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Location: Nashville TN. | Charlie Pride a long time ago.
Looks like a Fender headstock.
I do not remember Fender hollowbody
http://www.mojvideo.com/video-charley-pride-kaw-liga/e77b6b1174c1fe... |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | That's a customized Starcaster isn't it? With a Strat neck and a custom paint job by the looks of it... Saw the Killers on TV the other day and guitar player had one.
These are not the Starcasters they make now (which are a rather nasty Strat knock-off thingy...), but the 70's one, made to compete the the Gibson ES guitars.
Some info found here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Starcaster |
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Location: Texas | Fender Coronado… |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Forgot about the Coronado, I played a Coronado bass when I was just a nipper... They were made in 60's, right? Charlie's era anyway, lol |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I think it's an Antigua II as pictured HERE. |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | HOLY SH-T!! Did you see the prices of those things on eBay?!!
Never would have guessed they'd go that high in a billion years!! Wonder if they ever sell any of them, lol. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Avatar4550:
Did you see the prices of those things on eBay?!!
Ya don't even want to look at vintage Gibbie$ if tho$e Fender$ $care ya! 
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Location: Caribou, ME | In 1984 I saw an old hollow body in a used junk shop. It had been painted red with little gold sparkles sprinkled over it. I thought, wow, this thing as a Fender tailpiece on it, with it's big backwards F. I flipped it over and it had a Fender neckplate too. Eyes up to the tuners.... big F's on them too. A couple months prior I had bought Tom Wheeler's American Guitars and recalled seeing a Fender hollow body... aha! This is one of those Coronado things.
They didn't know what it was. The headstock had been painted too. $49.99 later I walked out the door with it. I found out it was a '67 Coronado II.
I was able to wet sand the headstock so the decal was visible. I stripped the body and sprayed it with clear urethane. I think the only real money I laid out was for an aftermarket bridge. The bridge that was on it was just altogether wrong.
Lost it in a horse trade about a year later. I got it back a couple years after that in a shopping bag. The neck ended up on a hand made maple Strat body. I painted the body black and fit a '63 Jaguar neck onto it with a P-90 in the neck position and what I believe was an original PAF humbucker in the bridge. I sold it for $150 so I could buy food. I pieced it together in the living room near the kerosene heater. That was 1987.... one long winter. Those parts would bring rude money nowadays. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Bassman Brad had a Coronado II back in the late 60's. He said it was a total piece of sh#t! People buy them because they say "Fender" on the headstock. |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Originally posted by kotadawg:
Bassman Brad had a Coronado II back in the late 60's. He said it was a total piece of sh#t! People buy them because they say "Fender" on the headstock. That's sorta what I meant... I follow the Gibson market pretty close (especially vintage Firebirds... used to have a '63 and sold it... what an idiot!!).
I always thought these would be the fringes of Fender collectibilty. If they are getting $2000+ for these things (which are more or less useless...), it's probably time for a 'market correction', lol. |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I wish I had mine back. It may have been ugly but it was a great surf guitar. And with the DeArmond pickups it was like Duane Eddy playing the Surfaris. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Yes, a Coronado Antigua, you can see it written on the pickguard. My mom had a CP record with that guitar pictured on the cover. Fender offered the Antigua color across most of the lineup at one point in the seventies.
Want one?
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OT anyone know what the the kool lookin gtar is?