The Starcaster guitar is back. Fender reintroduces the Starcaster (one of the most fabled and oft-requested instruments in Fender history) as the newest addition to the popular Modern Player series.
Virtually fabled since its original mid-to-late ’70s tenure, the seldom-seen Starcaster occupies a special place in Fender history as their one and only offset-waist semi-hollow electric guitar. The Fender Starcaster guitar’s thin semi-hollow offset body has a bound maple top and back, with stylish bound f holes. Its “C”-shaped maple neck has a 9.5”-radius maple fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets, black-dot inlays and the distinctively curvaceous Starcaster headstock.
The Fender Modern Player Starcaster – prized decades after it’s launch in the 1970’s by a new generation of adventurous guitarists with a flair for appealingly unconventional Fender style, the Starcaster now returns in fabulous new Modern Player form with greater sound, build and beauty that’ll have you seeing stars.
Fender Modern Player Starcaster features:
- Series: Modern Player
- Body Material: Laminated Maple with Alder Center-Block
- Body Finish: Gloss Polyester
- Neck Material: Maple
- Neck Finish: Gloss Polyester
- Neck Shape: “C” Shape
- Scale Length: 25.5″ (64.8 cm)
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5″ (241 mm)
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
- String Nut: Synthetic Bone
- Nut Width: 1.650″ (42 mm)
- Position Inlays: Black Dot
- Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Standard
- Bridge Pickup: Fender® “Wide Range” Humbucking
- Neck Pickup: Fender® “Wide Range” Humbucking
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Pickup Configuration: HH
- Bridge: Pinned Adjusto-Matic™ with Anchored Tailpiece
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Tuning Machines: Fender® Standard Cast/Sealed
- Pickguard: 3-Ply Black
- Control Knobs: Skirted Amp Knobs
- Unique Features: Offset-Waist Semi-Hollow Body with Center-Block, Distinctive Starcaster® Headstock Shape with Black Accent Stripe, Bound Top, Back and “F”-Holes, Vintage Tinted Neck, Black Pickup Bezels, Vintage Style Skirted Control Knobs, Single Wing String Tree, Fender® Engraved Neck Plate
- Colors: Natural, Black and Aged Cherry Burst gloss finishes
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