The '50s Esquire features an ash body, maple neck, vintage Telecaster pickup and bridge with steel saddles, and volume and tone controls with a three-way "quick tone change" switch.
Model name: '50s Esquire
Series: Classic Series
Body: ash
Neck: 1-piece maple, C-shape, gloss polyurethane finish
Fingerboard: maple, 7.25 in. radius (184 mm)
No. of frets: 21 vintage-style frets
Pickups: 1 vintage-style single-coil Tele pickup with Alnico magnets (bridge)
Controls: master volume, master tone
Pickup switching, custom-wired 3-position blade:
-- Position 1. volume control, (Dark Vintage Circuit), no tone control
-- Position 2. volume control with cap. and tone control with cap.
-- Position 3. volume control only no cap. , no tone control
Bridge: vintage-style 3-saddle strings-thru-body Tele bridge
Machine heads: Fender/Ping vintage-style tuning machines
Hardware: chrome
Pickguard: 1-ply white
Scale length: 25.5 in. (648 mm)
Width at nut: 1.625 in. (41.2 mm)
Unique features: C-shape maple neck, knurled chrome knobs
Strings: Fender Super 250R, Nickel Plated Steel (.010, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046)
Accessories: Deluxe Gig Bag
Introduced: 1/2005