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Gear Discussion Forums => Fender Basses => Topic started by: ilan on April 14, 2024, 10:39:07 AM

Title: Antigua is back
Post by: ilan on April 14, 2024, 10:39:07 AM

Squier Antigua P-bass ($418), Bass VI ($454), Strat and Tele Custom available for preorder at European retailers.

Yeah, it's pukeburst, it looks like your granny's cooker or fridge, but it grows on me.

(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HBK6K2jsBhpfzcALFBgJnJ-650-80.jpg.webp)

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: Ken on April 14, 2024, 10:54:27 AM

I'm a fan of that finish. Probably no left-handed version, though.  Plus I don't find Fender comfortable.

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: Alanko on April 14, 2024, 12:15:24 PM

It is an audacious colour. I like it but my wife hates it. It goes beyond the realm of bad taste and back into being cool, for me. 

I've seen photos of, I think, one original guitar in zero hour condition and the finish looked like a sort of grey burst over Olympic white? The cheese-yellow-green tones all come from the clear coat yellowing, potentially. This would make the Squier finish an aged Antigua rather than exactly what rolled off the production line? My Antigua timeline is a bit approximate; I know they made the finish to hide glue seepage issues on the Coronado guitars in the '60s (quite a profound 'smokeburst' finish), but also rolled it out on many models in the late '70s?. I've seen photos of Antigua Mustang basses.

It wouldn't be too hard to find a maple neck with dots and a big slutty '70s Fender headstock logo to make the bass truer to the originals. I don't like blocks on a P Bass.

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: Dave W on April 14, 2024, 02:26:36 PM

Hideously ugly as ever.

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: Alanko on April 14, 2024, 03:25:16 PM

Kitchen sold separately.

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr6WHJ4MgbMVqsxXuVWDojCPQH1HJH_lvfyuiIBOQgC_bZvJfmBuisTj9PG-M5utAsko7BIchSruSEenCTtu5HHqTHubajk9F4dySZXvJWl6zEHSF4kdKmHIsDha-Bj1SrDRfh/s1600/original.png)

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: morrow on April 15, 2024, 05:35:13 AM

I still get a shudder when I see one.

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: gearHed289 on April 15, 2024, 08:00:45 AM

 :puke:

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: ilan on April 16, 2024, 07:05:17 AM

Quote from: Alanko on April 14, 2024, 12:15:24 PM

The cheese-yellow-green tones all come from the clear coat yellowing, potentially. This would make the Squier finish an aged Antigua rather than exactly what rolled off the production line?

Fender have applied Antigua as a NOS some years ago. A friend of mine got a Strat, I thought it looked incorrect. We perceive Antigua in its lightly aged form.

Some 70s Antiguas didn't have lacquered guards, so the only body shows yellowing.

(https://rvb-img.reverb.com/image/upload/s--m68BvFI1--/a_0/f_auto,t_large/v1692697289/jojxevgwscdfubzto80q.jpg)

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: ilan on April 30, 2024, 03:55:33 AM

Before and after clearcoat yellowing

(https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Vintage_AvocadoOven.jpg?fit=700,700)
(https://www.tasteofhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VintageAppliance_YellowStove.jpg?fit=700,700)

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: Alanko on April 30, 2024, 11:53:44 AM

The Squier finish looks ultra yellowed then. A shame! I think the MIM stuff from ~10 years ago was closer to the originals?

Title: Re: Antigua is back
Post by: ilan on April 30, 2024, 11:58:09 PM

Quote from: Alanko on April 30, 2024, 11:53:44 AM

The Squier finish looks ultra yellowed then. A shame! I think the MIM stuff from ~10 years ago was closer to the originals?

Agreed, but almost everyone associate vintage with aged, so from a marketing point of view they made the right choice with the hue.