Many guitarists often forget that the Esquire came before the Telecaster and that a two-pickup version of the Esquire, which ...

Those efforts led up to the 1950 birth of the Esquire model and, in time, a two-pickup version that, after a trademark snafu, was christened the Telecaster, to lean into the new popularity of ...

In 1950, Fender released his first guitar, the Esquire, and the following year rolled out his famous design for the Telecaster. But it was the next design, released in 1954, that would establish ...