The moment many have been waiting for.....

Parker

.... http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/fender-resurrects-coronado-and-starcaster-583376/9 Some peeps will be very happy - especially at the price!

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Bloody hell! When I saw the 'MR' bit in the URL, I thought you were telling us the 'old place' had been turned back on!

monquixote

http://assets.fender.com/frl/14eae77acaca00c39c60d3ba98ad07f8/generated/86ceb3c861ac3d7b0737b2ccde488ca3.png

Want!

John_P

I just can't deal with that headstock - it would have been very tempting at the expected prices...

I'd love to see something like that with a strat head and a trem!  
It would help distract me from the bargain 335's in the other thread that I couldn't gig but want!

JookyChap

Ah, the headstock is gorgeous...

I'd give you a trem though - a nice Bigsby would suit it big-time

Jaded

Pity they didn't give the Coronado it's trem system. One of the smoothest trems I've ever used ...still I'd love to pick up one of each. 

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Fano are doing a high-end Starcaster-alike. Tone World have just got one in. It has the standard Fano headstock and looks really nice. The Fender looks great for the money....

badlydrawnbanjo

I touched on this in the other thread. the price quoted is for a red or black finish, bursts are more money. I'm very tempted but it does seem a lot of money for a Chinese made instrument with no case (of even a gig bag)

ICBM

John_P said:

I just can't deal with that headstock - it would have been very tempting at the expected prices...

Nor me - even though I know it's the original - or the Gibson bridge/tailpiece, which definitely isn't.

Close, but still a fail.

impmann

Yes, but its better than that horrid bodge the bridge used to be (packing pieces underneath it - nice one, Fender).

I like the headstock, it suits the shape of the rest of it - and if it had a Strat head on it it would look wrong. And a three-a-side would stray into Gibbo territory too...

Nice - but is it me, or does it look like a Photoplop mock up in that pic above? The reflections/colour of the pickups is wrong compared to the rest.

impmann

Oh and the the close up of the pickups on MR shows Fender attention to detail - the pickup ring is broken!!!!!! :P

stickyfiddle

That headstock is essential imo. The bridge I can handle, but the pickups will want replacing for (close to) that proper WRHB sound. I definitely fancy a black or blonde one.

Aside: Starcaster is a pain to touch-type. All left hand keys..!

raulduke

I remember seeing Jonny Greenwood play a Starcaster many years ago and I thought it was one of the coolest guitars I'd seen.

I reckon they are going to sell a load of these...

dogload

I liked the original one-piece bride/tailpiece. The TOM arrangement seems just a bit of a cop-out 

The headstock is essential to the whole Starcaster look.

Anyway, I'm still holding out for the cheaper Squier alternative. Maybe they'll stick the old-style bridge on it!

daveyh

badlydrawnbanjo said:

I touched on this in the other thread. the price quoted is for a red or black finish, bursts are more money. I'm very tempted but it does seem a lot of money for a Chinese made instrument with no case (of even a gig bag)

An alternative perspective: Two guitars next to each other, exactly the same spec, style etc but one is *clearly* the better instrument. It so happens the better one is MIC, the worse is MIA. If they were the same price, would you buy the MIA just because it was MIA?

Col_Decker

Horses for courses I guess but I'm going to file them guitars under the 'blurrgh' section

badlydrawnbanjo

daveyh said:

badlydrawnbanjo said:

I touched on this in the other thread. the price quoted is for a red or black finish, bursts are more money. I'm very tempted but it does seem a lot of money for a Chinese made instrument with no case (of even a gig bag)

An alternative perspective: Two guitars next to each other, exactly the same spec, style etc but one is *clearly* the better instrument. It so happens the better one is MIC, the worse is MIA. If they were the same price, would you buy the MIA just because it was MIA?

Not at all, I'd buy the better put together guitar, but I would expect the better one to be MIA or even MIM. My point being that the MIC modern player series are the Fender budget range and these, although not huge money aren't cheap. And you don't get anything to carry it in. I still want a Starcaster and a Coronado though 

Niallmo

Starcaster in Natural please.  Don't want an Es 339 anymore.

impmann

Japanese instruments used to be seen as poor quality relations - now the quality is equally as good as US guitars.

Korean guitars ditto - now you see £1000 guitars made in Korea and no-one blinks.

Chinese quality is coming up - and coming up very quickly. 

Personally, I don't give a flying fart where something is made, as long as it is *physically* good - and I pay little heed to folks telling me not to buy something just based on where its made. I'll check it out myself and make the decision. :-)

dindude

I mentioned it on another thread but why do Fender insist on everything having modern C neck shape, 9.5" - this combined with parts bin hardware and it's yet again the same Fender as all the rest with a different shape. No real individual character other than the looks. Haven't played one so may be wrong, but meh.

octatonic

I'm having one of those Starcasters.