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NEW Squier Telecaster Bass!
- Thread starter MUSHROOMSeAcOw
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Mong..ok there's me and chef and my friend Dave in Poland and..um, wait I'll get the list it's around somewhere.
no. I just hope they reissue it (may I?) and that they see some profit out of the equation... in other words: to reissue (to like) the Coronado is not mandatory, but it does not mean this cannot be technically done or that it would be economically not convenient.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iFpLWENyA&feature=related
it may very well be! Its a wild world, after all, you know? Otherwise they wouldn't have issued the original Coronado (now: this is... "a fact"!)
mtonbass said:Hmmm ...
Well I did go with stacked V/T controls.
Conceptualized (and crudely sketched out) by me; built masterfully by Drake Customs. Still absolutely loving it!
Dude, that bass looks SWEET!
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Man I really like that white one, but the black with a black pick guard would be sexy as hell also.
it may very well be! Its a wild world, after all, you know? Otherwise they wouldn't have issued the original Coronado (now: this is... "a fact"!)
Factoid: the Coronado was a Roger Rossmeisel design.
Another fact is that the Coronado Bass never sold well.
Thank you. Andrew named her Vera but I call her my Tele-P.
I love it and I play it - though she is pretty to look at, too!
Well, I just want to know if it's possible to turn it a full scale. I mean, I think it's just getting a Mike Dirnt, a VM or a CV '50s neck and moving the bridge back. Boom! You've got yourself a Tele... Or is it not?
Yes, yes, neck dive... Nonetheless...
Yes, yes, neck dive... Nonetheless...
Now can we tempt the bass Gods and ask for a Thinline complete with F Hole
Thinline would be very sweet!
YESSSSSSS!!!!
Perhaps this will be the Fender-branded model, in another year's time. I base my assertion on how Squier's Classic Vibe line's success gave rise to the Fender Modern Player Series.
What does this mean? Just cannot get the meaning of your statement, please explain to me, thanks!
ok: and so? We're talking about 40 years ago or even more. I repeat myself (and now you tell me that this is not true!): with today technologies and a far east outsourcing/manufacturing you can actually market an excellent performing axe at a very reasonable cost that would make the Coronado absolutely feasible and profitable. Unless somebody says "No, I don't like the aestethic, or the lollipops, or Rossmeisel vetoed it, or the black headstock is forbidden by the law, or whatever else" then I will stop daydreaming... in the meantime I continue thinking that it actually is too bad and absolutely shortsighted they don't reissue it.
Look: I bought in 2008 a Link Removed for 320 euro; then on 2009 I got me a Eastwood Classic 4 (500 usd including shipping Us to Italy) and they are both beautiful and good sounding basses (just look at what Ed says in the youtube test). Both made in China and sold on the market at reasonable prices, having an excellent Q/P.
40 years ago they manufactured the Coronado in the USA with the cost of labor being what was then and they obviously needed to sell an X amount to gain some money out of the project; today you can do... anything you want and at the price you want, still having a noteworthy good Q/P (look at the Squiers or the CV, the VM etc.) Therefore, not reissuing the Coronado they just give up to others (Gretsch, Epi, Warwick, Washburn, Eastwood, Ibanez, Yamaha etc.) this small but appealing hollowbody niche and it's just too bad for the hollowbody lovers: this axe IS a piece of history, as the Bass VI or the Telecaster etc. etc. and it would deserve being reissued...
To say today that "Coronado never sold well" is just meaningless. It would just be identical as look, body shapes etc. but it would be a completely new axe. Now, if you don't like the hollows I can fully understand; but to say that today the reissue of the Coronado would not be economically good as it was 40 years ago, well, again: neither you or I know this for sure, man. It wouldn't certainly sell as the Stratocaster or the Precision, but still...
I started myself polls on the subject even here on TB and the general consensus on the Coronado has always been thumb up....
