If Fender are taking notes, FSR Modern Player Coronado in Shoreline Gold please!
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 4:13 pm
by taylornutt
Wow! Never seen a gold one. Must be a custom factory paint job.
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 4:16 pm
by iCEByTes
bonner
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 4:33 pm
by stewart
iCEByTes wrote:bonner
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:45 am
by oldcanuck
I really like that !!!!! REALLY
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:48 am
by LizardKing
jayyj wrote:Stunning. Hard to believe it's not a new guitar.
Agree, hope it is real.
Looks too nice, but I'd still keep it either way.
If Fender are taking notes, FSR Modern Player Coronado in Shoreline Gold please!
Screw Modern, make it like that one with the 7-1/4" rad....
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:06 am
by paul_
jayyj wrote:If Fender are taking notes, FSR Modern Player Coronado in Shoreline Gold please!
I'd imagine the FMIC is embarrassed as fuck this pic of their dark past got out. No TOM, no 9.5" radius, no jumbo frets, no Duncan Designed P90s...
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:23 am
by Beau
That F-hole binding...
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:45 am
by Noirie.
paul_ wrote:
jayyj wrote:If Fender are taking notes, FSR Modern Player Coronado in Shoreline Gold please!
I'd imagine the FMIC is embarrassed as fuck this pic of their dark past got out. No TOM, no 9.5" radius, no jumbo frets, no Duncan Designed P90s...
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:35 am
by jcyphe
Gold and black is a good combo.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:18 am
by NickS
jcyphe wrote:Gold and black is a good combo.
Although, according to Mr. T, there is such a thing as too much gold; it was causing him neck problems.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:13 am
by sunshiner
Someone educate me on original pickups of Coronado. What are they the beasts? They look like P90 or some of Gretsch pickups or Rickenbacker highgains, but what they are inside? Are they just usual strat style pickups with magnet pole pieces and without any magnet at the bottom under the coils and that just covered diferently? Or they are of exlusive design?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:02 pm
by BillClay
^
Really really weak Rowe-Dearmond pickups. Probably the oddest pairing of two companies ever.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:04 pm
by jcyphe
sunshiner wrote:Someone educate me on original pickups of Coronado. What are they the beasts? They look like P90 or some of Gretsch pickups or Rickenbacker highgains, but what they are inside? Are they just usual strat style pickups with magnet pole pieces and without any magnet at the bottom under the coils and that just covered diferently? Or they are of exlusive design?
It's a DeArmond pickup and IMO not a very good one(the silver cover) compared to other Dearmond designed/made pickups. But some people on this board seem to like them and Fender might have used two different versions.
Thank you for the information. I don't know a lot abour Dearmonds pickups, so it is the reason to read. I guess indistinct pickups became the reason why Coronado's werent' so popular at the time.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 5:11 pm
by Thomas
Coronado pickups are great. My mate Ray was always dissing them up until a few weeks ago when we went to see the Dandy Warhols and the dude broke a string on his Coronado and plugged in the other guitarists Tele while it was getting sorted, and Ray was the one who mentioned how bad the Tele sounded in comparison. It was comparatively flat sounding (And I love a Tele)
I guess it's a case of personal taste but it was interesting to see an A/B in a live situation, no amp tweaking etc just swapping the guitar and going with it. It was a Coro with the Black pickups (I personally prefer he sound of the original silver ones.)
