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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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Could be someone applied a new decal on this one?

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!