Talk:Fender Starcaster
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Just picked mine up, after having looked for one for years - from Australia to the US to the UK, finally picking it up in Italy. The tone of this thing is amazing very woody and "big" despite the 3 point neck. Mine has the master volume control, giving it 5 controls all in all, a somewhat different model than the one pictured here. Paul Weber, San Pietro, Swittzerland
Paul, I'm not sure if the photographed "Starcaster" is a real one, Fender logo is in a totally different position to the factory placement and the absence of the master volume control make me think that it is a copy. There have been a few copy bodies for sale recently on eBay....cheers
Alright, I have the version of this ONLY sold at Sam's Club. It's the Black version with the dark Rosewood neck. And let me tell you this, I have many, MANY guitars (9 over $1000.00) and I bought this as a project as I will soon be building them myself. After I got this little Jewel home, I changed the factory strings to some nice fender strings, blocked the bridge, adjusted the truss rod, and CHANGED the tuning Keys... WOW!!! This thing, agreed to by ALL of guitar buds, sounds as good OR better than 7 out my 9 ulta dollared guitars. Don't forget... this is a Genuine Fender, and sounds 10x better than ANY Telecaster on the market ( I do of course speak ONLY for the Sam's Club version of this guitar and not the sunburst or acoustic versions)!!! In my 21 years of playing guitar, this little gem is by far THE BEST DEAL I have EVER gotten in my dealings with guitars!!!
9.5/10 ALL DAY LONG !!!!
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[edit] Stratocaster Imitatation
I have seen a cheaper and lower quality version of the Stratocaster guitar that goes by the name Starcaster, there is no seperate link or seperate article and I am suggesting that there be one.
Yes, that's the one I just bought at Target, my first electric. I didn't know about the confusing nomenclature until now. Very strange. --josta59
70.142.43.50 00:39, 27 June 2007 (UTC)The Starcaster that Fender is currently making is not at all like the older guitars. The ones produced now that you can find in department stores, some music stores, toys r us, and on ebay where they are being passed off as Strats by unethical sellers are... Im sorry but pretty much the bottom of the line of Fender products. Even a lower quality than the plywood body made in China Squier's.
[edit] "Starcaster® by Fender®"
The first "Starcaster® by Fender®" page archived from Fender.com at archive.org was in November 2006 and the last June 2007. There was a pointy-headed Starcaster electric as well as the Stratocaster copy, and the range included acoustics and drums. I've not been able to track down a picture of the pointy guitar on the archived http://www.fender.com/starcaster/starcaster.php pages, but if you're quick you'll find one at overstock.com. The pointy headstock was very like the old Swinger/Arrow, but the blue metallic example I saw at Costco (UK) had the scratchplate screws overtightened until the (mirror finish) scratchplate cracked.
It looks as though that sub-Squier range has now been withdrawn. The archived page for one of the Strat Packs says:
"Starcaster® Strat® Pack Three-Tone Sunburst with Rosewood Neck 0283003"
"This Starcaster by Fender Pack delivers a hot-sounding, hot-looking 3-Color Sunburst Stratocaster® electric guitar, paired with a compact but still mighty Squier® SP-10 guitar amplifier."
"The guitar features a maple neck with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, three single-coil pickups with 5-way switching, a synchronous tremolo bridge, die-cast tuners, chrome hardware and a three-ply white pickguard. Other accessories included are a 10’ cable, digital tuner, gigbag, Hal Leonard instructional DVD, guitar strap, pick sampler, set of replacement strings and a setup/adjustment sheet."
"Available exclusively at Best Buy locations."
- Black says "Available exclusively at Target stores""
- Black Metallic says "Available exclusively at Sam's Club locations."
- Black Cherry Burst Flame Maple Top says "Available exclusively at Costco locations." - NickS 22:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Languedoc Guitars
This may or may not be of interest, but Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio played a hollow-body guitar custom-built by luthier Paul Languedoc which was partially based on the starcaster design. Languedoc built three over the course of Phish's career, then started Languedoc Guitars and manufactured a number of replicas of the Trey guitar.
Check out the webpage: http://www.languedocguitars.com/gallery/gallery2_thumbs
I don't know if it's relevant to the page, but it's pretty interesting that he's sold out his whole first run of guitars (all priced ridiculously at $10,000) based on the popularity of Phish. When it comes down to it, it's still just a basic (albeit solidly built) hollow-body. I remember some hardcore Phish fans would get luthiers to custom make them imitation Trey guitars, using the same wood, hardware, etc.
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