Esquire Drop in Wiring Loom
-
Regular Price
-
£69.00
-
Sale Price
-
£69.00
-
Regular Price
-
Sold Out
-
Unit Price
- per
- Regular Price
- £69.00
- Sale Price
- £69.00
- Regular Price
- Unit Price
- per
Esquire Drop in Wiring Loom
‘It’s just a Tele with one pickup, right?’
It is easy to mistake the Esquire for a budget version of the Telecaster, this was what it was meant to be after all, just take your Tele, subtract the neck pickup, add some interesting wiring and a whole lot of hammer and nails simplicity and voila! The Esquire.
Less, but in some ways is a whole lot more.
To the uninitiated, it is understandable why you can get confused about a guitar one pickup and a pickup selector switch, but you need to adjust your perception and think of the switch as a way of selecting the way the bridge pickup views the world.
On an Esquire you have three choices as to how the pickup’s signal travels to the jack. One is straight through not seeing the volume or tone controls, two is with the tone and volume controls active and the third is the pickup run through a static tone cap to give it a darker sound. This is a much-maligned position, and most players steer clear from it, but it is not without its merits so give it a chance.
We make a traditional loom, just like it was made in the 50s, as well as a Montyfied version, in which we have changed the dark static tone cap for a sound akin to a fat cocked wah, we spent much time tuning this to our taste and think it’s the most usable variation of this concept available.
On a side note there is an inherent benefit to having one pickup in a guitar, the reduction of magnetic pull on the strings. This is a big part of what makes an Esquire different from a Tele, the subtle mojo of letting the guitar breathe a bit more. Sounds hokey, but it a thing!
The loom is made with CTS pots, a CRL switch, Gavitt cloth wire, a Monty’s Paper and oil cap and a switchcraft jack.