fender "starcaster"

[Ed00g]

hi uhh i just wanted to know if anyone has ever heard of this guitar. it is a Fender "Starcaster" not stratocaster, but starcaster. it looks exactly like an epiphone fat 210 the same layout for the pickups not like a regular fender stratocaster or a squier strat. although it is built by the Fender company. well please do tell if you have ever even heard of this guitar because i currently own one. it sounds great and all i just wanna know if anyone has any info about it.thanks

[Gorecki]

not familiar with it but search 'fender starcaster' on yahoo produces 507 hits for me. Looks like it's a pretty rare breed and maybe worth some bucks!

[Executioner606]

Is it like this ?

[swirlslave]

LOL, ive seen one just last week at the COSTCO ,hehehe

it was a stratocaster look alike, not like the one picture above, it was there for everybody to play with a little amp and was already missing a string on it.

seemed very low end model to me......

[Gorecki]

Actually it appears it was a limited production failure for Fender but in return has become a collectors item and I've seen them being sold for ~$2,500.00.

[truerussian558]

yeh and the better ones used wildwood, which was a technique that fender used, by injecting stains/toxins into the growing wood, that colored the wood and made it have different colored stripes

it was supposed to be they're delve into the jazzz market, but it never had much appeal

[psw]

Actually it was fender's answer to the Gibson ES335 and a great guitar with great features like individual vols & tones AND a master vol, just where you want it.

I like the selector switch placement too...I have a modified strat with a similar thing and ti's great.

I'd love one...

The only well known player to consistantly use one is the guitar player from the Meters (forgot his name)...basically a terrific guitar much overlooked

It's a keeper for sure

pete

oh, I think wildwood was only on the colorado...a dog if you ask me!

[truerussian558]

i remember seeing a wildwood starcaster in an electric guitar book though my memory is fuzy and it was on the same page as the colonado so the starcaster might have been just natural wood

[lovekraft]

The Starcaster was made from 1976 to 1980, at the height of the CBS era - AFAIK, all the Wildwood guitars were made between 1966 and 1970, so it's unlikely that there were any Wildwood Starcasters made, but knowing Fender/CBS, anything is possible ("Hey, look what I found behind those crates in the back of the warehouse!").

Bluebook on that thing (95%) is ca. $1500, so take good care of it - at the rate Fenders are going up, it could be worth enough to make a down-payment on a house in the next decade!

[psw]

CBS or not I still think it has merit

Now if only it had 3 pickups coil taps and a synchronised trem...(don't do that by the way!)

The modified headstock is a nice alternative to the strat and the (what were they thinking of) telecaster headstock. This also shows gibson firebird influences.

For a mix of classic fender (asymetric body, inline tuners, maple neck) and gibson (semi acoustic, humbuckers, individual pickup controls) I think it's unusually successful...perhaps I'm the only one...looks nice in black

I still wan't one!

[Strange Fruit]

The only well known player to consistantly use one is the guitar player from the Meters (forgot his name)...basically a terrific guitar much overlooked

Doesnt Thom Yorke or Jonny (greenwood???) from Radiohead play one as well?

Sorry, but my radiohead knowledge is terrible, so i may be wrong!

Matt

[truerussian558]

the starcaster is on my long to make list as of now, and it ahs been for a while (ever since i saw it)

so is there anyway to get a hold of some wildwood?