Fender Releases Brad Paisley Road Worn Esquire
Paisley's latest signature Fender features a paulownia core with a spruce top and back, and his new signature Seymour Duncan “Secret Agent” Esquire neck pickup.
Fender has teamed up with country superstar Brad Paisley to create the Fender Brad Paisley Road Worn Esquire guitar.
Paisley's latest signature Fender features a paulownia core with a spruce top and back, a Road Worn finish with a Black Sparkle lacquer, and a custom Enhanced “V”-shaped maple neck with a 9.5” radius fingerboard.
The guitar is outfitted with two pickups: a custom-wound '64 Tele bridge pickup and, notably, Paisley's new Seymour Duncan signature “Secret Agent” Esquire neck pickup. Mounted underneath the guitar's black-and-silver paisley pickguard, it offers the tonal options of a traditional Tele, while maintaining both the Esquire's trademark bridge pickup sustain and classic looks.
The guitar is also outfitted with a three-saddle string-through Tele bridge with compensated brass barrel saddles.
“The Esquire is a streamlined, working-man’s guitar,” Paisley said. “It’s really important to me that you hear an echo of the past in the stuff that I do, and in that sense, this guitar encompasses what I try to do musically. It has a retro feel, but at the same time, it’s progressive, with a new style of pickup that hasn’t been done before.”
The Fender Brad Paisley Road Worn Esquire is available now for $1,399.99.
For more info on the guitar, stop by fender.com.
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