The New Coronado...

[Lowbrow]

... looks best in CAR, slick.

 

[RED J]

Just when I was all done with bucket list... sigh.

 

[FrednBass]

GAS

Nothing else to say

 

[jacksonev94]

GAS

Nothing else to say

+1

 

[mpdd]

now we gotta compare and contrast the sounds of the coronado and the starcaster while not forgetting the starfire, the casady, and the new gretsches, it's going to be fun

 

[Joe Nerve]

If I remember correctly, you're the guy who got me into trouble with some other fenders a while back. Forgot if it was the tele bass, or the antigua reissues... you like to start trouble around here don't you. Troll.

Congratulations, you've done it again,

 

[BassmanM]

OMG! And its a shortscale too!

 

[Guinness20]

Gggrrrrrrrr, why does this have to look so pretty?! I like the gretsch short scale bass, I like the Gibson midtown more, but this is in another league!

 

[m1ghty GIR]

now we gotta compare and contrast the sounds of the coronado and the starcaster while not forgetting the starfire, the casady, and the new gretsches, it's going to be fun

Don't forget the new Midtown and ES-335 gibsons!!!!

 

[IPA]

Does nothing for me... gimme that Starcaster all day long though.

 

[Lowbrow]

If I remember correctly, you're the guy who got me into trouble with some other fenders a while back. Forgot if it was the tele bass, or the antigua reissues... you like to start trouble around here don't you. Troll.

Congratulations, you've done it again,

May have been me 'cause the MP Tele got me excited, too! If it makes you feel any better I bought one also. But it was a 10+ lb. log so I returned it to GC in exchange for an Allen Woody Rumblekat. Upshot of the whole deal, I am forever cured (yeah, right) of multi-pickup basses. Not because they don't sound good, but because I am vexed by having too many variants and can never stop fiddling.

 

[pbass888]

Gotta get one now

 

[Mustang Surly]

I also prefer the Starcaster, not being a fan of either bound fretboards or block inlays.

Short-scale with center block...hell yeah!

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Has anyone seen the "street price" for these? I'm so glad that they didn't use the old dyed wood style of the original models. They were grotesque.

 

[FrednBass]

Not shure, but I'd guess that the SP will be around $800-900 or so

 

[Mustang Surly]

Starcaster would be even better if it was string-through...but I don't reckon a guy can have EVERYTHING, now can he?

 

[jbiscuti]

Psyched.

 

[Iridescentone]

Has anyone seen the "street price" for these?

I think I saw a bunch on ebay yesterday...$750 shipped.

 

[k-Plunk]

The pickups are "fidelitron". They look like the filtertrons on the Gretsch basses of late. This probably means an easy upgrade to TVJones. I am not sure if the originals were full hollow. They probably were, they had a floating bridge. These reissues have pinned bridges and a center block. I wonder if the block is full depth or if it just hugs the face like on the new Gretsch Electromatics.

The cherry burst is calling out to me.

 

[nshuman]

Yeah, an upgrade to TVJones pickups will probably be a very good thing. Pickup placement looks like it will sound a lot like a Gretsch with the bridge one all the way back.