I know they are crap, but...

[ilan]

Coro's look great in white.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Vintage-Coronado-Bass-1-with-Orig-case-/251073527121?pt=Guitar&hash=item3a7525fd51#ht_500wt_1203

[Pilgrim]

I was in real trouble until I saw the price.

Now I'm safe.

Whew!!!!!!   

[Dave W]

I'd pay more for a I than a II. They sound better to me.

[drbassman]

I'd pay more for a I than a II. They sound better to me.

I've had two IIs and could never get them to sound good in a live situation.  I love the look, but the sound is weak.

[Droombolus]

It's a hell of a handsome design. I even like it in Antigua fin ...... Who's to blame, Roger Roßmeissl ?

[Pilgrim]

I think that all in all, one is better off with an old Univox 335-copy or one of the new Ibby Artcores.

[Dave W]

I think that all in all, one is better off with an old Univox 335-copy or one of the new Ibby Artcores.

FWIW, neither sounds like a Coronado. Aren't they both semi-hollow anyway? For better or worse, the Coronado is a full hollowbody thinline.

It's a hell of a handsome design. I even like it in Antigua fin ...... Who's to blame, Roger Roßmeissl ?

Yes.

I've had two IIs and could never get them to sound good in a live situation.  I love the look, but the sound is weak.

The sound of my II was so-so. The neck dive and neck profile were bigger objections.

But I saw Jack Lawrence playing his Coro I in the Greenhornes several times over the years and he always got a good sound live. None of the phase cancellation of the II.

[ilan]

There is also a white Coro II on eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1968-Fender-Coronado-Bass-II-4-String-Electric-Bass-Guitar-with-Case-/290675649861?pt=Guitar&hash=item43ad9e6d45#ht_758wt_1163

[Pilgrim]

FWIW, neither sounds like a Coronado. Aren't they both semi-hollow anyway? For better or worse, the Coronado is a full hollowbody thinline.

The Artcores are indeed semi-hollow, but the Univox 335-copy / Coily series basses are full hollowbodies.  I'm sure that due to differences in the pickups they don't sound like a Coronado, but from what I've heard that may be a feature, not a bug.  I do know there are a fair number of them in active use by gigging bassists, prices have gone up a fair amount in the last few years, but they are a heckuva lot expensive than Coronados...probably because anything that's old and says Fender on it brings silly money.

Mine:

[ilan]

The Oly Coro sold for $1,200.

[Pilgrim]

And you can pick up equally good or better hollowbodies from the same era for $300+. But they don't say Fender on the headstock.

[4005]

I Love mine but I won't pay that much for one,

[eb2]

They aren't crap.  They just aren't that cool. Or they are so uncool that they barely are.  I like them.  If they were still $150 I would buy one as that is what they are worth to me.  Which is to say they are worth about as much as a 60s EB-0, so they still are the same.

[drbassman]

Just for collector's sake, I'd pay $750 for one tops, but no more.  I  don't miss my two.

[uwe]

A lot of semis are overrated if you ask me. This here, the Ric 4005 (I have one), many Framus basses, the Guild ones, the EB-2, not waving the Gibson flag in this enemy forum, but the Gibson LP Signature is one big exception  and that probably came about by coincidence. Add the EB-650 to that list, but that is another era of course.