Fender Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire® Time Capsule Package

Fender Custom Shop Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire® Time Capsule

Before the Telecaster, before the Nocaster, there was the Esquire — the single-pickup, no-nonsense slab of wood and wire that launched Fender’s electric guitar legacy in 1950. The Fender Custom Shop Vintage Custom 1950 Pine Esquire Time Capsule is a breathtaking recreation of that very first instrument, built from the same sandwich-style pine body as the original and finished in Time Capsule Flash Coat Lacquer that puts you right back at the dawn of the electric guitar era. This isn’t just a guitar — it’s where everything started.

Key Features

• Body: 2-piece sandwich-style pine — the exact construction of the 1950 original, lightweight and wonderfully resonant
• Neck: 1-piece rift-sawn maple with authentic 1950 Esquire® “U” profile and maple fingerboard
• Fretboard: 1-piece rift-sawn maple, 7.25″–9.5″ vintage compound radius, 21 Jescar medium vintage frets
• Nut: Bone
• Pickup: Single Custom Shop hand-wound ’50–’51 Blackguard single-coil — the voice that started it all
• Switching: 3-way blade switch with Full Throttle Esquire® wiring for surprisingly versatile tonal options from a single pickup
• Controls: Master volume and tone
• Bridge: 3-saddle ’50s Esquire® bridge
• Hardware: Vintage-style Fender® logo tuning machines, bone nut, vintage-style disc string tree, 1-ply eggshell pickguard
• Finish: Time Capsule Flash Coat Lacquer
• Includes: Deluxe hardshell case, strap, and certificate of authenticity

Why Buy from Dietze Music

A guitar this historically significant is something you need to hold and play to truly understand, and we’d love for you to have that experience in Lincoln, Omaha, or Bellevue, NE. Stop by any of our locations or call us at (800) 357-1535 — our staff can walk you through the unique Full Throttle Esquire wiring and show you just how much tone lives in that single Blackguard pickup.

Ideal For

The serious collector or advanced player who wants to own the guitar that started the entire Fender story — and anyone who appreciates that sometimes one pickup, one great piece of pine, and one brilliant idea is all you need.