My favorite is the one Chris Holmes from WASP played on the live at the Lyceum concert video. That thing was so ugly it was beautiful. And I wanted it badly.

Man, best X-shaped guitar is the Akira Takasaki's KILLER signature, hands down! Loved the video

In terms of Star Guitars, I gotta go with Akira Takasaki's Random Star from ESP

12:24 deja vu! I've just been in this place before! The Kelly Star is my all time fav, but I do also really love the Xiphos and the Stealth as well. I also have plans on my PC for a ESP Arrow/EX star, like what Jackson did for the Kelly Star, just with ESP shapes.

Chris Holmes was a badass user for sure! Love the shape! Kramer has a Tracii Guns model too...

The Ironbird is the best guitar shape of all time. You're all wrong.

This guys wood working skills makes me confident in mine 🤣 Guitar looks sick and done well... Love the kill switch!

That guitar redefines the term 'Superstar' with all the fantastic upgrades and care you put into it. You convinced me that the Gotoh bridge is also a great substitute without having to go to FU-Tone for new springs and a brass block. The single humbucker configuration is just great for metal, I'm a huge fan of that. Superb work, once again!

Your work is amazing !! Great work! I love what you do. Thanks for all your videos

I have several dean ML's and dimebags..but my fav is the stealth dimeslime..it's very comfortable sitting and standing plus it sounds heavy AF!

Wow that’s really nice. The camp green and black splatter is fantastic. Great job.

My favorite star guitar shape is the Guild X-82 Nova. The proportions are perfect. And I love the binding as well as the colors it was offered in. On a side note, Warmoth offers a star shaped body that you can spec out how you want.

Yup these guitars are my favorite, I love the pointy ones.

The news segment is my favorite thing you have done. Please keep that going. It was funny and entertaining.

I own a Jackson Warrior and LOVE it!

Change the saddle inserts and block on the Floyd. Get the replacements from F U tone. Change the pick up and replace with the Seymour duncan invader. Replace the pot with a Bourns low friction pot. Cut the lower horn for better access to upper frets. Change the neck. Replace with a DKMG 24 fret neck. I have a shark and replaced the pick ups with Jalen puck ups with clear bobbins. On other Stars that I have, paint was important. As for painting. 92 Nissan purplish blue and 92 Mitsubishi figi blue. No paint in pick up cavity, control cavity, or where the foyd goes. I have done two custom B C Rich guitars. Warlock and a Ironbird. Make your decisions count. And do not look back!

Love my pointy guitars, but still prefer a super strat for shredding on the sofa.

Favorite star guitar player, Glen Tipton and his “Painkiller” Hamer.

I have had my Dean MLX for about 8 years now after upgrading it has not failed

My Favorite is the Kramer Tracii Guns Gunstar Voyager Outfit - Black Metallic and Silver Ghost Flames

I saw George Lynch playing a Star Guitar at the Starwood around 1977-78

Got 2 Xiphos (2003 - 2007 respectively) one of them is fully customized. Love them!

It would be a dream come true to have a star 5 string bass. Particularly the Ibanez xiphos. I still fxcks with necrophagist 🎸⭐️💯

the star is one of those shapes I am obsessed with. probably why I love the Jackson Warrior and the Ibanez Xiphos body shapes. Another one I love is the B.C. Rich Ironbird.

Along the lava Kelly, THIS is your best make, in my taste. CONGRATS, what a good taste !! Which creature would have black blood ?

That Star still looks like a Flight V that went under the toothsaw on the other side in a foggy environment. Namastè. 🗨🤣💫

My favorite star, was a pawn shoppe find when I was maybe 15, a Japanese Tokia

You inspire me bud... thanks for that!!!

Was actually playing on my Charvel Desolation Star while watching this. I love it, and I find the stock pickup surprisingly good. I also have a Roope Latvala signature LTD, wich is a prettier more hi end guitar, but I prefer the neck shape on the Charvel. The Charvel Star is my fave Star shape, but I also have a soft spot for the B.C.Rich Iron Bird, and of course the Jackson Warrior.

Mk1 ironbird, Kramer Voyager, and Jackson Kelly star are all lethal

BCRich Stealth is my personal favorite second being Warlock and IRONBIRD.

OMG! Nice work!

Good for you, dude. You're making a living doing what you love. I'm jealous as hell. Keep up the good work 🤘

Hell yeah ide buy a star guitar its pointy enough and weapon enough looking

Lita ford is another one and so was saint's rhythm guitarist he played a star guitar as well 😊

that thing looks killer. and i love the les halen in the background.

Another great job!

Awesome video, Mark! I also agree that the 1996t is by far the best double-locking tremolo in the game. I've installed three of them on my guitars now and I will never go with any other Floyd Rose system if I'm doing an upgrade

Kane Roberts of Alice Cooper played a star guitar. Love the Chris Holmes hacked up yellow one too!

I own an ML and I have to say it's the best guitar ever

Kramer had a Star. Mick Mars actually played one. All of those are pretty much based on Explorers.

My favorite and still want to own. The dean Dime from hell.

