Fender Custom Shop '52 Esquire Journeyman Relic Electric Guitar, Chocolate 3-Color Sunburst

Straight from that mythical West Coast workshop, we've got this Fender Custom Shop '52 Esquire in a decadent Chocolate 3-Color Sunburst. Just about the most sweetly chocolate thing you could get out of a factory outside of Willy Wonka's, this Fender Custom Shop single-pickup Esquire stacks up with vintage-inspired features, rugged aesthetics, and stylish appointments. Set to impress players chasing the simplicity of single-pickup Fenders or just anyone with a sweet tooth, this Custom Shop Esquire is a dream.

This Fender Custom Shop '52 Esquire begins with a classic, vintage-minded feature: an ash body. Ash, something of a sister wood to Fender's classic alder, establishes itself in a two-piece build sorted for weight. This particular cut of ash, chosen for its weight, weighs in at a particularly modest weight just over seven pounds. Doubling as a resonant base off which the rest of this Fender Custom Shop's sonic profile can spring and as a canvas for a tastefully aged Fender Custom Shop Journeyman Relic lacquer finish, this body is exceptional in so many ways. This Esquire's body is bound with parchment binding on its top and bottom for an additional geometric accent along its curvature.

From here, this Fender Custom Shop welcomes a plain grain maple neck in a Nocaster "U" profile. Playing with a prominent, rounded, "baseball bat" "U" feel, this neck measures from .950" thick at the first fret to a full inch at the twelfth. This neck fills the hand with a particularly vintage feel for all you 1950s fans. Filling out to the fingerboard, this Esquire's board is lined with twenty-one frets utilizing 6150 Medium Jumbo wire. Balancing spaciousness and precision, these frets offer a comfortable fretting experience while the board's more modern 9.5" radius and Micarta Black facedot inlays compound on an already interesting playing experience. Additional finish wear found along the fingerboard ages its look and feel tastefully.

For its voice, this '52 Esquire drops in with a hand-wound '51 Nocaster Bridge single-coil pickup. Made for players after the kind of raw '50s heat that made the earliest Fenders fan favorites, this lone single-coil serves as a powerful sonic engine. This blissfully simple single-coil's sounds are backed up by a number of reliable hardware features including a bone nut, Vintage-Style tuning machines, and a 1950 Esquire bridge. Across this model, the Fender Custom Shop's Relic hardware finish is found to inch its overall aesthetic into one with some classy artificial age. This '52 Esquire travels with an included Fender Custom Shop Strat/Tele Tweed hardshell case.

With this Fender Custom Shop Esquire, you really get something so sweet it's enough to make anyone a chocoholic.