Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

rickenmetal wrote:
Then there's this very rare newer one, which actually has the so-called German carve:
http://www.muzikus.cz/pro-muzikanty-tes ... unor~2004/
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More likely a German lamination, or a German rout. (Nobody carves a guitar--a description for work done by hand--and mass-produces it at an affordable price.)

I saw the Association in--get ready--1980, at--ready again--Disneyland...long past their prime, but still pluggin' at it. They had their chops down, but the power was missing. There were seven of them, and they sang, "I'm a comer and a goer and a Seven Man Band." Sounded odd, for some reason...

Anyways, my point was that since that 1963 guitar predates the Coronado series (and has some Fender features such as the headstock, bolt-on neck, and also a kind of Jaguar-ish pickguard not present on the Coronados), that Roger Rossmeisl might have seen one of those, which in turn could have influenced the design of the Coronado.

It could well be the other way around, depending on when the plans for the Coronado were drawn, prototypes, spying, etc., although it kind of seems less likely.

No internet back then...Jolana is, what, Czech? Information simply did not disseminate that rapidly in the early-'60s (in fact, pre-1994 or so!). If the Jolana had a really distinctive and revolutionary feature--something that really stood out above the pack--and Fender or Rossmeisl used this feature, post '63, I'd have to agree to a possibility. But what I'm seeing there is just another Eastern European 335 wannabee with the addition of those weird pushbuttons that so many European and Japanese makers seemed to favor back then. If there's any cross=pollination going on, I'd have to say Framus, not Fender and Rossmeisl.

Spying between Jolana and Fender? Ludicrous.

Yes, the spying is ludicrous, more or less, the chances are very slim.

Jolana did import into the UK, and I would not be surprised if they were present at international trade shows. Even without the trade shows, professionals might be able to somehow obtain a catalog. Of course, there is also the possibility of them not knowing about each other's designs, although I would say Jolana did take some design ideas from Fender, perhaps from Framus as well.

This also freaks me out, it almost looks like Jolana took this design and made it double-cutaway:
http://www.rickresource.com/rrp/theroger.html