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Star (guitar)
The star is a body shape of solid body electric guitar, particularly favoured for heavy metal music. It blends some features of the Gibson Flying V and Gibson Explorer, both of them much older designs.
Eddie Van Halen hacked his explorer-shaped Ibanez Destroyer to make it look like a shark[further explanation needed] around 1977, so he is credited[according to whom?] as the inventor of the star-shaped guitar.[citation needed]
Wayne Charvel refined the design and those Charvel Stars 79-83 are among the most valued instruments of the brand. The earlier had strat headstocks, later on replaced with the Jackson pointy headstock.
The earliest known star bodies were built by Jackson Guitars, who produced both through-neck custom models and commercial versions with bolt-on necks.[citation needed]
More recently, Jackson have produced the Jackson Kelly Star KSXT/KS-2 with a similar body shape to the Star, combining the "front" half of a Jackson Kelly with the asymmetric pointed 'V' ends of the Jackson Randy Rhoads. This body shape was only in production for a short time in the early 2000s, with its market niche now being served by the Jackson Warrior, which is less distinctly "star"-shaped at first glance but has a similar general structure. Jackson now makes a "Gus G." signature star in 3 levels, the JS32 bolt on import, the X series neck thru import, and a US made neck thru model.
A star body produced by Kramer Guitars was known as the Voyager. Kramer also produced another star body guitar model for the Japanese market only: The Kramer JK8000.
Charvel Guitars have also produced some model of star profile, for example the star model of the Charvel Desolation series.
The Dean ML is a similar design to the star, but differs in having symmetrical tail horns (or wings as they are known in Flying V and similar designs). The Washburn Guitars Dime (or Dimebag, after Dimebag Darrell who popularised the Dean design) uses the Dean ML profile.
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Star (guitar)
The star is a body shape of solid body electric guitar, particularly favoured for heavy metal music. It blends some features of the Gibson Flying V and Gibson Explorer, both of them much older designs.
Eddie Van Halen hacked his explorer-shaped Ibanez Destroyer to make it look like a shark[further explanation needed] around 1977, so he is credited[according to whom?] as the inventor of the star-shaped guitar.[citation needed]
Wayne Charvel refined the design and those Charvel Stars 79-83 are among the most valued instruments of the brand. The earlier had strat headstocks, later on replaced with the Jackson pointy headstock.
The earliest known star bodies were built by Jackson Guitars, who produced both through-neck custom models and commercial versions with bolt-on necks.[citation needed]
More recently, Jackson have produced the Jackson Kelly Star KSXT/KS-2 with a similar body shape to the Star, combining the "front" half of a Jackson Kelly with the asymmetric pointed 'V' ends of the Jackson Randy Rhoads. This body shape was only in production for a short time in the early 2000s, with its market niche now being served by the Jackson Warrior, which is less distinctly "star"-shaped at first glance but has a similar general structure. Jackson now makes a "Gus G." signature star in 3 levels, the JS32 bolt on import, the X series neck thru import, and a US made neck thru model.
A star body produced by Kramer Guitars was known as the Voyager. Kramer also produced another star body guitar model for the Japanese market only: The Kramer JK8000.
Charvel Guitars have also produced some model of star profile, for example the star model of the Charvel Desolation series.
The Dean ML is a similar design to the star, but differs in having symmetrical tail horns (or wings as they are known in Flying V and similar designs). The Washburn Guitars Dime (or Dimebag, after Dimebag Darrell who popularised the Dean design) uses the Dean ML profile.