Frank Deimel wrote on his website: A recent favorite of ours: this Firestar has TONE! Based on the regular
Firestar with the three piece pickguard and the Deimel Custom Mastery MV
vibrato, it was a customers wish to mix the fat neck tone of a Lollar
CC neck pickup with the wide range reissue by Lollar, called »Regal«.
The output can be perfectly controlled by selecting either the parallel
mode on the bridge pickup or the surf switch, which takes out boomy bass
frequencies.
The sound of the guitar got described as very assertive in the mix with a band!
The routing of the switch section from left to right out of the playing
position is the following: piezo (on/off), serial/parallel on bridge
pickup, surf switch. Body: Yellow poplar, one-piece Neck: Maple Fretboard: Indian Rosewood Frets: 21, Wagner medium jumbo Scale length: 25.5”, compound radius 9.5” to 12” Neck shape: Custom Headstock: Matching headstock with decal, 6R Nut: Unbleached bone Glue: Polyurethane Color: Black galaxy Pickguard: 4-ply tortoise celluloid, aluminum nickel control plates Pickups: Lollar Regal bridge, Lollar CC neck; built in piezo Bridge: Mastery M1 Vibrato: Mastery OMV, brushed Tuners: Gotoh Kluson style SDS510, nickel Knobs: Witch hats, black Switches: 3 Switchcraft slider switches, Gotoh toggle with gold contacts; piezo on/off; serial/parallel; surf switch Case: Hiscox with Deimel logo Has very few and small traces of use.
