Description
Our Take:
In celebration of the 70th birthday of their first-ever solid-body guitar, Fender has released a 70th Anniversary Esquire, paying homage to the legacy of a revolutionary instrument. This 70th Anniversary Esquire is a modern reproduction of a timeless guitar, with features that breathe new life into the Esquire design while retaining all of the mojo that the originals had. The Esquire employs a lightweight, punchy pine body with Fender’s proprietary roasting treatment, a hot Tim Shaw-designed Esquire bridge pickup that delivers all the spank you could want, a lacquer finish, and a thick “U”-shaped neck – plus a special anniversary neck plate and tweed case. Is anyone else drooling a little?
Fender’s Take:
The very first solid-body electric guitar offered by Fender in 1950 was the Esquire. With an elegant single-cutaway silhouette, adjustable 3-saddle bridge and a lone, repurposed lap-steel pickup in the bridge position – the Esquire laid the groundwork for all solidbody electric guitars to follow and foreshadowed its more famous sibling, the Telecaster.
Like the earliest Esquire models, the 70th Anniversary Esquire features a pine body – a lightweight wood known for punchy and complex tone – and upgrades it with our roasting treatment, greatly improving the resonance of the body. Other features include a lacquer finish, thick “U”-shaped neck, Tim Shaw-designed Esquire bridge pickup – inspired by an original ’50 Esquire from Songbirds Museum in Chattanooga, TN – special anniversary neck plate and tweed case.
Production of the 70th Anniversary Esquire will be limited to 2020 only.
Standard Specifications
General Info
| Brand: | Fender |
| Model: | 70th Anniversary Esquire®, Maple Fingerboard |
| Color: | Seafoam Green |
| Serial: | Call |
| Weight: | Call |
| Condition: | New |
Body
| Top Material: | Roasted Pine | |
| Back and Sides Material: |
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| Finish: | Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
Neck
| Material: | Maple |
| Finish: | Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer |
| Fingerboard Material/Radius: | Maple, 7.25″ (184.1 mm) |
| Frets (Number and Size): | 21, Vintage Tall |
| Inlays: | Black Dot |
| Nut (Material and Width): | Bone, 1.650″ (42 mm) |
| Scale Length: | 25.5″ (648 mm) |
| Profile: |
’50 Broadcaster® “U” |
Electronics
| Pickups: | Tim Shaw Designed Esquire Bridge Pickup |
| Pickup Switching: | 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge (Tone control off), Position 2. Bridge (Tone control on), Position 3. Bridge (Tone control off, preset treble roll-off) |
| Controls: | Volume, Tone |
Hardware
| Tuning Machines: | Vintage-Style |
| Bridge: | 3-Saddle American Vintage Strings-Through-Body Tele® with Solid Barrel Steel Saddles |
| Pickguard: | 1-Ply White |
| Control Knobs: | Knurled Dome |
| Hardware Finish: | Nickel/Chrome |
Accessories
Deluxe Hardshell Case
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