*Help Identify Fender Guitar-Capistrano Model

[Warrior13]

Hi,
Anyone know anything about this guitar? I just inherited it from my father
and was interested in its history, etc. There is no model number on the
instrument. But the word Capistrano is on the peghead.
Thanks much.
Steve

[Ken Hayden]

Check the Fender website. They might have info there.

Ken

Oh yeah it's www.fender.com, I think.

[tim gueguen]

Ken Hayden <opti...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000308150245...@nso-fv.aol.com...

> Check the Fender website. They might have info there.

Fraid not. The Fender website is limited to currently available product.

tim gueguen 101867

[Ken Schuller]

>From: "tim gueguen" ad...@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca
>Date: 03/08/2000 4:23 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <ZpAx4.3330$ysd1.2...@tomcat.sk.sympatico.ca>

Not really- I just looked up the page on my Telecaster Plus, and they haven't
made those since '98.

A search for "Capistrano" turned up nothing, though.

--

Stevie Ken Schuller

Slack Jawed PRS Toady and Tele Devotee

"Jimmy Page sold a lot of Les Pauls playing a Tele." --Dan Stanley, on
rec.music.makers.guitar

[Allan Flippin]

Can't find it in the Vintage Guitar Price Guide either, and it
has most of the weird old stuff. Any hints you can give might help...
it is Telecaster-like? Strat-like? or hollow-body? I'm curious too.

Allan

[Ken Hayden]

Hmm .. that's were I found info on my 1985 Jap Strat. But then they still make
Strats.

[Warrior13]

Thanks for all the suggestions, but so far have found nothing on the Fender
site. The guitar is an acoustic guitar, 6 string, 3 piece rosewood back and
sides. Solid spruce top. The peghead is shaped like the Strat.
Thanks again for any info.
Steve
"Allan Flippin" <ajf...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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[Ron Thompson]

Warrior13 wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions, but so far have found nothing on the Fender
> site. The guitar is an acoustic guitar, 6 string, 3 piece rosewood back and
> sides. Solid spruce top. The peghead is shaped like the Strat.
> Thanks again for any info.

It may come as a shock to some, but I have accumulated quite a bit of reading
material regarding That Company over the last year or so. I haven't found
any mention of them guys even owning a company that made anything even
remotely close to being called Capistrano. The website won't help you at all.
I think that if Dick Smith, Bacon & Day, Forrest, and Bill Carson don't have
anything to say about it, then it didn't exist as a Fender.
It probably was a knock off of some of the early acoustics.
--
rct

The opinions above are mine and mine alone.

[Joe McNamara]

Around the late 80s, early 90s Fender imported a series of acoustics and
acoustic electrics, some with overgrown "000" body styles, all with a 6-per
side headstock. IIRC, the "Capistrano" was one of these.
Joe McNamara

[Donald Put]

Joe McNamara wrote:

> IIRC, the "Capistrano" was one of these.

I find this hard to swallow.

Cheers,
--
Don
Idyllwild Brewing Company (home-brewed beer and tube guitar amps)

[David Covell]

Donald Put wrote in message <38C97AD7...@pe.net>...

>Joe McNamara wrote:
>
>> IIRC, the "Capistrano" was one of these.
>
>I find this hard to swallow.
>

Oooh, that's fowl!

Alright, let's choke this one down before someone says something about
african swallows or coconuts.

[Warrior13]

Oh well, thanks to everyone for the info. Maybe I will never know the truth,
but it sure is a nice sounding instrument.
Steve
"Donald Put" <da...@pe.net> wrote in message news:38C97AD7...@pe.net...

> Joe McNamara wrote:
>
> > IIRC, the "Capistrano" was one of these.
>
> I find this hard to swallow.
>

[Warrior13]

Thanks for the info Southpaw.
"Southpaw" <za...@weezle.com> wrote in message
news:ff4kcss1icavbkf51...@4ax.com...

> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:42:11 GMT, "Warrior13" <coo...@usa.net> wrote:
>
> >Oh well, thanks to everyone for the info. Maybe I will never know the
truth,
> >but it sure is a nice sounding instrument.
>

> Yo Warrior, have a look around for the Fender Newporter. A friend has
> one (in pieces). Dreadnought style acoustic, with a strat-type
> bolt-on neck. Very similar to the Capistrano

[Twang]

Donald Put <da...@pe.net> wrote in message news:38C97AD7...@pe.net...
> Joe McNamara wrote:
>
> > IIRC, the "Capistrano" was one of these.
>
> I find this hard to swallow.

Yes, but you'll come back around.
Twang!

[donthebe...@yahoo.com]

On Wednesday, March 8, 2000 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Warrior13 wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone know anything about this guitar? I just inherited it from my father
> and was interested in its history, etc. There is no model number on the
> instrument. But the word Capistrano is on the peghead.
> Thanks much.
> Steve

This guy is playing a Fender Capistrano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOs_YWdH4xo