instrument that has been gently used for at least a few decades. A hand selected rosewood fingerboard with 9.5” radius and 21 medium jumbo frets is a delight to play and allows you to bend notes with clarity all the way up the neck. Fender Custom Shop’s Twisted Tele single coil pickup in the bridge gives you the classic Tele punch with a more bell-like, balanced tone. An added bonus, the ’59 Esquire gets the Eldred Esquire mod. Mike Eldred from Fender Custom Shop devised a clever way to wire a 3-position switch into this single-pickup guitar: position one sends the pickup output straight to the volume control and bypasses the tone circuit; position two routs the signal through the tone control (a Grease Bucket circuit); position 3 bypasses the tone control in favor of a smaller capacitor that provides a remarkably accurate Strat tone.
Fender Custom Shop 1959 Esquire Relic Features



Aging type: Relic
Serial Number: R67152
Shell Pink laquer finish
Alder body
Mid 60s style oval “C” neck
Hand selected dark rosewood fingerboard
9.5” fretboard radius
25.5” scale length
21 Tall, jumbo 6105 frets
Fender Custom Shop Twisted Tele single coil in bridge
3 way Eldred Esquire switching and Greasebucket tone control
Volume and Tone knobs
Tweed tolex case





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