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Post subject: Classic 50s Esquire with Tele Body Rout
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:39 pm
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This week I purchased a Classic 50s Esquire from Sweetwater. Upon removing the pickguard this is a standard MIM tele body. I guess this leaves some future options with this guitar, but I also feel that this is somewhat of a disservice to the customer in that it's not an Esquire body. It' a tele routed body. What do you guys think? Other than that it's a beautiful little guitar.


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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:00 am
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You mean that the body is routed for a single-coil neck pickup right? This is completely normal, and that's how every Esquire from the 50's and 60's came from factory.

Standard Telecasters MIM bodies have a humbucker neck route.


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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:40 pm
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lago, what I meant was the original Esquire body type, because the tele wasn't invented yet.


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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:51 pm
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The first Esquires didn't have truss rods either. Are you going to be a stickler for authenticity there too? :shock:

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lago, what I meant was the original Esquire body type, because the tele wasn't invented yet.


Actually, the Tele was invented before the esquire. The tele was the first mass-producable solid-body electric guitar. I'm pretty sure the Esquire came soon after.


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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:15 pm
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You guys are right on both counts,1st came the Broadcaster,then the "Nocaster"then the Telecaster then the Esquire.As far as I know there was never a body specifically made for the Esquire at least in the 50s and 60s.

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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:02 pm
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Iago wrote:
You mean that the body is routed for a single-coil neck pickup right? This is completely normal, and that's how every Esquire from the 50's and 60's came from factory.

Standard Telecasters MIM bodies have a humbucker neck route.


Correct on all counts.

And the order in which the model names appeared was Esquire, Broadcaster, Nocaster, and then Telecaster.

I highly recommend the book "The Fender Telecaster" by A.R. Duchossoir. It's full of great information and lots of details and photographs.


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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:01 am
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Hi George,I was basing my info on Tony Bacon's The Ultimate Guitar Book where he states that the Esquire was first introduced in 51 and according to Vintage Guitar magazine the Broadcaster came first in 50 Obviously one of us has the wrong sources.

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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:04 am
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Duchossoir says the first was the single-pickup Esquire in '50. Some two-pickup Esquires were built also. Then the name was changed to Broadcaster. Of course these decals were later clipped in '51 and collectors called those guitars Nocasters. Then the name was changed to Telecaster as the two-pickup model and Esquire as the one-pickup model.

Esquires and Telecasters both used the same bodies, as the original poster questioned, but the Telecaster of course had a neck pickup. The Esquire remained available until 1969.

That's just what my book says. I certainly wasn't working at Fender in 1950 so I don't know. :D

Either way, I think the original poster got his question answered.


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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:35 am
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I guess that means that somewhere between the jigs and reels that Duchossoir,Bacon or V.G. Mag. sourced inaccurate info somewhere.It's got me puzzled more than ever because they're all respected authorities.

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George wrote:
Duchossoir says the first was the single-pickup Esquire in '50. Some two-pickup Esquires were built also. Then the name was changed to Broadcaster. Of course these decals were later clipped in '51 and collectors called those guitars Nocasters. Then the name was changed to Telecaster as the two-pickup model and Esquire as the one-pickup model.


That´s from where my info comes from too..

The first Fender was the Esquire, (1 pickup), then right after someone suggested Leo to put another pickup there and those were known as "Dual-Pickup Esquires" (very little later renamed to "Broadcaster"). In the meanwhile, the 1-PU Esquire production was stopped, and returned a little later (1951 or 1952 I guess). I´ve seen a picture of a 1950 Fender brochure stating "Esquire -69,00US$", "Dual-Pickup" for something about 99,00US$" or a little more.

My guess is that only those really very early black no-trussrod Esquires (possibly just a couple prototypes) had no neck pickup route, and it's possible they don't even exist anymore.


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Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:55 am
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I'm not sure what you expected. Fender put "Esquire" look alike cosmetic parts on existing Tele wood stock and called it an Esquire. They certainly aren't going to retool to make one model. And seriously, even if Fender replicated the Esquire specs exactly, the end result would NOT be an Esquire. The best it could ever be is a great copy.

As long as it's a nice guitar . . .

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Hi guys, i'm chiming in here to say that i for one really appreciate how all of you are so willing to share the wealth when questions like this one arise. The knowledge that can be found here provided by those of you who really know your stuff as they say is truly amazing, and it really is great to get such a educational look at some of The fender guitars history. Thanks so very much guys! :D

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Post subject: pickup rout on Esquire
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:31 pm
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Do all the MIM Esquires have routing for a humbucker in the neck position rather than a single coil?


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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:45 pm
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No. MIM '50s Classic Esquires use the same body as the MIM '50s Classic Telecasters. The bodies are routed for a single-coil in the neck.

However, MIM Standard Telecasters are routed for a humbucker in the neck.


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