Wish you had a '52 Esquire but can't afford it? This guitar is made from an unrestorable, early fifties, Champion/Student lap steel. These lap steels had basically the same parts as an Esquire but in a different format, same swamp ash used for the bodies, same pickups (sans base plate), same pots and caps. I attached a 9.5 radius, medium C, 25.5 inch scale, rock maple neck. The guitar uses all the original parts except for new pots, tuners, knobs, and brass slant compensated bridge saddles. The body can be used in the small format or with the swamp ash ring that makes it more the size of a regular guitar. You also get the Pheo pledge, "no part of this guitar has been sanded or finished unless absolutely necessary to the guitar's performance". No other custom guitar maker makes a comparable pledge.