Author Topic: For Guild Starfire Fans (Read 716 times)

coronado_iv · « **Reply #30 on:** May 10, 2013, 03:16:58 PM »

OK...that was rude...sorry! The second I hit 'POST' I realized I should have spelled one of the words a little more discretely...a#@*ole...something like that.

I looked for an 'EDIT POST' icon and found none.

My apologies...my hope is everyone can take it for the joke it was meant to be...nothing personal or pointed or said with anything but a hopeful smile!

Fact is I love old Guild and Hagstrom basses with Bisonic pickups. The newer Guilds are interesting and perplexing. I agree...why make the more expensive model with the 70's Guild humbucker that by all indications was not even close to the power, attitude, character and dynamics of a nice Bisonic.

The newer Guild 'Newark St Collection' version of the Starfire I seems to be very accurate and priced nicely. Do they really stand up to a nice old Guild Starfire of the same ilk...don't know.

I commend Fender/Guild for doing a great job on being as accurate as possible!

lbpesq · « **Reply #31 on:** May 10, 2013, 03:29:10 PM »

No offense taken. I liked the joke! And you can edit posts for up to one hour after posting. Just click on the little pad and pencil icon on the upper right of each post.

Bill, tgo

(Message edited by lbpesq on May 10, 2013)

cozmik_cowboy · « **Reply #32 on:** May 10, 2013, 05:58:01 PM »

Welcome, Chris; let's see some pix of that Coronado! (Love the II & the XII; never played the IV)

Peter

Peter · « **Reply #33 on:** May 18, 2013, 11:50:42 PM »

I've just got a 90's reissue starfire II I,ve split the coils with a tap and the single coil sound is much brighter, stronger and fuller than the lacklustre humbucker sound. if your struggling with the humbucker its cheaper than getting a bisonic or darkstar

Peter · « **Reply #34 on:** May 18, 2013, 11:56:42 PM »

also I reversed the pickups so that the powerful coil (one is weak the other strong on each pickup) is away from the neck and bridge picking up the more central harmonics and tapped that coil.

If you can use a screwdriver and a soldering iron its not hard, but the wax embedding can melt so you could perhaps short the coil if you aren't careful.

sonicus · « **Reply #35 on:** May 19, 2013, 12:11:15 AM »

Hello Peter , Welcome to the forum .
The mod that you describe is very clever. Congratulations on your success. Pictures of the coil taps would be interesting.

Peter · « **Reply #36 on:** May 19, 2013, 02:03:33 AM »

The basic configuration is in the photo of the reverse of the pickup, the other photo shows the bass with the pickups reversed and coil taps in place. the 2 coils are each at 2kohms but each pickup has a week and strong magnet and the strong coil has a much bigger signal. the first drawing is of the standard config and the second is of the rewire. The pickup case is earthed separately, but this is probably not necessary. the switch is a 6 pole 2 position on/on switch to either include or exclude the second coil as parallel. I hope this helps bw Peter

(Message edited by davehouck on May 19, 2013)

sonicus · « **Reply #37 on:** May 19, 2013, 03:38:39 AM »

Yes , Peter .
This presentation is quite excellent ! I think that many people will benefit from your example . Thank you !

Wolf