This is NOT a question about the Spellstrike ability, just spell combat.
Spell combat requires "wielding a light or one-handed melee weapon in the other hand" to use. Can the base magus use it to cast a spell, then make ranged attacks with a thrown starknife, dagger or similar thrown melee weapon?
As a related question, can the eldritch archer archetype select a starknife, dagger or similar thrown weapon as their arcane bond and use it it with their ranged spell combat?
From what i can find, there's two schools of thought about this stuff:
1: The weapon is always part of the melee weapon table so its always a melee weapon and not a ranged weapon regardless of how you attack with it.
2: The weapon is a ranged weapon and a melee weapon because it has a range increment and can be used to make ranged weapon attacks.
This has implications on rulings for other things, like attacking into melee, rapid shot etc, so most tables seem to opt for the latter interpretation but i'm trying to find something relatively definitive because most of what I can find is from very old threads.
(It doesn't make too much difference to me if i have to take the Eldritch Archer Archetype or not, but I would like to know. And yes, I'm aware other magus archetypes exist, such as myrmidarch and card caster.)