i'll have a coronado II please, thanks.

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i'll have a coronado II please, thanks.

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the 'nado arrived today. quick bit of background- wanted one for years, watched as the prices went up and up through my post-student years of poverty and resigned myself to never getting one without paying big bucks. i'd considered buying one from the states, but what with the weak pound and factoring in shipping and potential import fees etc, it was working out at about £900. so then i thought i'd get a hagstrom viking instead, very similar construction, i know i like the necks and pickups, but there just didn't seem to be any good ones coming up for sale...

so, i saw this coronado on ebay UK, thought "nah, can't afford it" then a couple of days later thought "what the hell, i want it". so now i have it.

what swung me was the custom colour and matching headstock (candy apple red). i haven't seen that many of them around on the net, and thought it looked amazing. it has a bigsby that the seller claims is original to the guitar. i have my doubts, but there isn't really any way of telling, i suppose. i must admit that was another deciding factor, i do like a bigsby on a hollowbody.

sound-wise, it's pretty much as you'd expect- a hollowbody fender. i.e. nice bright bridge pickup and warm tones from the neck, absolutely beautiful to my lugholes. i can foresee this becoming one of my favourite guitars. the neck is lovely too, nice and thin for my little midget paws. i'm so pleased to finally have one of these. anyway, enough gushing, on to the photos (in artificial light, sorry):
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will try and get some daylight photos on friday, the colour really is beautiful.
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as per usual, beautiful guitar, you're building quite the vintage collection stewart
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unfortunately i'm going to have to sell a few things to cover the outlay on this. :cry:

3 guitars, i've calculated. ah well. worth it for this, i think.
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that thing is pretty clean, i love the colour and the binding.

awesome buy.
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Awesome....Hurb and I checked one of those out at Freedom guitars here is SoCal...The one we checked out was going for like 2400 USD or something and one of the pickups was messed up....

Anyways, nice guitar.
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nice guitar...congrats on the purchase...
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The binding is ace - nice buy Stewart.
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Nice, very nice. Well done Stewart, demo or you did'nt buy it! Love the detail and wear 8)
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thank you peoples.

fran, i'll maybe have a bash at a demo at the weekend, but i'll probably chicken out. my mic stand is god knows where, so it would be 'microphone-wedged-in-shoe-and-leaning-against-speaker-fabric' style..
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condenser mic in a pint glass was my setup for a good few months when i broke me mount. it's how most of my demos were recorded hahaha.
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stewart wrote:it would be 'microphone-wedged-in-shoe-and-leaning-against-speaker-fabric' style..
sounds up to par for a shortscale demo, DEW IT!!!
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stewart wrote:thank you peoples.

fran, i'll maybe have a bash at a demo at the weekend, but i'll probably chicken out. my mic stand is god knows where, so it would be 'microphone-wedged-in-shoe-and-leaning-against-speaker-fabric' style..
Well, for once i am quite serious, i would like to hear this with natural tubez sounds. I bet the tone oozes out.
Looks great. Whats the vintage total now dude?
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my demo was shite that i did on me dimebag darrell pedal.
no mic just my shitty camera mike so it sounded shit.
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Beautiful stuff indeed, that's a real looker.
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As long as people get a rough idea... My demos sound shit as well, sounds like im playing through an Eventide with a DS-1 :lol:
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Fran wrote:
stewart wrote:thank you peoples.

fran, i'll maybe have a bash at a demo at the weekend, but i'll probably chicken out. my mic stand is god knows where, so it would be 'microphone-wedged-in-shoe-and-leaning-against-speaker-fabric' style..
Well, for once i am quite serious, i would like to hear this with natural tubez sounds. I bet the tone oozes out.
Looks great. Whats the vintage total now dude?
i'll give it a bash. you won't catch me talking though.

totals, er... well pretty much everything i have is vintage at the moment so that makes... 11 counting my bass and that shit teisco audition thing. but like i said, some stuff's a-going soon.
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stewart wrote:
Fran wrote:
stewart wrote:thank you peoples.

fran, i'll maybe have a bash at a demo at the weekend, but i'll probably chicken out. my mic stand is god knows where, so it would be 'microphone-wedged-in-shoe-and-leaning-against-speaker-fabric' style..
Well, for once i am quite serious, i would like to hear this with natural tubez sounds. I bet the tone oozes out.
Looks great. Whats the vintage total now dude?
i'll give it a bash. you won't catch me talking though.

totals, er... well pretty much everything i have is vintage at the moment so that makes... 11 counting my bass and that shit teisco audition thing. but like i said, some stuff's a-going soon.
I dont talk neither, hate my broad accent. 11 wtf? :shock:
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they've just sort of piled up... time for a spring clean, and all that!
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Very lovely - any idea on what guitars you'll be letting go?
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That shit looks AMAZIN'
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