1969 Fender® Esquire

 

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  • Year: 1969
  • Manufacturer: Fender®
  • Model: Esquire
  • Case: Hard
  • Color: blonde
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: Fender® Esquire Model Solid Body Electric Guitar (1969), made in Fullerton, California, serial # 253933, blonde finish, ash body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, black tolex original hard shell case. This is a fairly rare example of a very late Esquire, built shortly before the model's discontinuation in early 1970. The single -pickup Esquire had lagged in sales behind the slightly more expensive Telecaster® for years, and CBS finally pulled the plug on the long-lived model. This guitar's neck, dated MAY 69, is the unusual combination of a 'skunk stripe' maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard peculiar to this specific era, when Fender® revived the original style one-piece maple neck. The logo is the rarely seen "big letter" ESQUIRE decal used only around 1969-70. Finish and fittings are all original and although this guitar has had some alteration in the past, it is back to original and a great playing and sounding Esquire.Overall length is 39 in. (99.1 cm.), 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.) deep. Scale length is 25 1/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.). All original with the exception of a typical 'humbucker size' rout under the pickguard. The pickguard itself appears to be the proper period Fender® original so perhaps the perpatrator was prescient enough to use an alternate guard! Finish is excellent with very minor play wear and this is a very attractive and great-sounding guitar. Excellent Condition.