Loved by Billy Gibbons, Steve Cropper and Jeff Beck, the Fender Esquire is one of those guitars that have stood the test of ...

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: The Fender Esquire represents a historic turning point in guitar evolution. Essentially a single pickup variant of the Telecaster (although some very rare, early dual-pickup ...

It’s been a minute since I’ve done a guitar review, and Fender was nice enough to send one of their new models for 2021. Unfortunately, this one fell through the cracks, and I’m a little ...

The history of Fender’s '70s flagship Tele - a melting pot of influences... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: ...

The Fender Custom Shop was started in 1987 ... but it's his early years that Stevens has drawn on for the Esquire. The Telecaster-shaped guitar in white blonde with gold hardware, including ...

Soon after, Fender expanded on the Esquire’s concepts with the Telecaster. The Telecaster was the first commercially successful, mass-produced, solid-body electric guitar. It featured a truss ...

The Telecaster was Leo Fender's first proper solidbody guitar, revolutionizing jazz, country, and blues and kicking off rock 'n roll; it was preceded by a more basic design, the Esquire.

Following in the creative footsteps of the Old Growth Strat, the Front Row Legend Esquire and the 80 Proof Blues Junior, Fender has now ... The El Mocambo Telecaster is the work of Custom Shop ...

the Fender Esquire, can still kick serious butt today; you can’t say that about too many 75-year-olds. Many guitarists often forget that the Esquire came before the Telecaster and that a two ...