Fender Custom Shop 2011 Roadshow Limited Edition Esquire Pro Electric Guitar Black

Includes: Hardshell Case, Strap, Cable, Custom Care Kit, Paperwork, Certificate of Authenticity

We look forward to the Fender Road Show every year; they fly in a few of their top guys from the Custom Shop Team (who we have a blast hanging out with and just can't say enough positive things about), and send us a Masterbuilder to talk guitar building and answers every question we throw at them. On top of that, they roll out a very special group of Limited Edition instruments built exclusively for this event.

This Road Show guitar is a Esquire Pro with a closet classic black finish. A really unique feature of this instrument is that the body is made of 100 year old pine, definitely not a common spec found on guitars. The neck has a Cabronita large "C" profile, and the guitar has the traditional Esquire single pickup layout, loaded with an Abby Ybarra handwound Twisted Tele in the bridge.

You might ask why the Esquire has a 3-way pickup switch when the guitar only has a single pickup. In the bridge position, the pickup is routed through the volume only, no tone control. In the middle position the pickup is routed through both the volume and tone controls, and in the neck, the pickup goes through a fixed treble-reducing capacitor which gives the guitar a darker, more bass heavy tone. The closet classic finish dulls down the black color a bit with some surface swirling instead of the usual gloss you would find on a new guitar.

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