ok, I want a starcaster

[NLD09]

I still want a starcaster.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[mayfly]

Quick question:  Anyone out there actually have one of these?

 

[erogenousjones17]

No. They're like the Loch Ness Monster or Ogopogo: everyone's heard of them, but no one's actually seen one in person.  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[elfro89]

+1 for me.  I'm begging you guys at Warmoth... I will take almost ANY double cutaway chambered f-hole kind-of-archtop-ish sort of body shape at this point.  Please, please, please!  Pretty please with sugar on top. 

+1

I would LOVE the have a custom built jazzbox, that would kick ass.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Quick question:  Anyone out there actually have one of these?

I know one on a Danish forum and I've asked him to join in and show us some pictures.  :sign13:

 

[mayfly]

Quick question:  Anyone out there actually have one of these?

I know one on a Danish forum and I've asked him to join in and show us some pictures.  :sign13:

Better yet - can he do a tracing?

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Better yet - can he do a tracing?

Dunno - he's living in Ireland  :icon_jokercolor:













I'll ask him  :laughing7:

 

[cbrewer9]

:headbang1:

working on it as you read... more progress later.

 

[kboman]

:headbang1:

 

[SustainerPlayer]

Nice entrance!  :icon_thumright:

Welcome aboard!  :headbang:

 

[cbrewer9]

If anyone's interested, here are the drawings to scale I drew up after many tracings of every picture I could find of a Starcaster.

http://lonelyhuntermusic.com/starcasterheadstock.pdf
http://lonelyhuntermusic.com/starcaster.pdf

Just give me a little credit after your masterpieces are finished  :laughing7:

 

[Mor Paul]

I think I've seen that headstock image on Offsetguitars.com. Are you a member there?

 

[NLD09]

Thanks for joining, dude. You should start up a build thread and put the rest of the pictures up.  :headbang:

 

[mayfly]

If anyone's interested, here are the drawings to scale I drew up after many tracings of every picture I could find of a Starcaster.

http://lonelyhuntermusic.com/starcasterheadstock.pdf
http://lonelyhuntermusic.com/starcaster.pdf

Just give me a little credit after your masterpieces are finished  :laughing7:

This is very very cool.  I am inspired.

Greg - are you up for the next thing?

 

[bbl4ck]

Here is a sweet Starcaster that is currently available. 
Most of the Starcasters that I see for sale are burst.  So, I was happy to see this natural. 
Very sweet...

Thanks for joining, dude. You should start up a build thread and put the rest of the pictures up.  :headbang:

Without a doubt, you need to start a thread for this build.  There are a lot of folks on this forum that would love to follow your progress. 
Oh yea, welcome to the forum :icon_thumright:

 

 

 

[swarfrat]

I was going to pile on mostly in jest about how a starcaster would be such a good idea. But looking at that body some more it's ugly. A slightly more symmetric hollowbody would be a cool idea. Maybe a 336 or something.

 

[Cagey]

I don't know that I'd go so far as to call them "ugly"; they're probably an acquired taste. They certainly don't reach out and grab you like some designs do. I could see Warmoth selling 5 or 6 of them if they made them, but it would probably end there. I certainly wouldn't buy one. Fender couldn't sell them, which says a lot. Of course, back when they were making them was that magical CBS-owned period where they had a tough time selling anything because their quality and desirability had dropped too far to be ignored. Still, even after Fender bounced back from near-death, they didn't resuscitate the design. It's buried as a footnote in the history of guitars, and even the vintage market isn't interested in them.

 

[AutoBat]

It's still very ugly

 

[mayfly]

I don't know that I'd go so far as to call them "ugly"; they're probably an acquired taste. They certainly don't reach out and grab you like some designs do. I could see Warmoth selling 5 or 6 of them if they made them, but it would probably end there. I certainly wouldn't buy one. Fender couldn't sell them, which says a lot. Of course, back when they were making them was that magical CBS-owned period where they had a tough time selling anything because their quality and desirability had dropped too far to be ignored. Still, even after Fender bounced back from near-death, they didn't resuscitate the design. It's buried as a footnote in the history of guitars, and even the vintage market isn't interested in them.

you're really helping my case there buddy  ccasion14:

 

[stubhead]

even the vintage market isn't interested in them.

which is why they're going for 3 - 4 grand? Ever since Jimmie Vaughan started up with an antigua one... I was the one who weighed in early, having actually played a genuine one way back somewhere. They sucked, but it was clearly because they were designed by a corporate board who didn't think about things like prototyping, research etc - they just morphed a 335 and a strat and took the midpoint. IIRC, it was dead-sounding, like the center block wasn't well-though out in terms of what it was for... (Which BTW, suites Jimmie Vaughan's scratchy, dry style perfectly - same reason David Lindley liked the Valco, National plastic guitars).

I would bet Gibson had to do some goofs before they hit upon the "right" 335, and even there, the custom guys who tap their wood are building semi-hollows that sing. When Warmoth does theirs, it will be more of a weight-relieved shape than a hollow one with center block.