The Fender Starcaster, the wild child of semi-hollow body guitars. These were first released in 1976, while they were commercially unsuccessful it gained a cult-like status amongst funk players like Leo Nocentelli and Claydes Charles Smith. The Starcaster came about after CBS realized they had a lot of Coronado parts left and enlisted Fender designer Gene Fields to make some Starcaster prototypes with the “leftovers”. While I love these guitars the Fender community seems split on it. While some prefer the lighter and trem system loaded Coronados, I (and others) find the starcaster to fit the bill of an offset 335 role which I just love.