Fender Custom Shop '59 Esquire, Journeyman Relic, Dirty White Blonde

Fender Custom Shop '59 Esquire, Journeyman Relic, Dirty White Blonde Overview

Fender Custom Shop '59 Esquire Journeyman Relic Dirty White Blonde, Two-Pickup, Overview by GAK

The Classic Esquire recipe with a twist, 2-pickups, Ash Body, Maple Neck, Brass Saddles but with modern features like a Large "C" Neck Shape, flattened 9.5" Radius, Medium Jumbo Frets, Modern Tele wiring, Hand-wound Tele pickups and Compensated Brass Saddles. You won't find too many dual pickup Esquires out the either. The Journeyman Relic even looks like it's been taken care of for 60 years too.

It's a great recording guitar with extremely versatile tones, imagine tracking the rhythm on the back pickup with the tone rolled back a little, then knocking the selector forward to the overwound Red-Hot pickup in the Neck and adding some fattened up lead/melody lines. Better still, is both of them sitting perfectly in the mix together and sounding distinctly different.

It's also a great live guitar, the large "C" neck won't tire your hand like a Nocaster neck might, and again the defined difference from bridge to neck makes single note and soloing tone available at the flick of a switch on your guitar, moving back a notch for chord-work and rhythm. It's a one-guitar-solves-all workhorse that will keep giving and get better every time it's played. 10 years down the line this guitar is gonna really sing...

A Fender Custom Shop instrument is as good as it gets. You know it when you play one—it’s filled with intangible, electrifying elements that adds a new dimension to your playing experience. It’s as if the instrument itself is imbued with history, and is as close as it gets to an original build Fender from the Golden Era.

The Custom Shop builders are completely dedicated to their art, they’re the best at what they do, and they pour all of their passion, hard-earned knowledge and skill into every instrument they build. It’s no ordinary place, and the creations that come from it are no ordinary instruments. Whether they're Teambuilt or Masterbuilt.