Talk:Starcaster by Fender

this page is all wrong factually and woefully inadequate. (e.g. there are acoustic guitars named starcaster by fender as well.) it doesn't really meet notability standards either. this should be erased.

Oppose This page details a line of Fender products. How on Earth is that not notable? Granted, the page is not up to snuff. But that's not a reason to just scrap it altogether. Joe routt (talk) 06:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Aimed at?
Starcaster isn't aimed at students or beginners to learn it. This is a wrong information. Starcaster is really a good guitar that can be played by professionals and others alike. Starcaster is basically another brand of stratocaster aimed to sell for company profits. Its' basically saying would you get a GT or Ecoboost marketed by Ford, both are mustangs and both are higher performance. Difference is engine size. Would you drive AT or stick mustang? Its a same thing. Its' same with Starcaster and Stratocaster. Starcaster may not be as loud as as what you hear from Iron Maiden's stratocaster but it still a same thing with only 19-20 difference.

If Dave Mustaine is to play starcaster or Tom Morello, the value of starcaster would be same as Stratocaster. We have got to change the introduction of this paragraph. That is why, Fender doesn't market it anymore because its' not in company profit. They don't make it anymore because Starcaster is same as stratocaster. They made this brand to increase company profit margins, which it did.

Details hard to find
So, Fender has re-used the Starcaster name for a line of guitars sold through big box stores. I wonder if these are just Squier Strats rebranded.

In any case, why didn't they just use the Squier line? How/why are these different?

The ones I saw in a store (Hastings) yesterday didn't have the normal Strat head stock. (Neither was it like the old Starcaster.)

Fender doesn't seem to have any info about them on their site. The other brands page on the Fender site shows the new "Starcaster by Fender" logo. It links to http://www.fender.com/starcaster/, but that just redirects to the main Fender page.

FWIW, I think this is worth a Wikipedia article. After seeing them, this was one of the first places I went to find out more.

--Malirath (talk) 13:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Pups
BTW, they had both HSS and SSS models at Hastings yesterday. (Though it did seem like there were more HSS.) --Malirath (talk) 13:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

"...a humbucker in the bridge position, preventing static noises at the first, third, and fifth pickups."

That should be "positions on the pickup selector switch".

The bridge humbucker is only active in the first and second positions, though, right? The single-coil pups may be wired to provide humbucking in the fourth position, but that has nothing to do with the bridge pick-up itself.

But I'm thinking everything after "position" should be deleted: "...a humbucker in the bridge position." Although noise reduction is the reason they were created and the source of the name, a humbucker pup tends to be more desired for it's "fatter" or "warmer" tone. All of which is more than adequately covered by the linked humbucker article, should the reader want to learn more. --Malirath (talk) 18:05, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Website
It's still there. http://www.fender.com/starcaster/ -- Anti —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.198.214.105 (talk) 08:41, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That page has been gone for years, so no longer offers support. The problem is that the name has been re-repurposed to refer to the reissue Fender Starcaster model. Weeb Dingle (talk) 07:32, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

interesting, but needs work
There seems to be some level of "collectible" about the Starcasters, and I figure this will increase (slowly) over time. The article really needs to be better grounded to keep up with that.

I'm not a fanatic, but I do know that the "Series One" with pointy headstock started getting called the "Katana head" version a few years ago. This refers to the Fender Katana (later reissued in a Squier version), rather than the earlier (and relatively obscure) Fender Swinger as mentioned here. It's a cheap collectible, some more than others.

There is questionable writing throughout, with mixed bits of fannishness and vagueness — like referring to the standard "superstrat" pickup layout as "S-S-H" — that needs basic English editing as well as credible citations.

The recent addition to the lede,
 * As of April 2018 no products were being marketed under this brand.

Is well-intended but inept: unless there is a clear date at which the line might be called officially "ended" — and a credible source to support that date — it appears to be saying "we're waiting for Fender to re-start the line" and would need to be kept updated, month by month, forever. I'm thinking how to rewrite it, but if anyone deletes it outright, great. Weeb Dingle (talk) 07:51, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * FWIW, I've heard that the S1 were built by Cort Indonesia and thus contemporaneous with some of the better Squiers. Citations will be provided if I can find them. Weeb Dingle (talk) 08:24, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Squier parts
The Starcaster electric guitars used the same hardware and electrics as Squier Affinity guitars. Indeed, some guitars included bridges and pickups shared with the more expensive Squier Standard Series guitars. Arsendiklik (talk) 16:10, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Serial Numbers
The Starcaster electric guitars were built by AXL (serial numbers with the CXS prefix) and by Samick (where the serial numbers were prefixed CSS). Arsendiklik (talk) 16:15, 11 April 2023 (UTC)