Fender Toronado Electric Guitar (Rosewood, Black, with Gig Bag)

One-piece maple neck with medium jumbo frets. Popular after-market modifications factory installed. 3-ply pickguards. Vintage style hardware.

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33 People rated this product : * * * * * * * * * * 8 out of 10

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* * * * * * * * * * 3 out of 10

Feature:
The location of the bridge in relation to the nut is terrible. It is so far out of sorts that I cannot tighten the saddles enough to get the intonation adjusted properly! This is a huge error, and as a result, the guitar is unplayable!

Quality:
see FEATURES

Support:
can't get a reply from them

Submitted: 5/10/2004

* * * * * * * * * * 9 out of 10

"Best guitar in it's class... worst pickups ever."

Feature:
I don't know what else you could ask for? Control over each pickup is real nice, and the knobs and switches are all out of your way (unlike strat). If you keep the pickups, the two screws on one side are a nice touch too allowing you to place the pickup any way you like, and with the individual screws for each string it's pretty easy to dial in something you like. It is very comfortable.

Quality:
When i romoved the back electronics cover a little piece of paint chipped off. And one of the tunning knobs is loose and anoying. I'm replacing that tunner, but will probably end up replacing them all. I have a mexican tele and did't have this problem.

Value:
Awesome value. It's really a one of a kind. I like how the Mexican looks a bit cooler than the American as well... so there is not that more expensive model you wish you had.

Desirability:
Way cooler looking then the jaguare and jazzmaster. The cream and the black with tortoise pickguards are classics and the red with black pickguard it pretty tight... the ones with with the pearl guard may be a bit too flashy.

Sound:
The guitar sounds good and loud not pluged in and gives good natural sustain. I thought the pickups sounded pretty good clean, but pretty much like crap distorted. I play post punk and I like vintage overdriven and somewhat distorted sounds... these atomic pickups are real muddy and buzzy distorted... maybe zz top is the only thing I can compare the buzz to... but unnatural and unclear. The guitar's features, looks, and feel were just too cool to pass it up because of this. I replaced the bridge pick-up with a seymour duncan seth lover original humbucker... sounded amazing... but problem there... in the original humbucker tradition, that pickup is not wax potted. I found out later that that can lead to crazy bad microphonic feedback (the squeal... not the good stuff), and mine did at live volumes. So I wax potted the pickup and solved that problem. Sounds awesome. Replace the pickups! I still gave it an 8 for sound because pickups are eaisily swaped and that big wood body is really what gives it a good sound... i would probably have prefered ash or alder though.

Support:
Don't know.

Overall:
We'll see when I record with it how it will compare to my tele with a seymour duncan lil 59 bridge. Right now the toronado is my main guitar, and I expect to use it live for a long time. If it somehow went away I would eventually replace it.

Submitted: 5/4/2004

Style of Music: Rock

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About This Product!
Description
The new Fender Toronado features an off-set waist body with rounded, comfortable corners. Two Fender special design "Atomic-Humbuckers" with individual volume and tone controls allow you to "dial-in" a variety of explosive tonal combinations. Deluxe Fender gig bag included.

Technical Info

Body: Alder (Ash Veneered Top on Brown Sunburst)

Color: Black

Neck: Maple

Fingerboard: Rosewood 9.5 in. Radius/241mm

Scale Length: 24 3/4"

No. of Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo

Width @ Nut: 1.6875" (43 mm)

Machine Heads: Vintage Style

Pickups: 2 Atomic Humbuckers (Neck, Bridge)

Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle Switch

Controls: 2 Volume Controls (Neck, Bridge), 2 Tone Controls (Neck, Bridge)

Pickguard: Brown Shell

Bridge: String-thru-body Hard-tail Bridge

Unique Features: Radical New Design

Strings: Fender Super Bullet 3250L's (.009 to .042)

Accessories: Deluxe Gig Bag
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