Loved by Billy Gibbons, Steve Cropper and Jeff Beck, the Fender Esquire is one of those guitars that have stood the test of ...
1938: Fender opens his first shop, named Fender’s Repair Service ... solid-body electric guitar. It is named the Esquire, and about 50 are made. It is renamed the Broadcaster and renamed ...
Credit: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for BBR/BMG It’s pretty damn cool that the very first commercially produced solidbody electric guitar, the Fender Esquire, can still kick serious butt today ...