Fender do an Epiphone?

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:37 pm

Fender coronet any one?

http://www.makenmusic.com/product.cfm?p ... 50&catID=1

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:54 pm

Some opinions here:
http://shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.p ... =rattlecan

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:16 pm

i must have missed that thread...

George · Post by **George** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:18 pm

For what it's worth I think these were ridiculously expensive for what they were, and uninspired. I use the past tense because it was a very limited run and they're now all sold.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:20 pm

Yeah, at half the price, they'd have been pretty cool... but at $1k, for a "stripped down" instrument, it was ridiculous.

avj · Post by **avj** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:26 pm

GeorgeF wrote:For what it's worth I think these were ridiculously expensive for what they were, and uninspired. I use the past tense because it was a very limited run and they're now all sold.

Elderly still have a few.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:32 pm

Ankhanu wrote:Yeah, at half the price, they'd have been pretty cool... but at $1k, for a "stripped down" instrument, it was ridiculous.

$1k fuck! that's at least $700 too much

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:52 am

A Stratosonic . Sweet fucking axe . Also came in a double P-90 which I would prefer. There's also a Telesonic which is even nicer .

George · Post by **George** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:03 am

Rox wrote:A Stratosonic . Sweet fucking axe . Also came in a double P-90 which I would prefer. There's also a Telesonic which is even nicer .

Actually, yeah they were pretty cool guitars. What happened to them? A rerelase would have been a better option.

And fuck that dodgy neck pocket.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:13 am

Ankhanu wrote:Yeah, at half the price, they'd have been pretty cool... but at $1k, for a "stripped down" instrument, it was ridiculous.

And one where they plugged a spare hole in it because it was from another model with left over parts. Definitely a classy product worth a grand. Well done fender - at least you can identify a market of rich morons when you see one.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:46 pm

Yeah im not diggin it either. Funny how i used to exclusively love fender but nowadays i usually pass by their section in guitar stores

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:04 pm

GeorgeF wrote:
Rox wrote:A Stratosonic . Sweet fucking axe . Also came in a double P-90 which I would prefer. There's also a Telesonic which is even nicer .
Actually, yeah they were pretty cool guitars. What happened to them? A rerelase would have been a better option.

And fuck that dodgy neck pocket.

Sadly to say they went the way for the Venus , Cyclones and Toronados . And I don't mean Kansas...

Fender always does that . They come out with a cool design that's a little " out of their box " and then the scrap it to go their original status quo .
Not meaning to hijack but they'll discontinue the Toronado calling it a flop and the other day I just saw a Fender T shirt with a Toronado on it . Good enough for a t-shirt , huh ? Gibson too. They'll stop production of a Reverse Firebird ( which people want) and make the Firebird X which is just retarded . But you'll see Reverse F-Birds on their t-shirts . The whole thing is just doopid .

Back on subject ..... If you ever see one of the Strato or Tele Sonics play one . Nice guitar . I want to say that Strato had Blackdoves . Very Jazzy sounding . Nothing like a Strat.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:33 pm

Rox wrote:doopid.