Squire Esquire Deluxe Unboxing & Review

Hey there Guitaroholics! It is time for another unboxing. I know what you’re thinking, “How many guitars do you need???” One more. The answer is always one more.

If you watched my last video, the rig rundown with Tyler, you may have heard me say I love cheap guitars. Followed shortly thereafter by I love expensive guitars. Hi, my name is Wes and I’m a Guitaroholic.

This subject of today’s video falls in the more affordable category. It isn’t a $100 Amazon special, but it’s a far cry from the price of a new Les Paul.

Squire has been doing the Paranormal series, and things of the same ilk, for a while now. I love that they are coming out with some outside the box guitars, where the bigger names stick with the models they released in the 50’s and 60’s. Speaking of “outside the box” let’s get this bad boy outside his box!

This is the Squire Esquire Deluxe in the mocha finish. It also comes in black, but I love seeing the wood grain. The Esquire was one of the first guitars Leo Fender made. I believe it was originally called the Broadcaster, but Guild or someone already had something with that name. The single pickup and bolt on neck made it more affordable than the competition and helped guitarist be heard over the brass in big bands. But you’ll probably recognize the body shape from the better known Telecaster.

This is in the Paranormal realm because Squire took the idea of the Esquire and blended it with its 70’s era descendent the Telecaster Deluxe. The big pick guard is a dead giveaway.

This features a Fender designed full range humbucker, rather than the single coil of the original. The rotary switche splits to single coil tones, full humbucker, and a bypass volume and tone.

[adriantomo]

the grain on the fingerboard is beautiful. adore your modesty man! subbed!

[stingraydelgadillo]

Great video as always brother. Thats a sweet sounding guitar. It was nice seeing Luna running around in the background. Max says Rock On!!

[zeroboyrick]

Mine had protective plastic over the pickup cover just like on the pickguard. Wonder if it has any effect on performance. It's a fantastic guitar with no qualifier "for the price".

[davebarone]

Very nice video, now check through the boxes for the candy

[Renav]

Nice video! I wanted to know how different you think the tone of this guitar is compared to the bridge pickup of a Les Paul

[tonyphillips]

Gretch had Broadkaster Drums which was the issue. Thanks for the video!

[Gaslight.Guitar]

cool guitar idea. single hum guitars are rare. ;)

[WesGuitaroholics]

Right??? I have modified a couple to be single pickups, and I spec’d the turtle shell guitar with a single Seymour Duncan, but you don’t see many like that out of the box. I like that there is less magnetic pull on the strings and lets face it, it just looks cool! Thanks for watching and commenting! Rock On!!!🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

[TheTwangKings]

A real rock machine. No need for a neck pickup. Something Keith Richards would enjoy playing, I am sure.

[ragnadrabinowitz]

sweet! fender was blowing out stock and i ordered a blue sparkle edition.