Made in Japan
1990's
This guitar is a Fernandes FR-95S (or a FR-85S?) model which is AFAIK, marketed only in Japan. It is a superstrat-shaped guitar with Ash body and H-S-S pickup configuration. It has a nice, thick (full 1/4") and relatively flat-radiused rosewood fretboard with 22 medium frets and gold colored Gotoh tuners.
The guitar has the Fernandes FRT Tremolo system and is equipped with the FSK-401 Dual Mode Fernandes Sustainer system.
This guitar is the pre-cursor to the Korean/Taiwan-made Fernandes Revolver Pro guitar marketed to the US, EU and other markets.
The Fernandes Sustainer system is one of the more successful innovation to the electric guitar next to the Floyd Rose trem system. The sustaining effect sounds and feel natural and not gimmicky. The guitar still sound and feel like a guitar and not like a synth or an organ.
Steve Vai, U2's The Edge, and many others use the sustainer system very successfully. I particularly like Vai's use of the sustainer effect in 'Whispering A Prayer' and 'For The Love of God'.
1 comment:
Hi. How the pick up selector does work? This model has a 3 way pickups selector: Does it mean the neck/sustainer don't work as a "normal" pickup?. The most recent 5 way (Selecting the neck/sustainer as "normal" pickup).
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