Does anyone own or play a guild Starfire?
It looks awesome, but does it play awesome?
This guy played one, albeit nothing like the current offering. This was heavily modified and the predecessor to the Osiris bass that he used later.
Of the current crop of hollowbody basses, the guild starfire is a contender. For my tastes, I’m kinda of stuck on the Jack Cassidy epiphone because of the full scale. I also like the Reverend Dub King.
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I’ve had the Jack Cassidy recommended before, I’ll look it up, thanks for the advice, always welcome never taken for granted
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I played one in a store. Sounded great but the QC was pretty poor. Finish blemishes, misaligned screws etc.
So make sure there’s a good return policy. 
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Yeah that’s basically Epiphone in my experience. Some great but many with very random QC issues. I have liked maybe 20% of the ones I tried with maybe 60% being okay but not great.
For hollow body I really recommend checking out Gretsch. When I was looking, they were my top contender (including all of the ones mentioned here so far). The Starfire was #2.
Here’s a few on Andertons:
This is in German but is relatively easy to understand the important bits. Good tone demo.
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Almost forgot - another top contender for me was the Chowny CHB-2:
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I can, unfortunately, only like that once 
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Yeah it looks great and the sound samples I heard were good too. I still think Gretsch wins overall but the Chowny is damn good.
Actually I may take that back I am liking the Chowny better here:
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after a quick search, I’m surprised to find that Chowny has chosen to move AWAY from Asian manufacturing toward full domestic (UK) manufacturing. Very cool. And that purple is fan-freakin’-tastic.