Squier Starcasters

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:17 am

Am travelling so apologies for the lack of decent links/photos etc but:

http://offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtop ... 2e02754e9a

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 1:19 pm

Squier-branded WRHBs, I wonder what they're like. Personally I like the "natural".

kingkiller · Post by **kingkiller** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:05 pm

NickS wrote:Squier-branded WRHBs, I wonder what they're like. Personally I like the "natural".

If theyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re anything like the WRHBÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s on Squier Tele Customs/Deluxes, theyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re just regular humbuckers in a WR casing. I saw a photo of that green Contemporary one w the active pickups and itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s so deliciously wrong and I love it.

George · Post by **George** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:24 pm

Look pretty great. They're missing the 5th pot which the recent MIMs also missed but I never cared to find out what it did anyway (blend pot?).

The pickup construction is probably going to be a standard humbucker like other modern reissues?

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:11 pm

As far as I know the original WRNB is a finicky construction which requested more or less identical resistance of both of the coils and identical power wise magnetic fields created by two halves of a pickup. PITA to make it right and even a bigger PITA to mass produce it. Humbuckers are a much simpler alternative

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 6:54 pm

George wrote:Look pretty great. They're missing the 5th pot which the recent MIMs also missed but I never cared to find out what it did anyway (blend pot?).

The pickup construction is probably going to be a standard humbucker like other modern reissues?

The most recent ones were Made in China. I wouldn't be surprised if the CV's are the exact same guitar as the modern player ones.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:43 pm

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:44 pm

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thats the 300 dollar one. theres a sunburst one buttfuck sunburst

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:49 pm

and the 400 dollar ones

dogshit brown im so excited! not really.

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robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:58 pm

now that i have experience tinting some necks on my own I think i honestly like the cheaper one with 2 knobs in Oly White.

the green and the blue ones are totally moddable too! check out the backs.

the other ones are like FUCK YOU, YOU AINT CHANGING MY SHIT AROUND WITH OUT BLOODY FINGERS FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:08 pm

The white affinity one looks sick.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:09 pm

Hopefully this means there's an Cheap Coronado on the way too.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:09 pm

Noirie. wrote:The white affinity one looks sick.

yeah if you could rip the tinted neck off the CV and put it on the white affinity it would be rad town. and then put all the plasticky shit parts in the back of it like the contemporary so i can tear it apart we are approaching natalie portman territory

i like 2 knobs better too. because we all know fuck an tone knob. double fuck an 2 tone knobs

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jun 19, 2019 11:12 pm

looks like you get Pings on the CV too!!

slot heads or death

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:56 am

Natural one is nice... I like very much!

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:27 am

The CV ones are awesome and hard to believe. Not as hard to believe as it would've been before they did Stangs and Jags but still, THERE'S SEEMINGLY NO CAP ON THIS BOYS

Love the Lake Poo Brown one even if i wouldn't choose it from the line, because all the coolest '70s guitars came in that finish.

(Also yes plz to Squier Coronado XII in Hotdog Stand Burst).

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:50 am

George wrote:I never cared to find out what it did anyway (blend pot?)

Master volume... only really useful when using the middle position with one/both of the pickups rolled off a tad, while also plugged into a dirty tube amp and you want to dial the gain of your sound back a bit. On the 4-knob Gibson setup you'd have to turn both pickup volumes down to the same spot to do that, hardly an on-the-fly move. It made enough sense for it's time, plus most of those popular 50s Gretsch designs (Jets, Falcons, Gentlemen) had them so it wasn't a super lofty aim or appointment either.
If you think about it, since virtually nobody uses their onboard controls anymore to dial in their "always dirty" amp sound, this would just be an extra pot/knob per guitar in terms of production cost and then also something extra to potentially go faulty on the owner.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:15 pm

TAKE ME A TRIP TO BROWN TOWN !!!!

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 9:58 pm

so is shortscale totally a dead forum now or what?

like no one out there gives a fuck about 300 dollar starcasters now?

kingkiller · Post by **kingkiller** » Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:26 pm

robroe wrote:so is shortscale totally a dead forum now or what?

like no one out there gives a fuck about 300 dollar starcasters now?

I EXTREMELY give a fuck for the record