A Maple-Cap Esquire - The First We've Ever Seen!

This lightweight blond beauty weighs just 6.50 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Solid ash body and super rare maple-cap neck with a wonderful medium-to-fat profile. Maple-cap fretboard  with 21 original medium-thin frets and black dot position markers. Single "butterfly" string tree. CBS 'Black' headstock decal with "Fender Esquire" and two patent numbers "2,573,254  3,143,028" in black below it. Individual Fender "F" Tuners with octagonal metal buttons. Four-bolt neck plate with serial number "252319" between the top two screws.One single-coil pickup, angled in bridgeplate, with an output of 6.06k. Three-ply (white/black/mother-of-toilet-seat) plastic pickguard with eight screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way "tone" switch with "top-hat" tip, all on metal plate adjoining pickguard. Chrome knobs with flat tops and knurled sides. Telecaster/Esquire combined bridge/tailpiece with three steel saddles. Complete with its original "ashtray" bridge cover. The neck is stamped "3OCT68A", and the pots are dated "137 6642" (CTS, October 1966). Apart from a few small surface marks on the edges, and some finish checking, this remarkable example of a very rare maple-cap Esquire is in totally original and exceptionally fine (9.00) condition. Complete with it's original 'Ashtray' bridge cover, original Fender 12 page hang-tag Instruction manual, guitar cord, guitar strap and an old set of Fender strings. Housed in its original Fender black hardshell case with orange plush lining (9.25).

This is the first 'maple-cap' Esquire that we have ever seen!