NEAR MINT 1953 Fender Esquire w/ Ariel Posen!

Today we have the cleanest Esquire we've ever seen, straight out of 1953 and it is such a pleasure to have in the shop! Of course this is one that we had to put in the hands of Ariel Posen while we had him in the shop, through a trusty Vibrolux Reverb. One pickup is all you need, right?
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[@col7484]

Beautiful playing

[@Darrick-f9d]

So cool, everything about these vintage guitars just have a character that's pretty unbelievable and in person they are ten times that. American made playable art.

[@neanderthalsnavel7411]

Looks and sounds awesome. Bravo to the guitarist!

[@Cheguebuddha]

Ariel Posen da man! Nice! Love the latest album!

[@GITNigth]

Ariel Posen... que grande, que nivel señores... uno de los grandes... maravilloso...

[@TroubadourJuggernaut]

Outstanding guitar and outstanding playing !!

[@1minutecomicswalahollywood648]

Hello,
I am a new subscriber. ❤

[@endlesspresident]

Stunning playing, this hit the spot for my new found appreciation of country and pedal steel. Love all the application of techniques seamlessly interwoven with feel.

[@davidkoral1673]

Sold already! Incredible guitar!

[@caseysniper308]

that is the sound you expect from that guitar. i love my tele's but i can't afford this one. nice to see wish i could play it.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

What are they asking?

[@ElcanaldeReyesManuel]

Una preciosidad de guitarra 🎸

[@JohnDoe-xr5is]

Do you have the ability to hold it....without shaking it around?

[@mass_of_rest]

wow, gorgeous!!!
been a while we haven’t seen Aaron…. any chance to have him back? 😊

[@Matthewtaylorn]

I don't know how he can just jump between styles so frequently. He might play some country phrase, and jump straight to something that sounds kinda bepop jazz-ish, followed immediately by something folky. It's wild and cool. It's hipster fusion.

[@TheBoomtown4]

Pretty cool you got Ariel Posen to demo it! The nut slots look like they were cut with a chainsaw, was it strung left at one point or something? And is it me or do the frets look low and sloped off on the ends? 4:04

[@chrisshaw6451]

Man, Ariel could make a tree stump sound good if you put strings on it. 👍❤️

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

He did but it was wood from 3 stumps, Ash, maple and that skunk stripe wood on the back o the neck. "Banging the planke" from theatre-land lingo for playing a Guitar and dancing on a stage.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

Just do the right thing and give it to Mr Posen, he is one of the few who can actually make the Esquire sing like a pedal steel. BTW, if you are a "Badass" as am I you will never part with yours, the Vol is best at about 5 for those pickups for that beautful tone. Join the "Bad-ass" Guitar players club,.sorry chaps I fell in love with this 1 pickup guitar after seeing Steve Marriot use one in telly in the early 80s and it must have done a voodoo on me.

[@Telecastersanonymous]

Pete Anderson said when Billy gibbons saw him playing his Esquire Billy said “hey man you’re playing with one pickup, that’s pretty ballsy”
Pete responded “if I was really ballsy, I would take this volume and tone control off the guitar” just give me a volume pedal and plug me in

[@19PaulBrewer58]

Esquire was made before the Broadcaster and then it was called a Telecaster!

[@TheArtofBlues]

So good to hear him play a real guitar finally. ;)

[@romusromulus]

oh man Ariel ripped.

[@pedalhead2641]

In one of these videos I would love to see the player stop and say, “Sorry TH-camrs. I’m keeping this one.”

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

Agree, that geezer should have it gifted to him. A gesture like that would spot-light them as champions of the World of Music .

[@svbarr]

You don't need the neck pickup and many early 50's neck pickups were bassy and boring. And no I'm not talking about the dull circuit -- the pickups themselves could be underwound and blah....spacing of the dots on the 12th fret seem wider than most guitars of that time frame...

[@stratmagic6893]

Guitars are meant to be played. I hope the next owner doesn't stick this in a case and puts it under the bed.

[@giulioluzzardi7632]

Before that happens they will perform a forensic examination and X-ray and then it will dissapear unless they gave it to a player like Mr Posen.

[@BryanClark-gk6ie]

My 51 broadcaster and 72 d-35 martin was destroyed in1976' been hurting for another fender from that era' it will be played and then passed on to my granddaughter.

[@TwangThang57]

He won’t put it under the bed, more likely in a vault.

[@cominginsecond]

Would have been nice to have gotten at least some pick playing in this demo. Most people don't just sit there and plunk away on an electric with their fingers.

[@djizzah]

missing a pick up, cheap telecaster