Fender Esquire Classic 50's Telecaster 2009

We love offering guitars that are both scarce and in demand and to that end...here we have the stuff of legend! The classic 50's is a premium Mexican series which made a run of the original Esquire models, finished in trans blonde and of course, with a 50's maple neck.
That said, it does not have the old school 50's fat profile, more a modern Tele standard easy neck.
Now a question often asked is why does it have a 3 way pickup selector, and only 1 pickup..well here's why - 

The 3-way selector functions as a tone mod router with all three positions selecting the bridge pickup but it is where the output of the bridge pickup is channeled that differs…

• In the back position, the pickup is routed directly to the volume pot. This bypasses the 250K resistance of the tone pot, for a brighter sound than the Telecaster circuit would produce at its max brightness.
• In the middle position, the pickup is routed through the volume and tone pot, so you get what a regular Telecaster provides in the back position. The only difference with an Esquire here is that it doesn't have a treble bleed capacitor to preserve the highs when you reduce the volume.
• In the front position, there’s a heavy filtering arrangement, achieved through a 3.3K resistor and two 0.05 microfarad capacitors. The result is a rounded comp tone that could perhaps be considered to have jazz organ characteristics if you took away the transients and decay.

I have to say this really is a lovely guitar, in great shape, only having seen home use, making it a dream come true for some lucky player out there!