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I've always loved the Starcaster and it's goofy design but I've always been a big fan of Travis Bean guitar. Owning a vintage of either is a bit of a stretch right now, so I figured I'd do the next best thing and have cooter build me a mutt of the two.

Features:
solid body 90% size Starcaster body
1/4" roundovers similar to Travis Bean
2 humbuckers with no pickup rings
recessed 3-way switch
Travis Bean switch layout/back panel
matching starcaster headstock
black Travis Bean pick guard
thinking some kind of metallic white but not 100% on color yet

Rough idea photoshop




Templates

Cool. Another starcaster build. Where are you getting the neck?

I'm using a Squier Strat neck and having Cooter reshape it. The back may have some lines from the wood but the front will be the color I choose and black, so from the front there is no way anyone will tell that it's a hacked up strat headstock.

I'm actually considering a lake placid blue color, so we may be going for very similar guitar when they're all done.

Sweet. I might not do pelham for mine. I was actually thinking ocean turquoise metallic because its like an aged lake placid blue.

Sweet. Aren't you happy I got those starcaster templates to cooter?

I love this. I think it'd be better with just one volume and one tone control though.

Also would be ace painted in pearlescent white like this:

Cooter has been busy pumping out Starcaster bodies!

Noirie. wrote:I love this. I think it'd be better with just one volume and one tone control though.

Also would be ace painted in pearlescent white like this:

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I actually thought about that but design wise, I figured the 4 knobs has more control and helps fill empty butt space. The white is pretty much exactly what I hope the color looks like but we'll see what the auto shop has in stock when it's time to start painting.

Cooter finished up the body and reshaped the headstock. The front of the headstock will be painted and the back has an added maple veneer so there won't be any mismatched maple.

oh fuck me, that is starting to take shape, and im really digging the fuck out of it.

The headstock looks AMAZING.

Thomas wrote:The headstock looks AMAZING.

It really is. Cooter always has top notch bodies but he went an extra step with the headstock. I'm quite pleased.

I'm totally gonna have him do the swoop like that for mine.

What's the backplate in the middle for man?

Punkacc9 wrote:What's the backplate in the middle for man?

TB style pickups, I imagine. No screws or rings on front.



I really love this, it looks 10x awesome-r every post.

So it screws in to the back?

What Paul said. Instead of pickup rings, the screws will be in the back of the guitar. When I was thinking of this guitar, I basically wanted a solid body Starcaster with as many TB features as possible and the lack of pickup rings is one detail that I thought would add a lot to the build.

Yeah, that's really the big feature that makes it look TB-ish IMO. Excited to see how that looks all done up on the Starcaster shape.

I've always loved the aesthetic of TBs, along with their more obvious properties. Just needs a fatter ass! ha.