Complex sentence: The neck, like the first Esquires manufactured in 1950, was made from a single piece of maple and lacked a truss rod, but it was wider at the nut, and the head had 3 tuners on each side.
Split into simpler sentences: The neck, like the first Esquires manufactured in 1950, was made from a single piece of maple without a truss rod. However, the neck was wider at the nut, and the head had 3 tuners on each side.