Ehhhh... Something's not right here...

Doctor J

Check this out. I'm a big fan of our Patron Saint, Chris, but this one has me miffed. Observe.

Karl Hungus

I don't get it.

david

The fact that its an mexican esquire?
Or the fact that he uses D'addario strings?

david

Or maybe because theres a pickup selector and only one pickup?

Ravelleman

My god, you're right! That does look like a perfectly normal Esquire to me too.

Voodu Child

Its missing three frets, and someones robbed the floyd...

david

I've got it, it's a '04/'05 model, but theres an extra number in the serial number.

http://www.fender.com/support/dating/mexican_dating.php

Karl Hungus

voodoo_child wrote:

Its missing three frets, and someones robbed the floyd...

Ah, that's what's wrong!

And where are the humbuckers?

HusseinSarhan

freakonaleashx wrote:

Or maybe because theres a pickup selector and only one pickup?

Tone switch.

Doctor J

Aye, the pickup selector/tone switch. Wasn't aware of this....

Our ’50s Esquire features an ash body, a C-shaped maple neck, a vintage-style three-saddle string-through-body Telecaster bridge, and a vintage-style single-coil Telecaster pickup with custom-wired three-way switching.

Basically, three-way switching on a single-pickup guitar gives you three preset tones. In the bridge position, the pickup is connected only to the volume control (the tone control is disconnected); this minimal circuitry produces more top-end sparkle than is possible with a Telecaster. In the middle position, the standard tone control circuit is activated. In the neck position, the tone control is again disengaged, but a tone-shaping capacitor rolls off much of the top end and some bottom, producing a darker tone and slight volume loss.

HusseinSarhan

more top-end sparkle .... hmmm ... you can read this as glass-breaking, ear-scraping screeching. Wel, maybe not. But, what's the deal with guitarists and way too much treble. When playing live I mean. :eek: Sometimes it's not loud... it's just treble! Which make it appear loud of course. You can feel the tinitus!:D

John

HusseinSarhan wrote:

more top-end sparkle .... hmmm ... you can read this as glass-breaking, ear-scraping screeching. Wel, maybe not. But, what's the deal with guitarists and way too much treble. When playing live I mean. :eek: Sometimes it's not loud... it's just treble! Which make it appear loud of course. You can feel the tinitus!:D

I've noticed this too. One gig I went to wasn't particularly loud but the treble out of the guitar was deafening.

moonboy

its the angular british rock fad thats going on at the minute.
bloc party artctic monkeys et al.

Rustar

That's the most beautiful Tele I've ever seen, with the covered bridge and missing pickup....and no wonder, it's not a Tele!
I'd buy one of those in a second....if I didn't have 62,000 other guitars to buy first!

fish-head

Treble cuts through. Gotta get the TWANG.

It's a very nice geetar indeed. A block of wood attached to a plank of wood with bits of electrics in it..

Johnny Storm

fish-head wrote:

It's a very nice geetar indeed. A block of wood attached to a plank of wood with bits of electrics in it..

Wait a minute!:eek:
Are you makin' some kind of emperor's new clothes type point here? Huh? :mad:
We don't need no grounding in reality around here, y'know.;)

fish-head

No I do genuinely love it!

John

fish-head wrote:

Treble cuts through. Gotta get the TWANG.

Yeah but there's a limit to how much treble is necessary. More than one guitarist recently has pissed me off with adding far too much treble to their sound. It goes beyond twang into painful screech territory.

fish-head

Spose that's true. Maybe they're very moderate sadists.