I bought a 2017 Starfire in 2019 and I liked it a lot, so when I saw a 2000 Starfire at the same local guitar shop, I bought it. I was told that the 2000 SF was probably one of the last guitars to come from the Westerly factory.
I don't usually take these guitars out of the house, but last week I put the 2017 into its hardshell case to go to a jam, and I noticed that the hardshell case is very unstable when it is set on the floor. It feels like it will fall over. It appears to me that the factory thought that the case latches and the case "buttons" were close enough in height that they didn't need to use another "button" on the treble side of the case. But they used four buttons on the bottom of the case?
So my questions to the Wise Ones are:
#1 Both the cases for the 2017 SF and the 2000 SF are labeled "Newark St. Collection" - did they use the same badge on cases for guitars that were built in Westerly and also the guitars built in Korea, 17 years later?
#2 Does everyone just stand the case up on its butt end with the four buttons, or just live with the unstable feeling when placing the case on its treble side?
TIA.
I don't usually take these guitars out of the house, but last week I put the 2017 into its hardshell case to go to a jam, and I noticed that the hardshell case is very unstable when it is set on the floor. It feels like it will fall over. It appears to me that the factory thought that the case latches and the case "buttons" were close enough in height that they didn't need to use another "button" on the treble side of the case. But they used four buttons on the bottom of the case?
So my questions to the Wise Ones are:
#1 Both the cases for the 2017 SF and the 2000 SF are labeled "Newark St. Collection" - did they use the same badge on cases for guitars that were built in Westerly and also the guitars built in Korea, 17 years later?
#2 Does everyone just stand the case up on its butt end with the four buttons, or just live with the unstable feeling when placing the case on its treble side?
TIA.