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So I flipped some pedals and got a hell of a deal on a friend's 95 American standard tele. I'd been lusting after it for years, and dude said he never used it anymore. It's all beat up, so I don't have to worry about dropping it or anything. The bridge pickup is INSANE. Total audio violence.


neck is stamped Dec 66, neck plate denotes early 70s, so we're splitting the difference and calling it
MY 1969 CORONADO II


Well, I can't believe this happened. Last week we were on vacation in (among other places) Duluth MN. I demanded to go to the Music-Go-Round, where we saw this beautiful beast. I played it, and dug it. HARD. Well, Dear Wife and I talked about it for a while, and it seemed like we probably had just about enough money to spare. Holy Shit, Right? Anyway, we were discussing the purchase, and the kids starting FREAKING OUT, so in a huff, I announced. "LETS GO."

When we got home we finished the discussion and decided to go for it. I called them up and bought it over the phone. Luckily, my friend/co-guitarist/employee Hoffmonster was in Duluth, and brought that shit home!
I played it a bit today, it has fucking itsy bitsy flatwound strings, so it's a little tricky. But it sounds really good. the pickups remind me quite a bit of p90s. Really full. Also, seeing as it is HOLLOW that shit vibrates and feedsback instantly and GLORIOUSLY. Except with a Rat. Then it's just microphonic squeel. Ok, I admit it, Ill probably use that noise.

Also, HIpstamatic for iPhone FTW.

Sweet new geets, Aen! But..

aen wrote:Also, HIpstamatic for iPhone FTW.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That coronado deserves some better pics

Nice guitars

Like hipstamatic, love Coronado! Squeal away, man. The checkers, the checkers.

aen wrote:neck is stamped Dec 66, neck plate denotes early 70s, so we're splitting the difference and calling it
MY 1969 CORONADO II

don't pay any attention to the neck plate, for some reason coronados all have 500,000 serials. go by what's on the neck stamp. the pickups are the older style, i think they switched to the black topped ones at some point in '67.

the bridge looks aftermarket though on closer inspection.

More telecasters and coronados, this thread is a disappointment. This is the pic I expect to see on a holey new guitar thread.


only joking nice tele...

Fender put so many different bridges on these things I wouldn't be surprised if that was original. CHECKAR BOARD BIDNING

Love the coronado, very jealous. The Tele's pretty too

I don't think the bridge is OG. It looks like a fairly new TOM. I HAVE to get that bridge stuck down though. It slides all over the place. Hello intonation nightmare.

That's radical to know uts a legit 66 though. I like to imagine it hung out with lightrails jazzmaster before they shipped.
Also, it has a big decal from what looks like the original store, in Santa Monica. I think I've found my camera, so ican take some bigass hires shittin pics soon.

Defo looks like a 66 like mine. Has the checker board binding, the chrome d'armond pups. The later models had the black pups with chrome around them i think. Good score!

Hot as hell. Love me some Coronados.

BANGIN'

I don't care what year it is. Coronado II's are awesome. I would love one day. Nice score, Aen. I think you could right it off as a business expense. The official Dwarcraft Coronado II!

Dude, wall hangers were a nightmare. Apparentlyw e have no studs in our wall here, and the little plastic things you're supposed to drive into drywall did not work one bit. But now my living room looks all cool.

"allright kids, your duosonics are on the floor, play with them. Do not touch the wall guitars. DO NOT TOUCH THE CORONADO. THE RED ONE. ORANGE. WHATEVER, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!"

Also, really hard to get a nice pic in my dark ass house in the dark ass night.

so jealous aen. coro will always be one of my dream guitars. i actually have dreams of owning a lefty coronado for reals.

love the burst on it. semi hollow or hollow, i crave a guitar like that, the more feedback the better, but this one has it all, looks hot, sounds hot, glad it will get some PROPER use from now on.

IM SO GLAD I SWITCHED TO BASS FOR OUR NEXT ALBUM. NOW I CAN LOOK LONGINGLY AT MY GUITARS FOR 6 MONTHS WHILE A THUMB THE DUM DUM STICK.

The one thing I dislike about coronados is the weird / and \ f-holes.

I think you might like them if you turned up real loud and felt the air rushing out of them onto your arm.

shame the headstock is a different color, but looks great next to the reunited aenmaster!!!

Whoaz aen has the aenmaster again!?