New Guild Starfire with singe DS-style pickyp?!?

[4stringer77]

C'mon 7ender, bring on the Jetstar. Peter Tork would approve.

http://www.gbase.com/gear/guild-jetstar-bass-1966-sunburst

Hey it's like a retarded thunderbird!

[drbassman]

The price is really stupid!

[nofi]

oops.

[Dave W]

Fender already put this out under the DeArmond name. It flopped.

[jumbodbassman]

Fender already put this out under the DeArmond name. It flopped.

Pilgrim and i have them.  His is that purpleblue color mine is black.  Actually plays great ,  pickups are weak.  Curtis does a retro of the pickup with new magnets and different wire that i will have to do eventually

[4stringer77]

They could put a bi-sonic in it now, which the DeArmonds didn't have. The one on the Gbase site is very rare with the 4 in line headstock and a hagstrom bi-sonic. Most of the 4 in line headstock versions had switched to different pickups. There are less of these original jetstars than Tbirds as well. This dude looked cool playing one.

[jumbodbassman]

I love the sound of some of the big hollow body basses, but I am just not comfortable with the feel of them.  The Epi Casady bass I used briefly sounded nice, but always dug into my arm.  Now, if they did these again, I'd be really tempted.

+1.  thats the one i always GAS for.  I have the 90's dearmond and it is just a hollow body style bass.  not very comfortable unless you are strickly a pick guy.  Casady bass sounds great but is a beast to play.  scale is way too big for that body and i am way past my growing age.

[jumbodbassman]

I have a set of the Novak pickups.  I sent out a pair of dead Ripper pickups to him to fix.  He offered the bisonic which i jumped on.  Without the screw pole adjustment the bisonics really look like p90's so  they fit snuggly in the ripper housing.    put them in my ripper.  then replaced the 4 way switch with a series parallel switch.  The bisonics are single coil and i wired them like a j bass VVT so the switch really adds a nice kick and kinda covers the p bass things pretty well.  Need to try it with new and better strings before i have final comment but it sounds great.  thinking  half rounds as it is a little on the too bright side.  never thought i would say that about a Gibson bass.    

sorry for the bad pictures

[jumbodbassman]

Btw, has anyone who has owned a bisonic measured the kOhm on it? I got four bisonic. One is broken, one measures around 6 kOhm, one around 14 and one is above 16. Huge difference there.

I have three DS and they are all in the 6-7 range

[Pilgrim]

Pilgrim and i have them.  His is that purpleblue color mine is black.  Actually plays great ,  pickups are weak.  Curtis does a retro of the pickup with new magnets and different wire that i will have to do eventually

I confess that I wasn't playing the Jetstar and moved it on to another owner.  Liked it, just had other basses I liked better.  If I kept it I probably would have had Curtis Novak do the pickups as suggested.

[hieronymous]

I confess that I wasn't playing the Jetstar and moved it on to another owner.  Liked it, just had other basses I liked better.  If I kept it I probably would have had Curtis Novak do the pickups as suggested.

Saw one of the DeArmond reissues at Guitar Showcase in San Jose, CA for $295 - not sure if that's a good price, probably not considering one would probably want to upgrade the pickups - not that I'm interested...