The Fender Squire '51 uses a pickup in the bridge position and a strat style (3.5kΩ) pickup in the neck position. The 4-wire bridge pickup allows for by pulling up on the volume control knob to limit the humbucker to single-coil output. The neck pickup is slanted with respect to the strings, better aligning the single-coil pole spacing under string's narrower spacing. The lower control knob is a three-position rotary switch, selecting between the neck pickup, neck + humbucker, or humbucker.
The guitar body is basswood 1-9/16" thick (~1/4" thinner than standard Strats), with edge reliefs for forearm & belly, with 2 separate pickup cavities, connected by a drilled passage started from the neck pocket. The pickup-to-switch cavity wire passage is also drilled from the side (as opposed to top routed recesses), leaving the finished top relatively plain and uncluttered under the large pickguard. The neck is one piece maple, a with peg-head / square heel profile identical to Telecasters, routed from backside for a peghead-accessible truss rod, the slot capped with "skunk-stripe". The fret board is highly figured maple.
Features include a basswood body, satin-finish maple neck with "C"-shaped profile, 9.5"-radius maple fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets, and 25.5" scale, "chrome dome" master volume control knob that also functions as a push-pull bridge pickup coil-selector switch (full humbucking or inner coil only for single-coil bridge pickup tone), knurled "chrome dome" three-position rotary pickup selector switch (in place of a tone control knob), single-ply pickguard and six-saddle top loading hard-tail bridge.
This one is NOS and has been stored in my workshop at least 14 years, in its original box.
