Nash Guitars Jeff Beck Esquire Relic

This is really a nice guitar. I waited nearly a year for it and it was worth it. I think Bill Nash is relic'ing, building, wiring and setting up all of these by himself, because I've got #28 of 75. The work he's putting into these is evident. The relic job is fantastic. the guitar is really beat up and looks like it been played and gigged forever.

One pickup, a stacked Duncan with a coil splitter. Three position switch, with push-pull volume and tone control. Here's some of the genius in this guitar: Center position is normal operation with tone pot and volume pot engaged. Pull the volume, you get a hot humbucker.

If you switch to Neck position, the volume is wide open and tone is nasal. With a fuzz face, this is a mean tone. If you switch to bridge, volume is wide open and tone is bright. Real spanky and good for spanky leads and ringing chords. This wiring is what makes the guitar versatile and a tone machine.

The neck is fat D profile, med jumbo frets (I THINK). It feels really good and I have small hands.

Set up and intonation from Nash are A-OK. It comes with 10s.

Played through a 50watt 1976 JMP Marshall. I use it with Fulltone boxes: OCD overdrive and 70 pedal.

The electronics take some getting used to, and I also had to learn to live with one pickup, after playing Les Pauls and Strats. An Esquire model challenges your ear and creativity for tone.

It sounds really good. I wasn't into Duncans until I heard this. It's nice.

It looks like a truck ran over it, but it came set up nicely.

Solid and well constructed. You can tell Bill Nash put alot of care into it.

I emailed him a thank you and he got back within a week. He's a busy guy, but he gave me a little extra info on the guitar.

I've been playing 20 years and own about 10 guitars, including a Fender Custom shop relic stratocaster. This guitar is just as good as a Fender custom shop relic on almost every level, except patina, but then we're splitting hairs. Cosmetics are definitely cool, but not everything. It's the sound of the instrument and how it feels, and if you can express yourself on it.

I resent that some folks call Nash guitars "partscasters", as if to imply they're no good. If anything, they hold their value better than Fenders. I played telecasters and esquires and this one felt really good. Besides, I wouldn't have ever shelled out 10K for a fender custom shop anything, especially the Fender Jeff Beck Esquire.

If it we're stolen, I'd cry. Since it's a limited edition, it'd be hard to replace.

If you have a Nash dealer nearby that has one, go try it out. If you're playing on it for an hour or more, buy it :)

this is a dead on copy of beck's yardbirds esquire...its incredibly realistic...it makes the gillion dollar fender custom shop beck model look like a bad joke...he says he's making 75 of these and my serial number is in the 20's...its hard for me to say if they all will be as great as mine, but you really wouldnt believe how good mine is...it has the cutaway contour like beck,s, and it has the beat to death relic finish that looks like becks original...i know beck painted his once but it soon faded back to butterscotch....the fender model seems to be an awful white finish...nash even reproduced the beat-up and chipped bakelite scratchplate accurately.,..the neck feels stupendous, it is big and beefy for sure but easy to play...i had a fender nocaster custom shop model and you know how big those necks are..!!i found them to be just too dAMN big......this one is similar but it has a slightly thinner feel at the nut and it isnt as hard to play bar chords on up high...its like he took a nocaster relic neck and really improved it...the nash comes with nice size frets and is a vintage radius....amd the guitar isnt heavy either.,.,..the pickup setup is incredible..it just has the one pickup, but it gets like 9 different sounds...all incredible.,..with the switch in the middle position , you get the standard esquire sound, with both the volume and tone knobs doing their thing very well..it sounds like the best 50's tele you ever heard..BUT THEN...when you flip the switch to the bridge position, the bridge position bypasses the tone and volume pot and goes straight out the output jack, for a spine tingling increase in volume and scorching fat brightness..no booster pedal needed here..!!..just set your sound in the middle position, and when its time to solo, just flip the switch and no need for a pedal....it will overdrive any amp to glory....it honks..!!..when you flip the switch to the neck position, it does the same thing except it goes thru some esquire type TONE capacitor and gives you a big loud fat neck pickup sound..i think that setting would be awsome for slide guitar sound...all this from from the one amazing duncan pickup...there is also a push pull pot which does the whole thing over, but in humbucking mode....both modes sound amazing.....when i first got mine, i thought the wiring was broken, as i did not understand the setup, but i soon sussed it out ande was then very impressed...the guitar resonates like the devil....this is not some slap together amateur relic job...this guy planned this guitar out..he made it work....it is hard to explaIN but i tell you, he did something to make this guitar speciaL....AND IT IS..

this guitsr has enough sounds to cover any style....blues...country...rock...jazz....if you can play , this guitar can deliver...i play it thru a tweed bassman and it sounds unreal......it also sounds killer at very low volumes around the house late at night...hell, it sounds great even unplugged...

i never played any 50;s fender that was put togehter this well..i've had several of them....this guitar is better...thats all i can say...

i would rate this guitar to be of the highest quality and reliability..,

i used to think NASH guitars were over-rated....till i got one....but now i believe..,.i have seen photos of some that i didnt think looked that realsitic but he threw out all the stops when making this model...wow...!..i understand that he answers emails..i dont have any plans to ask him anything....i prefer to keep him godlike and mysterious..

i have been playing since 1965...my first guitar was an esquire,,,it was beat up when i got it...it looked a lot like this nash esquire and i fondly recall everything about it...but it wasnt near as good of a player as this nash model.,..you cant go back in time, but with this nash guitar there's no need to...time comes to you....thats damned poetic, isnt it..?