Coronado Bass - almost finished!

[drbassman]

I've been wanting one of these for sometime, so I grabbed this one that will just need a little body touch up.  I won't touch this one for months and will wait for pups and neck to pop up on the bay.  If not,  I have a Musicmaster neck I can convert and will use TV Jones instead if necessary.  Heck, the TV pups are probably better sounding anyway!

[Dave W]

I miss the sound of my former Coronado, nothing wrong with those old DeArmond/Rowes. I don't miss the severe neck dive.

IIRC the Mustang neck would fit the pocket but with 19 frets instead of 21 you'd have to move the bridge back. Easy enough to move a floating bridge if there's enough flat space in the new bridge location on that arched top.

[Chris P.]

Great project! I love the looks of those TV Joneses so keep in touch with us about the sound!

[shadowcastaz]

I have always loved the Coronado. Isnt there one  called smartwood or wildwood. Nat finish etc. That is a cool project.  Doc,my info on the threads ok?

[Dave W]

Wildwood. IIRC it came from Scandinavian beech trees that had been injected with dye.

[shadowcastaz]

The one I remember was natural. very nice looker. Beech would be similar to maple in tone I bet,though its not as dense. Very stable though.

[drbassman]

I miss the sound of my former Coronado, nothing wrong with those old DeArmond/Rowes. I don't miss the severe neck dive.

IIRC the Mustang neck would fit the pocket but with 19 frets instead of 21 you'd have to move the bridge back. Easy enough to move a floating bridge if there's enough flat space in the new bridge location on that arched top.

Yeah, I miss the Coronado I sold a few years back too.  I didn't have much of a neck dive problem, so I was lucky there.  I'm actually going to use the Musicmaster neck as a model for a new one,  I can always make it little longer if necessary.  There's a lot of room on this body, so 19 frets still might be better anyway.  That should help any potential neck dive issues.

I'd like to find the right pups, but they are pretty rare on the nay.  We'll see what pops up!

Man, I am such a bass ho................

[drbassman]

Wildwood. IIRC it came from Scandinavian beech trees that had been injected with dye.

Dave's got it right.  Very intersting basses and guitars as a result!

[Pilgrim]

Dave's got it right.  Very intersting basses and guitars as a result!

Someone recently asked why they decided to inject trees instead of dying the wood.......never figured that one out myownself.

[shadowcastaz]

Letting nature do its thing.

[drbassman]

Letting nature do its thing.

Amen!

[Dave W]

A couple of pages from Jules' site:
Some closeups of the wood
1968 catalog page

[drbassman]

I was gonna post those.  Thanks Dave.   These are really funky looking instruments.  There have been a few Coro guitars on eBay in the Wildwood wood.  They are cool.

[drbassman]

Got an old beat up Coronado neck for my project, so at least the neck and body will be authentic.

[drbassman]

Well, did I luck out our what!?!  The guy I bought the neck from I knew from the old Fender forum I used to hang out in and he sold me a really nice complete Coronado wiring harness with pups to go along with the neck!  Now we're talking!