Entry Gear

FERNANDES/REGULUS

owner: Shin

2020.11.20: I am sure that this is the one he used because of the location of the dents and the fact that the tremolo spring back panel is missing from the original specifications, compared to the image he tweeted and the image advertised at the time of its release. The back panel of the tremolo spring is missing.
He said it was in unusable condition without repair, but I think it will be usable as long as the bridge itself is available, except that the metal parts on the body side are rusted.
I thought for a long time that the color was pitch black, but I think it is a lame grayish black, almost Mercedes blue.
Personally, I don't see many players using the stock bridge for a long time, so I'm thinking of installing a VS100N bridge that I can simply attach.
2020.12.2: I took it apart for cleaning.
The neck pocket has a shim in the shape of a pocket that raises the bottom of the neck pocket by about 1mm.
When I opened the panel, I found that the PU was not the one in the catalog, the capacitor was an orange drop, CTS pots and CRL selectors were also used, and the conductive paint treatment was also connected to each counterbore, so I wondered if the wiring itself might have been done elsewhere. The wiring itself might have been redone elsewhere?
I've never seen this manufacturer go this far...
Also, in the large zigzag space, there was a mark where the boat-shaped jack plate was originally supposed to be embedded in the back of the unit.
I'm wondering a lot about whether this was really his idea, made just for him...
The bridge is built up with VS100N as planned, and the selector is wired the same as Suhr's 2H5way.
I adjusted the octave and the 6th string went to the limit of what the saddle can pull, so it doesn't seem to fit the design except for the regular.
I set it at 10-46, but the string groove on the nut looks like it was made at 09-42, so I'll have to change it on my next reupholstering...
I managed to get rid of the blue mold on the PU cover, but I gave up on the rust as it seems to be very aggressive lol.
This guitar design itself is from the old Neurotec Guitar, so I think I used the wood I had in stock for that.