Quick question about Coronados

GreenKnee · Post by **GreenKnee** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:31 pm

So, I'm very close to buying a Coronado II, the only thing is, on the headstock it simply says 'Fender'; no Coronado, or Coronado II.

Is this normal?

I'll of course post more pics if I get it

Jack

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:41 pm

i'd say it's likely. definitely doesn't look fake, so no real cause for concern.

i wish they made II's without blocks.

GreenKnee · Post by **GreenKnee** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:48 pm

Im thinking it definitely looks legit too, just wanted to be sure, thanks

its '66 by the way if this helps.

Jack

Edit:

I found this one online with the same thing, so I'm happy

http://www.guitar-museum.com/guitar-510 ... rd-binding

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:45 am

It appears that people used to scratch the decals off so they can pretend they had Strats. 30 years before the web, people didn't have photos or compare info, so they had some backwards assed ideas. It could also have been youth and the drugs.

That neck and headstock look real enough to me.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:40 pm

The Coronado bit of the script is black so it might just not show on the pics.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:26 am

Oh, duh. I just had that happen to me with a Jazzmaster decal on black.

James · Post by **James** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:41 am

Thomas wrote:The Coronado bit of the script is black so it might just not show on the pics.

The standard headstock colour is black (for the cherry and sunburst body colours) so it wouldn't be that. It's only an outline but you'd definitely see enough of it for it to show up.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:46 am

Yeah, I just thought it might be the angle the pic was taken at. Looking at it again however you can see that the placement of the Fender logo is pretty far away from the nut.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:05 pm

Could be someone applied a new decal on this one?

mcjt · Post by **mcjt** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:48 pm

also they may have been out of Coro decals that day and used something else.. and clipped off the other model's name.
and more likely, this could be an early Coronado or prototype- apparently Fender initially wanted to call the new guitar the Aztec, but then changed to the Coronado. Once in a while, an early Coronado will show up with no model name on it- Fender hadn't either decided on the name or made the decals yet!