Not only is this a long process, but to access the screws, you first need to jimmy the pickup out of the dish which is hard enough in itself as it requires taken the strings of, and then using a small flathead screwdriver to lever the pickup out (as the pickups fit in very tightly to the dish). These screws can be driven in or out to set the height of the pickup, and the long screws through the pickup, pull the pickup down tight onto the four screw base. Instead, in the dish, there are four small screws which the pickup base sits on. The pickups sit in a metal dish which then fits into the cavity of the body/pickguard, but the screws through the top of the pickup only hold it down in place, there are no springs to automatically push the pickups up when you loosen the screws. It has two recesses in the bridge pickup which I’m yet to see elsewhere.Īlso the pickups themselves have a few design flaws which they clearly hadn’t rectified at that point.
It has the rare 14th and 16th Fret markers as opposed to the standard 15th and 17th markers (which takes a while to get used to at first!). It also has some other tell tale features about it that suggest it was made very early in the production of Fyrbyrds. Going off what I’ve picked up (that Maton Serial numbers start at 100), I believe this makes it the fourth Fyrbyrd ever made. It’s hard to see, but the serial number is still visible, and this is number 104. Unfortunately the ‘Fyrbyrd’ sticker was lost as was the Maton ‘M’ on the headstock (though I have no idea why, as I believe that all Fyrbyrds had black headstock faces, so I dont see why they needed to refin it in black)? As you can see, the black refin is quite old itself as it has also undergone some very nice crazing. When it was refinished there was a grey undercoat added, but the original red is still visible in a few places. It has been refinished in a black polyurethane paint which has a very nice gloss to it, but it was originally a Fyre Red colour. One tuner head was replaced with a square styled one, so (but thanks to the story on your Fyrbyrd) I carved it down to a matching oval shape with sandpaper.
Still has the original truss rod cover badge too.
It came with its original case and original (though probably not Maton affiliated) strap. Here’s my Fyrbyrd… been resprayed black and serial 104, so the fourth one made ever.
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