Finding myself without enough shekels to buy a Guild Starfire a few years ago, I purchased a new red DeArmond Starfire Special, basically modeled after the Guild Starfire III. It's a '98, "Crafted in Korea", with the white single coil DeArmond pu's. It is one sweet guitar, excellent workmanship and playability, its a real blues machine. I know they were only made for a while, and the production was moved out of Korea at one point. The market price on DeArmonds dropped for a while, now it seems to be back up there. I'm basing this on what I'm seeing on e-bay. Apparently the Korean buillt Starfires are more desireable. Hans or someone, could you comment please?