Pics of the Jerker Starcaster!!! EXTREEEME GUITAR PR0N.

[nealescott]

they don't make em like that any more!

[the older brother]

The previous owner must like heavy strings.  I think they're 12's, but I'm not sure.  I like 10's with plain G. 

That is a good thing! I use nickel .12's on my other offsets.

[the older brother]

Thanks Guys and Gals!

I think it looks better than i though! I'll be afraid of playing it....

If you're interested in how much $$ I payed for the guitar:

$3300 (no more guitars this side of xmas...) I think that is a quite good price - they don't show up that often and when they do - people ask way too much for them.
That with the low dollar compared to the Swedish Krona made it an easy decision (as said - on this side of the pond they cost the double for way more beaten up ones).
I saw the DCFC vid from their rehearsal on YouTube where they had a burst Starcaster that looked really really great - I guess it was that what made me pull the trigger (and the price of course).

I'm surprised there isn't a market for RI's - as there are a buch of "iconic" bands like Radiohead and DCFC playing those - along with bigger acts like the Killers - I mean uglyuglyugly J5 tele have a market, but not these, c'mon.....

[B]

Man, congrats on a SIIIIIIICK guitar.         

Nolan looks like a mob boss.

[RumorsOFsurF]

Man, congrats on a SIIIIIIICK guitar.         

Nolan looks like a mob boss.

Hey youse guys....Quit makin' fun o me!

[zhivago]

yeah, quit makin' fun of him....or you'll be sleeping with the fish!

[RumorsOFsurF]

I'll make you an offer you can't refuse? 

[1946dodge]

That is a beautiful guitar. Damn it is.

[djetz]

I'm surprised there isn't a market for RI's - as there are a buch of "iconic" bands like Radiohead and DCFC playing those - along with bigger acts like the Killers - I mean uglyuglyugly J5 tele have a market, but not these, c'mon.....

Yes, but it's been said before: if Fender want to make a "custom" Tele or Strat, or even a Jazzmaster, they can just add a few options to the basic model. They already make Teles, Strats, and Jazzmasters. They don't make Starcasters, and haven't since the 70s. They'd have to re-make the entire thing from scratch - I seriously doubt they'd have stored any of the tooling and so on, and I wouldn't be surprised if they'd lost the blueprints, too. 

There would be a lot of expense in making a semi-solid guitar, even with the bolt on neck. They'd have to pay for the design to be reproduced or recreated, they'd have to tool up for making an archtop semi-solid, they'd have to get the unique hardware, like the bridge, recreated... it would be a big expense before they even made the prototype. With their regular guitars, the most they have to do is re-route an existing design for different hardware, and usually they don't even have to do that.

Even if Fender farmed out the Starcaster to Gretsch (who Fender own, of course) and got the Chinese factories that make those nice cheap Gretsch Electromatics to make a "Starcaster" - they'd still have to spend some money on development. Electromatics are full-follow and have set necks, the Starcaster is semi-solid and has a bolt neck. Quite a different thing to build. And they'd still end up with those "re-issue" WRHPs that are a completely different design and sound nothing like the originals.

If they felt there was enough demand, they might go through the Chinese Gretsch factory, but chances are they'd change enough of the design that all you'd end up with is something that was sort of like a Starcaster. Most people who'd know enough to want a Starcaster would also know enough to want real WRHPs and wouldn't be satisfied with the fakes.

The Tele Thinlines are quite a different thing to the Starcaster design, much easier to build, and the demand is much higher - to the point where plenty of people who don't realise there is a huge difference between genuine WRHPs and the modern fakes will buy them.

Since the original Starcaster was an expensive failure from Fender's point of view, I really don't see them reviving the concept.

But be happy, Jerker; you have a real one coming to you soon. 

[the older brother]

But be happy, Jerker; you have a real one coming to you soon.

Yeah. The demand for Starcasters are almost null in the house of Cavallie...