Bacchus wrote:I know you all love them, but Coronets and Wilshires are some of the worst looking guitars. They look like the guitar equivalent of roadkill.
Lole, park me here too.
I do love the headstock plate thang on these new ones though.. although I realise they are probably period rather than new?
Agree on the scratchplate, headstock on the current ones looks sweet though.
Hmm the bigsby one.. Flip lefty, sell righty bigsby and fit lefty bigsby.
Well it's not a bigsby but... Ehhh...
I've been looking at bigsby B5 with the jazzmaster mounting plate.. Pricey business but I dig it... As they make lefties.
Yeah Fender, lefty trems other than strat trems, look at that!
Coronets, Wilshires and Olympics of all generations that were made in Kalamazoo are visually the best guitar designs among all the set neck guitars and the shapes of the pickguards are some of the best in my personal opinion, while Crestwoods with batwing headstock and binding on the headstock are some of the fugliest guitars ever.
The symmetrical pickguard especially on the post 1964 Coronets is by far my favourite shape of all
See, I love the Coronets (etc.) and think they're brilliant. And I'm equally relieved and depressed that it's a dull-as-fuck Medium-C neck, because if they'd done something brave (but divisive) like sticking a fat neck on there, I'd have bought one.
benecol wrote:See, I love the Coronets (etc.) and think they're brilliant. And I'm equally relieved and depressed that it's a dull-as-fuck Medium-C neck, because if they'd done something brave (but divisive) like sticking a fat neck on there, I'd have bought one.
Exactly. I get the feeling most people don’t like a fat neck though.
I don't mind chunky necks, but I just can't get on with fat ones. Most SGs I've played have had fat necks, and it just doesn't feel right to me. Especially on slender guitars. These do look awesome though.
