1957 Fender Esquire Blonde

My favorite Fender is the under appreciated Esquire. I love Esquires. It’s not simply a one pickup Telecaster. It does something even a Tele can’t do-It sends its one pickup directly to the output, bypassing the tone control. Makes a difference. It also tends to sustain better than a Tele. This is because it has only one pickup. The magnet in a pickup affects the vibration of the strings. One pickup has half the magnetic pull of a two pickup guitar so the strings are able to vibrate more freely in a single pickup guitar. Jeff Beck knew it early on. This is a 57. It has the very desirable soft V neck profile. Want the hard V? Check out the 56 I have listed. There is very little player wear on this example. The body shows fine checking everywhere but not much wear. It has the usual array of dings and edge wear mostly from the case. Frets are original and in excellent shape. The guitar is 100% original with no issues of any kind. A little fingerboard wear, a few dings but a solid collector grade Esquire with a killer neck and killer tone. Light weight, too ( 6 lbs 15 ounces). Nice clean tweed "knuckle buster" case