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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:36 am
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In the 1990's Fender made some strats with "bowling ball" finishes. A shop in Boston had 6 of them & some were hideous but 2 of them were pretty cool. Does anyone knoe if they made P Basses with these finishes? I've only seen those 6 strats.


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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:08 pm
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I don't remember seeing any basses, but I know saw two telecasters that had that type of finish to them.

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Post subject: Re: bowling ball finish
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:50 pm
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I have never seen a Fender Bass factory finished like the Strat.

Based on Fender's color choice trends, don't look for it to happen any time soon [though I would like to see a FSR run of them].

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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:20 am
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Don't know if I'd buy one anyway. May have been a dud when originally issued so i doubt they will be re-relased. I had only seen Strats but I guess they did teles too.


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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:35 pm
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The Antigua finish was a dud when it was released and it is back now. Who knows what will be reintroduced in the next year or ten.

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Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 7:19 am
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The Antigua finish was a dud when it was released and it is back now. Who knows what will be reintroduced in the next year or ten.


Antigua was a step-child color! It was used first on the CORONADO hollow body instruments. I've always heard that Fender developed the dark around the edges finish to disguise body binding gap issues on some copies of the new hollow body model introduced in 1966. The dark color disguised gaps in the white binding when the binding itself was actually painted over.

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Normally binding isn't painted at all, as you can see here the binding is left alone:

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In order to make the color look legit they made it available on solid body Fenders a year or two later as a Custom Color upgrade offering. And people actually ordered it on purpose! The Antigua P-Bass pickguard has been a tough score until the recent reissue.

As wacky as it was, Antigua was still not the wackiest Coronado finish in my opinion. I think WILDWOOD was the most bizarre Fender finish ever. So far as I know there were no Wildwood solid body basses and I've never actually seen a wildwood Coronado bass but have seen a Coronado II 6 string in wildwood and it is something to behold for sure. For the wildwood finish living trees were actually injected with dye and they'd come back much later and cut them down after the dye had circulated via sap and water through the entire tree. No kidding. That is how it was done. I think they used several different shades of dyes. Wildwood looked like this:

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or sometimes this:

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or sometimes this:

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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:15 pm
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The Coronado series was another Roßmeisl creation. Roger has also developed the LTD and Montego and was the man behind the Tele Thinlines.


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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:20 pm
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BPGoalie wrote:
In the 1990's Fender made some strats with "bowling ball" finishes. A shop in Boston had 6 of them & some were hideous but 2 of them were pretty cool. Does anyone know if they made P Basses with these finishes? I've only seen those 6 strats.


These finishes were introduced in the early 1980's. I never saw a post-CBS Strat finished in those colours.


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Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:44 am
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Maybe it was 1980's when you get as old as I am you start to lose track of dates in te past.


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Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 6:52 am
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The Bowling Ball finishes were also known as "Marble". Fender launched that series in 1983.

The finishes were done by outside vendors and no two are alike. Production was limited to 225 Strats and just 75 Teles.

UPDATE: Fender did indeed post-CBS marble Strats. These Custom Shop prototypes differ slightly from the old originals with modern features such as two Texas Special singles in the neck & middle, a DiMarzio PAF humbucker in the bridge, Eric Clapton active electronics with mid boost bypass switch and a figured maple neck/fretboard with abalone dot inlays, 22 medium-jumbo frets and Sperzel locking tuners.

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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 4:07 am
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Post subject: Re: bowling ball finish
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:08 pm
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That's a great look on that Strat!

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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:42 pm
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As wacky as it was, Antigua was still not the wackiest Coronado finish in my opinion. I think WILDWOOD was the most bizarre Fender finish ever. So far as I know there were no Wildwood solid body basses and I've never actually seen a wildwood Coronado bass but have seen a Coronado II 6 string in wildwood and it is something to behold for sure. For the wildwood finish living trees were actually injected with dye and they'd come back much later and cut them down after the dye had circulated via sap and water through the entire tree. No kidding. That is how it was done. I think they used several different shades of dyes. Wildwood looked like this:



I have heard that explanation of how they did the Wildwood finishes since the 1960's but I don't believe that anybody injected trees to be cut down later.
It just doesn't make sense.
How do you inject dye into a living tree?
How could they get enough wood to do a run of instruments?
I think this was a load of crap the Fender put over on us. LOL
I think they were stained in the factory.


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Post subject: Re: bowling ball finish
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 5:47 pm
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That Strat looks cool with that finish. I'd like to see a P bass with a similar finish but I don't think they made them. Too bad!


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