You can now find out if the Coronets, Wilshires and Crestwoods are any good for tedious blues noodling:
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Maybe we need a separate Epiphone thrad?
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:01 pm
by Doog
Bacchus wrote:I know you all love them, but Coronets and Wilshires are some of the worst looking guitars. They look like the guitar equivalent of roadkill.
Lole, park me here too.
I do love the headstock plate thang on these new ones though.. although I realise they are probably period rather than new?
Those massive ugly scratchplates just remind me of a pinned-open dissected frog or something, Rorschach af
Either way, fuggers.
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:24 pm
by Nick
Doog wrote:Those massive ugly scratchplates just remind me of a pinned-open dissected frog or something, Rorschach af
Either way, fuggers.
Agreed.
Wish they would've went with any other style
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:57 pm
by kim
Agree on the scratchplate, headstock on the current ones looks sweet though.
Hmm the bigsby one.. Flip lefty, sell righty bigsby and fit lefty bigsby.
Well it's not a bigsby but... Ehhh...
I've been looking at bigsby B5 with the jazzmaster mounting plate.. Pricey business but I dig it... As they make lefties.
Yeah Fender, lefty trems other than strat trems, look at that!
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 4:03 pm
by sunshiner
Coronets, Wilshires and Olympics of all generations that were made in Kalamazoo are visually the best guitar designs among all the set neck guitars and the shapes of the pickguards are some of the best in my personal opinion, while Crestwoods with batwing headstock and binding on the headstock are some of the fugliest guitars ever.
The symmetrical pickguard especially on the post 1964 Coronets is by far my favourite shape of all
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:16 pm
by NickS
Doog wrote:Those massive ugly scratchplates just remind me of a pinned-open dissected frog or something, Rorschach af
I was thinking more:
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:29 pm
by Doog
nb: I do go to a lot of spooky museums
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:37 pm
by Bacchus
I feel like flying squirrels should have their balls somewhere else somehow.
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:51 pm
by plopswagon
NickS wrote:
Doog wrote:Those massive ugly scratchplates just remind me of a pinned-open dissected frog or something, Rorschach af
I was thinking more:
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:00 pm
by benecol
See, I love the Coronets (etc.) and think they're brilliant. And I'm equally relieved and depressed that it's a dull-as-fuck Medium-C neck, because if they'd done something brave (but divisive) like sticking a fat neck on there, I'd have bought one.
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:13 pm
by Noirie.
That’s pretty sweet for £500.
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:16 pm
by NickS
Bacchus wrote:I feel like flying squirrels should have their balls somewhere else somehow.
Ha! It's not a flying squirrel, it's a sugar glider, a marsupial.
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:30 pm
by NickD
benecol wrote:See, I love the Coronets (etc.) and think they're brilliant. And I'm equally relieved and depressed that it's a dull-as-fuck Medium-C neck, because if they'd done something brave (but divisive) like sticking a fat neck on there, I'd have bought one.
Exactly. I get the feeling most people don’t like a fat neck though.
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:56 am
by sunshiner
I didn't know that some of the early 60s Coronets still had a New York pickup
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:29 am
by gusman2x
I don't mind chunky necks, but I just can't get on with fat ones. Most SGs I've played have had fat necks, and it just doesn't feel right to me. Especially on slender guitars. These do look awesome though.