Looks real good man

Sweet dude. I just found your channel. I've been working on getting the same thing off the ground. I love fixing old, beat up guitars. The Star "X" is my favorite body shape, too! My favorite is the Dean Phantom X. Long live the Dime \m/

Cool guitar. Only thing I’d change would be a reverse headstock.

Roope Latvala’s star is the greatest star guitar ever created

David Davidson should make the list his playing is unreal and his Jackson sig warrior is a beast of a guitar, great build loving the star shapes.

Kane Roberts (former Alice Cooper guitarist) played my fav star. Black Kramer with silver faded in the center (think thats how to describe it). A buggy of mine had it in JR High.

Love star guitar shape have to make my own

Roope Latvala RS-II is my dream guitar with that reverse headstock i mean look at it 15:14

That guitar is a true battle axe! 🤘💚🎵

The Desolation series was definitely a killer run!

i love star guitars i have a jeff loomis schecter cygnus and its one of the nicest playing guitars i have!! im also on the hut for an old ESP LDS Gus G star!!

Very nice

My favourite star is the razor back

Personal favorite star shape is still ESP made Latvala signatures.

The world needs more olive green guitars. If I ever had a signature guitar it’d be a dark olive matte super strat.

The dean ml trumps all even the razor back wich is a awsome thing

My favourites are the Beast and the Ironbird from BC Rich

First star guitar I saw was when Roope Latvala was still in COB and got a signature guitar from ESP. It was fuckin awesome it had a single bridge pick up, white body, cross inlays and it was an ESP.

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the Ibanez DT series that they had in the mid 80's . Was only made for I believe about a few years( (85-87 ?). Had one back in the day. It's pretty much exactly like the guitar you're doing right now . Came equipped with Seymour Duncan pickups and a Kahler flyer bridge.

Akira Takasaki's ESP Star, or rather any star guitar with the Danelectro style headstock.

I’m building a VH78 guitar. After this I’ll be building a ESP Random Star like Akira from Loudness played in the mid 80s the red one with the Dan Elctro style neck. Your channel is great.

yet another awesome rebuild! keep it up, i love watching your videos!

That is badass

I'm a gus g fan and have several of his Jackson sig

I would probably go Ibanez Ziphos in that last match-up, but I'm apalled that my favorite star shape has yet to be talked about, that is the ESP / LTD AX-50. Looks like they went after the Warlock on that design but I actually prefer it as it has a more futuristic and streamlined look.

Nice build!!! Love it as always

21:11 Number 6 The Gotoh is more comfy on the hand when muting

My fav star shape is Esp/Ltd Gus 600 Esp ltd RL 600

Nice custom guitar.

Nice build mark!

It's all about spirit what ever works for you theres no wrong guitar

That’s one awsome guitar Tim’s luky

I would've included the Jackson Rob Cavestany Death Angel in the poll. Kind of a Warlock/Star hybrid.

Jackson warrior hands down.

Love the channel!!! Amazing work!

love star guitars and wamt one. Nut noone makes them other than Jackson... and not a fan of the latest look of those gus g models. Would love an "old" LTD RL-600

Looks great! Such a great guitar 🤘🤘🤘

For me, the dean ml is the greatest star type out there. Dimebag all the way

Hey Mark,what is that Double cut in the beginning of this video.Its black with a red border...I love it!!!but didn't see the headstock. Thanks man!!!

Star guitars look cool, though as a practical kinda guy, the form over function mindset bugs me. I appreciate how S style Superstrats (the Dinky shape particularly, given it takes the form following function standard that is a Strat and makes it ever so slightly smaller, just a tad more aggressive and with better upper fret access, without either sticking too much with the original as in the San Dimas, or going too pointy and aggressive-looking as in the RG). This to say: apart from BC Rich’s iterations that, shall we say… take an acquired taste, I appreciate these pointy, flashier body styles, though I can’t really see myself rocking one. As with the Kelly Star, this one looks awesome after the GuitarGuts treatment, though!

Awesome guitar! Loves how it turned out, btw i was curious, whats that ssh¿ frankenstrat guitar that was behind you, looked at your previous videos but couldnt find it

Bad ass 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

good idea to have multiple paint samples, even for the future

BC Warlock 4LIFE!

Sick!!!!!! love this one!

I bitterly regret putting my 1994 B C Rich Warlock in the bin fifteen years ago. It had the worst floyd rose imaginable and shit pickups. It was impossible to get good intonation. However it was the guitar I played gigs with as a kid! The sad thing is KZfaq has taught me how to sort all the issues with that guitar out now. :-(

I think you should try making a camo pattern with splatter

Just wanna add Marty Friedman with his carvin V220 in cacophony.

I prefer headstocks to be black for the most part. But its a nice guitar over all.

Nice

Any of Dime's Washburns is the best for me.

Another awesome job brother 🤘💪⚡️

What about the Westone dimension five in red die mahogany now that's a star

Fkn awesome!!!

I have a 85 Ibanez xv500 guitar in violet burst, needs some love

Hey I'm a huge Metallica and I'm having trouble picking a jackson dimeslime or a gibson faded flying v. Also love the videos keep it up

I feel like Warrior and Xiphos should be pitted against each other. And the Sammy Duet model owns all of these idgaf what anyone says about it.

dean ml is my favorite star guitar