New 2013 Guild Starfire Bass Reissue

[rapturebass]

while they're at it, Starcaster RIs and a Starcaster bass maybe?

We can dream can't we?

 

[saltymonkey]

while they're at it, Starcaster RIs and a Starcaster bass maybe?

We can dream can't we?

Fano Starcaster Bass. He makes a guitar as well.

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[JoeWPgh]

I am not surprised Fender went with the bridge pup. EVERYBODY like those, but there's a much smaller market for a mudbucker, which is what those neck pups sounded like. That said, I could be interested in a mudbucker, especially on a Starfire.

 

[Avezzano]

it would be fun to see Fender reissueing a... Hagstrom!

Now there is a Coronado that won't feedback

if you use it with common sense it won't. Every single hollow instrument tends to feedback, but if you play it not in front of a full blasted amp in general it is way better!!! Otherwise jazz guitars would not exist at all!!!

Fano Starcaster Bass.

Beautiful!!! All the catalogue, I mean!!!

 

[Bongolation]

Wait.

Are you people saying you're up for dropping ~$1100 on a freaking Cor-Tek?

 

[T-34]

Oh no, we'll wait until it hits used market

(wait, somebody must buy it new first, I'm screwed!)

 

[Mungi]

it would be fun to see Fender reissueing a... Hagstrom!

They already did (hopefully). The bisonic, that is.

 

[RCCollins]

They already did (hopefully). The bisonic, that is.

From what we know, "they" turned the bi-sonic reproduction over to the Korean team. I'm not holding my breath for an accurate repro.

 

[Root 5]

Glad to see the Starfire. But I wish it had a neck pickup.

I also wish they'd reissue the M85 bass! Now THAT would be cool!

 

[main_sale]

+1 fo the M-85!

 

[bluesblaster]

Guild (pre-fender) never cared to do it as a reissue back in the 90's. I wouldnt hold my breath for fender to do it.

 

[smcd]

Jethro Tull probably used a 2 pickup version on " Stand Up". Check out the bass solo on "Boree".

I don't believe Glenn Cornick played a bass with darkstars on that, or any Tull record.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

Glen's favorite with Tull was a Gibson EB3. The bass he's pictured with on the cover of Benefit is an EB2D but he said that bass was the worst he's ever played and only used it on lip synched tv performances because it looked good. This is according to the Fly guitars site.

 

[SGD Lutherie]

the pick up is listed as a Bisonic but it sure looks like a Dark Star to me.....and I wonder how much it weighs

DarkStars were reproductions of Hagström Bi-Sonics. Guild didn't make the pickups. After Hagström discontinued them, guild switched to their own humbuckers.

 

[SGD Lutherie]

+1 fo the M-85!

Me too!

 

[SGD Lutherie]

Has anyone who has owned a bisonic measured the kOhm on it? I got four bisonic. One is broken, one measures around 6 kOhm, one around 14 and one is above 16. Huge difference there.

They are supposed to be about 6 k. The other ones might be wound the same, but use thinner gauge magnet wire.

 

[SGD Lutherie]

This is madness. Has anyone heard the bass in the demo? While it sounds nice, it does not remind me of the sound of the original Hagstrom bi-sonic or Fred Hammon's version either. What's the point of having such a cosmetically identical re-issue without engineering the pickup the same way? It's like saying the Epiphone EB0 has a great mudbucker sound based on it's looks.

It sounds like one to me. Thought I was expecting it to be brighter. depends on how the amp was set I guess.

 

[SturmUndDrang]

I might have got a little emotional because I'm really interested in this bass and am hoping it will live up to it's predecessor's legacy.

 

[JoeWPgh]

Weren't the Darkstars more like reproductions of the San Fran mods to the bi-sonics?

 

[SGD Lutherie]

News is trickling in from Namm...

Guild are calling these new electrics the Newark Street Collection

Newark Street, and Observer Highway, Hoboken, NJ.

Former home of Guild Guitars, and SGD Lutherie too.