The Red Special is the electric guitar designed and built by Que's guitarist Brian May and his father, Harold, wh Brian was a teager in the early 1960s.
The name Red Special came from the reddish-brown colour the guitar attained after being stained and painted with numerous layers of Rustins Plastic Coating.
The name Fireplace is a referce to the fact that the wood used to make the neck came from a fireplace mantel.
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After he saw Jeff Beck playing live and making differt sounds just by moving the guitar in front of the amplifier. He wanted an instrumt that would be alive and interact with him and the air around him. May has used the Red Special almost exclusively, including on Que albums and in live performances, throughout the band's tire career.
In celebration of the instrumt's 50th anniversary, a book about its construction and history, Brian May’s Red Special: The Story of the Home-Made Guitar that Rocked Que and the World, was writt by Brian May with Simon Bradley.
They began to work on the guitar in August 1963, with the project being finished in October 1964. The neck was constructed from wood from a hundred-year-old-ish fireplace mantel
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That a frid of the family was about to throw away. The neck was hand-shaped into the desired form, a job that was made more difficult by the age and quality of the wood. May revealed there are worm holes in the neck of the guitar that he filled in with matchsticks.
May decided to position them in a personal way: two dots at the 7th and 19th fret and three at the 12th and 24th.
With oak inserts in the top and bottom layers sourced from an old table. It was covered with mahogany marquetry veer on the top, bottom and side to give it the appearance of a solid-body guitar. It was originally intded that the guitar would have f-holes but this was never done.
Burns Brian May Signature Special Red
White plastic shelf edging was th applied to the top and bottom edges to protect them from damage. The guitar features three single-coil pick-ups and a custom-made aluminium bridge. May purchased a set of Burns Tri-Sonic pick-ups and covered the coils of two with Araldite epoxy to reduce microphonics. The middle pickup remained uncoated and this is understood to have be modified in the early 1980s wh DiMarzio examined the Red Special wh designing pickups for the first Guild replica. The magnet was turned over to change its polarity and the wires on the solder posts swapped (to mimic a reverse wound coil) which made his favoured pickup combination of bridge and middle in phase humbucking. He originally wound his own pick-ups, as he had for his first guitar, but he did not like the resulting sound because of the polarity of these pick-ups: alternating North-South instead of all North.
The tremolo system is made from an old harded-steel knife-edge shaped into a V and two motorbike valve springs to counter the 79 pounds (36 kg) string tsion. The tsion of the springs can be adjusted by screwing the bolts, which run through the middle of the springs, in or out via two small access holes next to the rear strap button. To reduce friction, the bridge was completed with rollers to allow the strings to return perfectly in tune after using the tremolo arm (the arm itself was from a bicycle saddlebag holder with a plastic knitting needle tip).
For the same reason, at the other d of the neck the strings pass over a zero fret and through a bakelite string guide.
Brian May Red Special Signature Guitar In Antique Cherry With Gig Bag
Originally the guitar had a built-in distortion circuit, adapted from a mid-1960s Vox distortion effects unit. The switch for this was in front of the phase switches. May soon discovered that he preferred the sound of a Vox AC30 distorting at full power, so the circuit was removed. The switch hole is now covered by a mother-of-pearl star inlay, but was originally covered by insulation tape.
May still uses the original but he has used replicas in some performances. Notably, the original guitar was not used in the videos We Will Rock You, and Spread Your Wings, instead using his John-Birch-made Red Special copy (see Replicas section below) which differs from the original in its all-maple construction and natural maple color, since he did not want to expose the Red Special to snow. The Birch was also used live as a back-up for the Red Special until it was destroyed by May in a fit of rage due to the tuning stability issues. Similarly, he opted not to use the Red Special for the Play the Game video, instead using a budget Satellite-badged replica of a Fder Stratocaster, since at one point in the video, Que singer Freddie Mercury would snatch the guitar from May and throw it back to him. The Red Special was omitted from the video for Princes of the Universe, in which May used a white Washburn RR11V (for reasons unknown, and this guitar is oft mistak for a Jackson Randy Rhoads). He recorded the original of Crazy Little Thing Called Love on Que drummer Roger Taylor's Fder Esquire, but performed the accompanying video and live performances of the song until 1992 with a Fder Telecaster.
The first official copy of the Red Special was made by British luthier John Birch and was used as a back-up for live performances until it was ‘accidtally’ destroyed by May during a concert in August 1982.
Brian May Signature Guitar
The Birch was used in place of the Red Special in the music videos for We Will Rock You however it was not used to record the song, and Spread Your Wings. The guitar differs from the original in its all-maple construction and natural finish except for the back which is gold finished. After its destruction May st the guitar to American luthier John Page, who kept the remains for over 20 years before sding them back to May. May th had the guitar glued back together by Andrew Guyton and still owns it, however it hardly functions anymore.
Other official replicas of the Red Special have be manufactured in varying numbers and in multiple models (i.e. a higher-d full-featured model, and a lower-cost one lacking some of the intricacies of the former) several times during the 1980s and 1990s, most oft by the Guild Guitar Company from 1983–85 and again from 1993–95, and by Burns Guitars from 2001 (mass-produced models made in Korea). The Burns model, produced with guidance from May, was awarded Best Electric Guitar of the Year 2001 by Guitarist Magazine.
Currtly, only Brian May Guitars (taking over manufacture from Burns) manufacture authorised replicas, the Special at a budget price point and the Super Mk2 at a higher price point aimed at thusiasts.
The Bmg Super
KZ Guitar Works manufactured the original Red Special Super model which was hand-made in Japan by master luthier Kazutaka Ijuin. This model has be discontinued and production of the revised Super model tak up in the Czech Republic for Brian May Guitars.
The Brian May Guitars version differs from the Burns original in several ways; for example, the tremolo was a two-point synchronised tremolo with rear access plate. These models also feature a half-moon scratch plate behind the bridge to emulate the original. The switches were also changed from black to white to match May's guitar. They still use the Burns Tri-Sonic pick-ups. 24 guitars were made in a rare baby blue color with a pearloid pickguard and gold hardware. The guitars come in Antique Cherry (a similar color to that of the Red Special), White and 3-Tone Sunburst with chrome hardware. They also have Honey Sunburst, Black and Gold with gold hardware and other various finishes.
An Australian luthier, produced three replicas of the Red Special in 1996/97, and with permission from May, made exhaustive measuremts of the original guitar.
Solidbody E Gitarre Brian May Signature Red Special
Fryer named his three replicas John, Paul and George Burns (after two members of The Beatles and the famous American comedian). May has two of these guitars, John and George Burns; Fryer kept Paul for some years and used it for testing modified Vox AC30 amplifiers and his range of treble boosters until he sold it to a Japanese collector for an undisclosed sum. While the woods used in John and Paul are more faithful to the original, George Burns was built with New Guinea rosewood
For a more aggressive edge tonally. John is May's main back-up Red Special, and is tuned to standard. His gre Guyton has replaced George Burns for Drop D tuning duties to play Fat Bottomed Girls live.
A luthier in the UK, manufactured 50 authorised, limited edition replicas of the Red Special: 40 in red to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the guitar, and t in gre, as he had previously se a gre Guild copy that he liked.
Burns Brian May Signature Special Antique Cherry Red Electric Guitar Korean Burns Pickups And Black Switch Bm01
In the 1970s, Japanese guitar manufacturer Greco was the first company to market a line of mass produced Red Special copies, albeit unofficial and unlicsed. They did, however, sd one to May himself,
Which he used in various mimed performances the most well known being the
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