iVee#104 – Red Queen

Available on : https://www.destroyallguitars.com/guitars/479-ivee

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The Red Special is the electric guitar designed and built by Queen’s guitarist Brian May and his father, Harold, when Brian was a teenager in the early 1960s.
The Red Special is also sometimes referred to, by May and by others, as the Fireplace or the Old Lady. A guitar that would define May’s signature style, it was intentionally designed to feed back after he saw Jeff Beck playing live and making different sounds just by moving the guitar in front of the amp. He wanted an instrument that was going to be alive and interact with him and the air around him.
May has used the Red Special almost exclusively, including on Queen albums and in live performances since the band’s advent in the early 1970s. 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 reference to the fact that the wood used to make the neck came from a fireplace mantel.

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Type: Electric Guitar
SN: 160604
Top & back: 1.6mm Aluminum w/ Queen theme etching
Side: 1mm brass
Color: metallic red
Neck: Mahogani, medium V profile
Scale: 24″
Width: Nut=1.707″ 12th=2.028
Thickness: 1st=0.835″ 12th=0.906″
Aluminum text on back: “May she wants to break free”
Fretboard = sonokeling, 12″ radius
No. of Frets: 22 Med Frets (+fret 0)
Dot aluminum inlays w/ text: “red special salute”
Nut: graphtech tusQ, 1.466″ spacing
Head plate: Aluminum plates w/ queen member potrait etching
Machine Heads: Sperzel
Double action truss rod, Aluminum trussrod cover
Hardware: Black
Tremolo: Stetsbar ProII
Strap buttons: Diago twistlock
Pickups: Ganee Pickup “Burn 60’s”
Controls: Bourns 500K Volume & Tone Slide Pot (w/.033 @400v Russian K40Y-9)
Bourns switching
Hardcase
Weight: 4,3 Kg