Fender Esquire 1953 model (single-pickup Esquire look like a two-pickup
Fender Telecaster), The neck, wears the “butterfly” string guide for the B and E strings positioned roughly in line with the A-string tuner post, which replaced the round guide that was more distant from the nut in mid-’56, along with the logo decal at the far side of this guide, a change made at the same time. the neck has the soft-V profile that came back into fashion at Fender in late ’55 and remained largely through ’57 (early ’50-’51 necks were also V’ but were thicker overall). All of this points at a neck made later than ’53 or ’54.
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