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

4stringer77 · February 01, 2013, 07:16:00 PM

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 · February 02, 2013, 05:50:44 AM

The price is really stupid!

nofi · February 02, 2013, 06:59:36 AM

oops.

Dave W · February 02, 2013, 09:17:52 AM

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

jumbodbassman · February 02, 2013, 09:48:29 AM

Quote from: Dave W on February 02, 2013, 09:17:52 AM
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 · February 02, 2013, 09:50:19 AM

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 · February 02, 2013, 10:03:46 AM

Quote from: gweimer on January 27, 2013, 12:07:15 PM
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 · February 02, 2013, 10:22:34 AM

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 · February 02, 2013, 10:27:25 AM

Quote from: Mungi on January 29, 2013, 05:14:27 AM
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 · February 03, 2013, 03:46:30 PM

Quote from: jumbodbassman on February 02, 2013, 09:48:29 AM
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 · February 03, 2013, 08:56:58 PM

Quote from: Pilgrim on February 03, 2013, 03:46:30 PM
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...