Talk:Starcaster by Fender

message: 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)

message: 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)
thread_title:  Details hard to find 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Pups 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Website 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  interesting, but needs work 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Squier parts 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Serial Numbers