frettedamericana | 2 decades ago

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This fifty-one-year-old Blond beauty with a solid ash body weighs just 7.20 lbs. Huge '57 style fretted maple V "boat-neck" with 21 original frets and black dot position markers. Neck dated in pencil "10-56". One single-coil pickup in the bridge position with an output of 5.78k. Potentiometers both dated May 1956. Esquire/Telecaster combined bridge/tailpiece with three smooth steel saddles. Original "ashtray" bridge cover. Overall, this fifty-two year-old gem is one of the nicest transitional "white guard" Esquires that we have ever seen! The Blond finish has mellowed to a rich, creamy color and the lovely grain of the ash body shows well through the finish. Housed in an eighties Fender black molded form-fit case (9.00).