is it time for an update?

looks great, fellow offset lover!

well, the coronado and viking are almost copies at first sight but they are two totally different animals
The viking is semi hollow (has a block under the bridge), is very light, pick ups are more responsive (stronger... hope you knwo what iw ant to say), neck is very thin (but also very fast)
But ...

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 ...

My SB Coronado in the photo is the same model and vintage as the one with Elvis and Nancy Sinatra :)


Elvis and Coronado


Good photo, too. Those two colors raise elevate your entire zip code. I just realized I could probably get all the rust off my CO bridge with the stuff I am using on the ...

Then i got another Coronado.....

i think the chrome pickups were from launch in 66 to sometime in 1967. in 67 you start seeing the black pups and fender launched the Wildwoods. I've only ever seen Wwood with the black pups.

James, i've followed Coro's for years but i think you've got a good point-
i've always seen the checkered binding with chrome pups, but Fender may have still had bodies in stock with the checker binding when they had migrated to the new pups. this photo is testament, though he may still have an ...

The checkered binding was an option in the early coronados. They always have Chrome pickups as it was only available early.
I've read that it was Rickenbacker who did the special binding for Fender. IIRC i even saw a photo of a checker bound Coro with a Rickenbacker shipping box!
I have a ...

beautiful, man! Congrats!

My Partsonado with Rickenbacker checkered binding:

I bought the body and then every piece one by one after that. Ripped the legs off a mustang bridge and it fit right onto the original Coro bridge feet! :)

The jazzmaster neck came off of it and i am reworking a USACG neck with a Coro headstock ...

very nice, fellow montrealer!!

!!??
they are sold 'as-is'. they need new strings, a set-up, some fret work, one has a BAD pickup?
jeez, i expect more from a reseller. i thought THEY set up guitars they sold, rather than just flip them and send them to impatient consumers with sharp tools....
... they need to be "CLEANED up ...

i see you're finding your usual awesome deals, Pat!

shit n stuff?

The EB3 is a HUGE salvage job. routed out for lefty, Rick bridge, defretted... i worked with a buddy- we cut pieces of mahogany and inserted them into the body, veneered over, refinned with nitro. the old machines were baked- put on schallers. but i haven't poney'ed up yet to pay a ...

Apologies. here is the Coronado.
there should be some shortscale love for the 30" scale Gibson SG Bass

L to R
Rear- Musikraft Korina jazzmaster. warmoth koa strat. 78 tele neck on warmoth thinline. 1959 sonic B jazzmaster.
Front- Warmoth precision, 1967 SG bass, Warmoth walnut jazz bass.
i have a coronado now too that is a beauty!

thanks!
USACG made me a paddle neck for it- this guitar will have a coro style neck on it. with a 7.25-9.5" radius. malagasy on maple.
I love Trane. and Bags. Lady Day. The Duke. And Django, obviously. All of them.

I like mine....
$200 for the body, $40 bridge, $60 tailpiece, cheap pups that have to be rewound, etc. A Musikraft jazzmaster neck in the meantime.

She sounds real purty too!