2011 Cole Clark Fat Lady FL2AC

1 December 2024

This was bought from a guy in Brisbane Australia in late October 2024. I had recently bought another Fat Lady and had been pleasantly surprised by how good it was, despite being pretty ugly as most Cole Clarks are. But this one was highly unusual being all black so that the ugly timbers were covered up.

Prior to 2014, the letter ‘A‘ for active was used instead of ‘E’ for electric in the model numbers. So this model number decodes as Fat Lady (Dreadnought body shape) model 2 with a pickup and a cutaway. Model 1 is the most basic model, model 2 is the medium range and model 3 is more fancy with rather garish paua shell inlays and so on.

Fatlady fingerboard
Block position markers

Fatlady binding

The seller told me that he had bought it brand new, but there were a few mysteries surrounding this guitar. For one thing the shop told him they had done a fret dress. Not sure why you'd do that with a new guitar. Also the seller told me that when he contacted Cole Clark to find out more about it they had told him that this serial number should have been sunburst, not black.

Unfortunately this one has the older two way pickup system rather than the more advanced three ways.

Fatlady controls
Two way pickup system to blend the piezo (bridge) with the face sensor