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Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:50 am
by GreenKnee
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:25 am
by HNB
$1200 Made in Indonesia? I really want one though.....
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:27 am
by Ceylon
It's cool to see any kind of love for the model from both Fender and artists but it also doesn't have anything that makes me like Starcasters except for the body shape.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:30 am
by GreenKnee
HNB wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:25 am
Made in Indonesia
Wow, I missed that. That's a high price point for sure
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:32 am
by sal paradise
Bloody Epiphone & their overpriced Chinese guitars.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:38 am
by JSett
This is nothing more than a Classic Vibe with 1/4 of the electronics and a roasted maple neck. For 1k
Hard pass.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:51 am
by Snake Hips
Where do we go from here?
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:03 am
by alexpigment
One thing I really dislike on guitars are large uninterrupted areas of solid color (this also applies to other things like cars). It needs a pickguard, another pickup, or something else to feel visually balanced for me.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:26 am
by Pacafeliz
Nope
Thanks.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:21 am
by Wucan
HNB wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:25 am
$1200 Made in Indonesia? I really want one though.....
Plenty of OEMs have been selling Indo guitars for more. Fender is strange though, the guitar is probably built in the same factory as their Squiers. It's also more expensive than many MIM Fenders. Not sure why its not being built from across the border, reminds me of those carved top Teles that were for some reason built in China despite the Fender branding.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:37 am
by alexpigment
Wucan wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:21 am
Not sure why it’s not being built from across the border, reminds me of those carved top Teles that were for some reason built in China despite the Fender branding.
It’s probably just a simple matter of the MIM factory not making any Starcasters and therefore doesn’t have the existing infrastructure the make a one-off model.
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:48 am
by Wucan
alexpigment wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:37 am
Wucan wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:21 am
Not sure why it’s not being built from across the border, reminds me of those carved top Teles that were for some reason built in China despite the Fender branding.
It’s probably just a simple matter of the MIM factory not making any Starcasters and therefore doesn’t have the existing infrastructure the make a one-off model.
That was one of my thoughts but didn't want to gamble on the Mexican factory never building the body type lol
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:57 am
by panoramic
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:19 am
by mekhem
I believe that the mexico plant produced the Modern Player Starcaster?
Mexico plant may not have had the capacity and/or would have pushed the price up.
I have no reason to - but this does appeal to me. If i can actually play one i might pick one up
Re: Fender Tom Delonge Starcaster
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:52 am
by Ceylon
mekhem wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:19 am
I believe that the mexico plant produced the Modern Player Starcaster?
Mexico plant may not have had the capacity and/or would have pushed the price up.
I have no reason to - but this does appeal to me. If i can actually play one i might pick one up
Wasn't all Modern Players made in China?
