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The star is an avant-garde body shape of solid body electric guitar, particularly favoured for heavy metal music. It blends some features of the 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 around 1977, so he is credited as the inventor Of the star shaped guitar. That particular Destroyer was used on classic tracks like "you really got me".

Wayne Charvel refined the design and those Charvel Stars 79-83 are among the mostr valued instruments of the brand, with a myriad of pickup and trem options, necks and wopds.

The earlier had strat headstocks, later on replaced with the Jackson pointy headstock.

These early star guitars were reissued around 2005 by the now Fender owned Charvel Brand, and mqde in the USA by the Charvel Custom Shop. You can still order from Wayne Charvels brand, Waynes Guitars, the classic design in any colour or option, or from the Charvel Custom Shop, where some of the original Charvel operators are still working in (eldred, shannon and the other cats).

The Charvel desolation star guitar is a cheaper alternative, mass-produced in asían countries at a fraction of the price, sporting 24 fret necks

The earliest known star bodies were built by Jackson Guitars, who produced both through-neck custom models and commercial versions with bolt-on necks.

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.

A star body produced by Kramer Guitars was known as the Voyager. Charvel Guitars have also produced some model of star profile, for example the star model of the Charvel Desolation series.


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