Fender RI's

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:12 pm

In a way im so sick of going to a music store and seeing a wall if strats and tele's.
Fender should really consider reissuing guitars that havent been seen in a while like the:

Electric XII the strat xii in my opinion sucked but the original rocked they should remake this.

The Coronado line: great guitars didnt last long enough they need to make a new set of these.

This goes against what i said earlier but: The Esquire a 50's esquire just isnt enough they should add a few more.

any more fender should bring back and anyone whos ever contacted fender is it possible to get these reissued?

DanHeron · Post by **DanHeron** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:29 pm

Starcaster:

They will never reissue a guitar if you contact them. I can only imagine them reissuing a guitar if lots of professional musicians and bands start using them.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:38 pm

Will · Post by **Will** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:23 am

Fender is kindof going down the crapper in general; you pay more and more for less and less. Squier is the one bright spot, but I don't think they're tooled up to make anything really cool.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:46 am

In fairness, the Coronado is completely unsuited to most modern music due to it being hollow and having extremely poor pickups. There's quite a few vintage examples still around, not much demand, and they're not massively expensive.

The Starcaster, however, is a hideous piece of seventies brainwrong. It's incredibly ugly, and has only gained cache in the last few years due to that greenwood douche. To tool-up to make this weird offset semi would not be practical for Fender, the pickups are no longer made, and I'm sure if they were in every Guitar Center people would realise they don't sound that great.

superfuzz · Post by **superfuzz** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:54 am

Im sure theyd use the normal wide rangers in the teles, which do sound lovely. But if I wanted a semi-hollow with wide rangers, id just use the thinline tele.

Will · Post by **Will** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:57 am

timhulio wrote:In fairness, the Coronado is completely suited to most modern music due to it being hollow and having extremely awesome pickups. There's quite a few vintage examples still around, not much demand, as most players aren't badass enough.

Fix'd

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:15 am

DuoSonicBoy wrote:Fender is kindof going down the crapper in general; you pay more and more for less and less. Squier is the one bright spot, but I don't think they're tooled up to make anything really cool.

yeah they used to be real creative with design in a very small way with teh tornado and the cyclone but anymore there just about the strats im so sick of them

squier had that cool duo sonic out there and there vintage modified (good p bass).

i wish there was a way to get fender to reissue all the old/good fenders and no more of this strat disease.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:16 am

DuoSonicBoy wrote:
timhulio wrote:In fairness, the Coronado is completely suited to most modern music due to it being hollow and having extremely awesome pickups. There's quite a few vintage examples still around, not much demand, as most players aren't badass enough.
Fix'd

hell yeah coronado's kick ass

aen · Post by **aen** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:58 am

meh. I really like telecasters, Jms and Jags. Im not too bent out of shape that fender isnt making their other failed guitars.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:52 am

+1 for starcaster

deaner33 · Post by **deaner33** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:03 am

One problem is that the Starcaster name is being used for Fender's crappiest line of guitars, which would outsell a Starcaster reissue by a mile.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:54 am

Fenders no longer interest me.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:55 am

aen wrote:meh. I really like telecasters, Jms and Jags. Im not too bent out of shape that fender isnt making their other failed guitars.

your saying if they reissued the electric xii you wouldnt buy one?

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:02 am

timhulio wrote:The Starcaster, however, is a hideous piece of seventies brainwrong. It's incredibly ugly, and has only gained cache in the last few years due to that greenwood douche. To tool-up to make this weird offset semi would not be practical for Fender, the pickups are no longer made, and I'm sure if they were in every Guitar Center people would realise they don't sound that great.

I imagine if they did reissue them, they'd come with the RI WR pickups, which aren't bad.

Plus I think the starcaster looks amazing. I wouldn't be after a reissue but I really like it.

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:15 am

lefty coronado lefty coronado lefty coronado lefty coronado

preferably japanese made (price)

i don't care if it feedbacks like crazy i would love a guitar that feedbacks like crazy

James · Post by **James** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:40 pm

Zaphod wrote:
timhulio wrote:The Starcaster, however, is a hideous piece of seventies brainwrong. It's incredibly ugly, and has only gained cache in the last few years due to that greenwood douche. To tool-up to make this weird offset semi would not be practical for Fender, the pickups are no longer made, and I'm sure if they were in every Guitar Center people would realise they don't sound that great.
I imagine if they did reissue them, they'd come with the RI WR pickups, which aren't bad.

Plus I think the starcaster looks amazing. I wouldn't be after a reissue but I really like it.

I have to admit I sometimes think it's ugly. It does look very nice in black though.

I played one in Denmark St and was a bit underwhelmed. The neck felt like a modern Tele Deluxe type neck. Not a bad thing but not what I'd be payin the big vintage fender bucks for. I played a Coronado II on the same day and wanted to take it home with me.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:47 pm

James wrote:
Zaphod wrote:
timhulio wrote:The Starcaster, however, is a hideous piece of seventies brainwrong. It's incredibly ugly, and has only gained cache in the last few years due to that greenwood douche. To tool-up to make this weird offset semi would not be practical for Fender, the pickups are no longer made, and I'm sure if they were in every Guitar Center people would realise they don't sound that great.
I imagine if they did reissue them, they'd come with the RI WR pickups, which aren't bad.

Plus I think the starcaster looks amazing. I wouldn't be after a reissue but I really like it.
I have to admit I sometimes think it's ugly. It does look very nice in black though.

I played one in Denmark St and was a bit underwhelmed. The neck felt like a modern Tele Deluxe type neck. Not a bad thing but not what I'd be payin the big vintage fender bucks for. I played a Coronado II on the same day and wanted to take it home with me.

yeah coronado II's are really good even if they feedback like hell

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:52 pm

im not a fan of the strat thing either, but thats just me. I think that the stratocaster is a great design and has a great place in the history of guitar design, but its a 50+ year old design and fender has not been able to match it(cept the jaggie baby so pretty)
it would be nice if they took the focus off of the sig series strats for a couple months and tried to create something new, like the t-90 or whatever, the semi hollow double cut with p-90's that was a pretty cool design but i never got to play one so i have no idea what they are actually like.

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:52 pm

bass v.
more lefty stuff.
a hollowbody series.