Fender Coronado

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The Fender Coronado can be classified as a double-cutaway hollow-body electric guitar. Two models were produced from 1966 through 1967. The Fender Coronado I was the original single pickup design and the Coronado II, has an added bridge pickup. All Coronados were made in the USA. This is one of the few, true hollow-body electrics as it does not have solid wood blocking under the top. The tops are laminated and slightly arched with two generous, routed and bound "f" holes in the top. The various colors and woods are finished with no-longer-available, high-gloss nitro-cellulose lacquer.

The features on the Coronado I consist of one neck pickup, one volume and one tone control. The Coronado II has two pickups--neck and bridge positions--two volume and two tone controls, as well as a three-position selector switch. The pickups are passive. The body front, sides and back are constructed of laminated, domestic Beechwood and have a relatively thin, "C" shaped maple neck topped with a fingerboard of Indian rosewood.

The standard pickups are DeArmonds and the bridges are free-floating, non anchored, 'tune-o-matic' style, with a suspended tailpiece. The tuners are labeled Fender. The Coronados all came in cases made by the Victoria Luggage Co.