That neck is really surprising, nice 
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Thank you. Yes, and the headstock is like that as wall. I may clearcoat it with gloss, just to bring out the “tiger stripes”.
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Thats a real beauty @Al1885
It would be a hard decision but I think I would probably have to go with the Chapman
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I like this Esquire 
lovely color
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Me too! But is that the normal headstock?
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Very interesting.
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at the time, Fender decided to enlarge the headstock so that the brand name would be written bigger and would be easier to read, especially on the TV
in the case of this Esquire, this seems to be a Telecaster Deluxe neck, which was in fact a Stratocaster neck on a Telecaster body with a Gibson-like electronic :
a “normal” Esquire is a Telecaster without the neck pickup (normal Telecaster headstock and normal Telecaster bridge pickup) :
… but now we say “Esquire” to speak about any single-pickup Tele
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Neat. I didn’t know about the history, thanks!
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see the first prototype, before the Telecaster was produced and sold (under the name “Broadcaster” before it was changed for “Telecaster”) :
and the second prototype :
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That second prototype has seen some use 
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@howard if you’re interested, Keith Williams channel five watt world has numerous ‘history of’ shorts. It covers all the stuff @terb mentioned. It’s an informative channel.
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Cool, thanks!
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Mini GAS.
So the Behringer X-touch is just tons and tons of fun and coolness, however, the majority of the buttons on the right have labels that are generic and meaningless in most
DAWs. Each DAW uses them for different things. I watched an hour long video of a guy going through them all and taking notes. I was going to make a bunch of tiny labels like he did but figured I’d Google first, and sure enough, someone makes a template for each DAW brand…problem solved.
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Templates rock. Pretty nice one too
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Magnetic, stays put.
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