Steve in Concord
Junior Member
This is my first post to the group. Have been enjoying reading the posts but never got around to registering until now. I bought a black Starfire II, built in 1999, about a year and a half ago. It looked absolutely mint, but the bridge wouldn't go down low enough for the action I wanted and the bridge pickup was cocked and hung up and I couldn't adjust its height. So I never played it much. Well, yesterday I finally got around to taking everything apart. I drilled out the bridge so it would sit down lower on the support bolts, freed up the pickup and got it moving, restrung it (D'Addario NYXL 10's) and set the pickup heights -- I can't believe what an incredible sound the SF has. Always wanted a thin hollow-body, but never liked the Gibson ES - thought it sounded too much like my Les Paul. But the SF is a totally different beast. I now realize how lucky I was to find this one on Reverb.