Fender Coronado reissue converted to Starfire...

[Curtis Novak]

This was a pretty fun project... Someone bought a new Coronado bass and had me fit it with 2 starfire /bisonic pickups. Turned out awesome.
You can see some pics here

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.772247689470319.1073741837.273555919339501&type=3

curtis

 

[Default]

Wow! Not your usual tractor bass, is it?

 

[twocorgis]

Wow, that is very cool Curtis! I still want to do a tractor build somewhere along the way.

 

[AcornHouse]

OK, for us non-bassies, please enlighten us. "Tractor" bass?

 

[gilded]

Berry Oakley, bassist for the Allman Brothers, used a Guild SF II bass with Bisonics pickups. He replaced the SF II in '69, with a '66 Fender Jazz bass. Later, he had one of the Bisonic pickups taken out of the Guild and installed in the bridge position of his Jazz bass. I guess the combination was so Low, so Cool, so Stump-pullin' Good that they started calling the Bass, 'Tractor'!


That's all I know on a Wed. morning.....HH

 

[Walter Broes]

Nice Curtis! I might have missed the continuation of that thread, but what happened to that vintage Starfire bass you bought a while ago?