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1952 Fender Esquire
Scotty bought one of these in 1952 along with a Fender Deluxe amplifier after leaving the Navy and used it initially with the Starlite Wranglers. He really liked the neck on this but having always played full bodied guitars he didn't like the feel of the smaller solid body and soon switched to a Gibson ES-295 in 1953.
The 1952 Fender Esquire featured a solid ash body finished in butterscotch blond, 21 fret bolt-on maple neck, single coil bridge position pickup, volume and tone control and 3 way switch (position one - no tone control; position two - full tone control; position three - full bass, no tone control) . Essentially a single pickup version of the Fender Telecaster, the Esquire was originally introduced in 1950 and was Fender's first electric solid body guitar (the very early ones were offered in single and double pickup configurations). |
