"After seeing Jeff Beck and the `Yardbirds' in the 60's, his Esquire® was the guitar I wanted more than any other. " The audacity of someone taking a grinder to a slab bodied `Holy Grail' guitar was just so cool!"

"That actual guitar now resides in my friend Seymour Duncan's collection, but I did have the opportunity to spend some time with it, and the result is the Fret-King Green Label Country Squire Yardbird."

"It's common knowledge that the front of the guitar was contoured with a forearm chamfer, but unless you've actually held and played the original guitar, you'd never know that the back also had a ribcage chamfer contoured in."

"The Fret-King Yardbird is loaded with a Seymour Duncan© Broadcaster© repro pickup, voiced by the man himself, and the body is even routed for a front pickup if you would like to fit one later, just like the original."

"Just like the original Esquire, the 3-way pickup selector on the Yardbird is actually a tone selector. In forward position the tone control is bypassed and a preset bassy tone, created by running the pickup through two capacitors and a resistor, is accessed."

"With the selector in the middle position both tone and volume work as normal; whilst in the last position the tone control is bypassed, allowing the pickup to go direct with all of its power and tone."

"It doesn't get more real!"

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