We don't know when the Tom DeLonge Fender Starcaster signature model will surface, or if it will, but it could be some way off considering he'd only recently started playing custom models. And it makes perfect sense for the Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves guitarist who has already had a signature Fender Strat and Gibson ES-335 in his career as the Starcaster sits in a kind of middle-ground between them. But if you've got the one-pickup Starcaster bug like DeLonge, you might not have to wait after all – if you follow Mark Gutierrez's lead.
The luthier and YouTuber decided to take on the project with a Squier Starcaster model as the foundation. If you've seen DeLonge's custom models you'll note they differ from all other Starcasters in two fundamental ways; they have an oversized Strat-esque headstock father that the distinctive Starcaster design, and Tom – as with his other signature guitars – only uses one Seymour Duncan humbucker pickup with one volume control and no switch. All this is replaceable/removable/concealable thanks to a bolt-on neck and the way DeLonge has customised the particular guitar Gutierrez is attempting to recreate.
