Fender Coronado Bass

Alder center block for improved sustain and feedback resistance.

Fender coronado bass. Fender is quite busy these days. I finally ordered this beauty the Fender Coronado Bass II for my birthday after watching stalking it for the past nine months. And along with the tension of the 255-inch scale this means that blazing away in high registers requires a little more stretch and fight from the fingers of your left hand.

Now the Coronado name and style have retu. The Fender Coronado bass guitars thin semi-hollow maple body has an alder center-block and bound top and back with stylish bound f-holes. Built as an upgrade to the Coronado I the Coronado II Bass added binding to the F-holes block inlays and a second pickup at the bridge position.

From Elvis to Death Cab Fenders obscure semi-hollow model grabs the spotlight. Fenders Coronado Bass may look like the spittin image of its 1960s ancestors but this axe is a thoroughly modern instrument with Fenders latest cutting-edge sonic and playability enhancements. The bass becomes more comfortable to play the more you return to it and the bulkiness is soon forgotten largely due to the highly playable neck.

Its C-shaped maple neck has a 95-radius white-bound rosewood fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets and elegant white pearloid block inlays. The Coronado Bass guitar is back with greater sound build and beauty than ever for the bassist who appreciates a different Fender bass with a special history. Production on these basses lasted until 1972 as the entire hollowbody Coronado line was phased out.

This bass has 18JUN67B rubber-stamped on the neck butt and Cherry penciled into the body cavity. The Coroando II Bass used a Maple body and neck and a Rosewood fingerboard. So much so in fact that we started making new and improved.

Ending Jun 28 at 942PM PDT. Roger Rossmeisl a luthier previously associated with Gibson and Rickenbacker designed the series which featured single- and dual-pickup guitars with and. Like many of the more esoteric Fender instruments of the 1960s and 70s Coronado guitars and the Coronado bass have enjoyed a very hip resurgence in more recent decades.