Brian May Red Special BASS!

[3V17C]

Local guitar builder Guyton Guitars has for a while been producing official Brian May Red Special guitars, but seems he's made a bass version too! I'm not a big queen fan, but its quite nice and pretty unique...

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[skankdelvar]

Now that's interesting

[BarnacleBob]

That is pretty cool! Reminds me of a Dan Armstrong!

BB

[lemmywinks]

That's actually really nice, the shape seems more suited to bass too!

Maybe Brian was a closet bass hero relegated to guitar by Deacy's outrageous shorts............

[Happy Jack]

Very retro & pretty cool.

[3V17C]

[quote name='dave.c' post='499793' date='May 28 2009, 12:58 PM']I tried a Gibson SG inspired bass he made for a local player and it was superb, if I ever get the money together for a custom build I would have one made![/quote]

that'll be Big Al's one with the maltese cross inlays?!

[Eight]

Does this mean a load of people in Asia are currently missing their fireplaces?

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice it wasn't made in Asia.

Edited May 28, 2009 by Eight

[EBS_freak]

That's cool! I like. Not sure I would have chosen that as a neck pickup but either way, I'd quite like one!!

[cetera]

Ooh! That's nice

Kinda like an old Ovation bass....

Any price guide on this?

[tayste_2000]

Looks shortscale am I right?

[Bassassin]

That reminds me of old Uncle Ned:

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Now forever to be known as the Ned Special?

/coat.

Jon.

[thisnameistaken]

Looks better than his guitar!

I'm surprised, I thought this would be minging.

[neepheid]

Would have looked better without the mudbucker - stick to the Burns Tri-sonic (or equivalent), 2 or 3 of them would have looked much better, and much closer to the guitar version it's trying to ape.

[Dubs]

Looks a bit odd to me, I'm not really a fan of it.

[Buzz]

Interesting choice of the Gibbo 3 point bridge on it, considering it's not very good.

[greyparrot]

[quote name='3V17C' post='499782' date='May 28 2009, 12:52 PM']Local guitar builder Guyton Guitars has for a while been producing official Brian May Red Special guitars, but seems he's made a bass version too! I'm not a big queen fan, but its quite nice and pretty unique...

[url="http://img43.imageshack.us/my.php?image=redspecialbass.jpg"][/url]


peace

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Hmm looks more like a les paul than a les paul! Looks fantastic build quality.

[Machines]

Hmm, that seems to work actually !

Brian May is a fantastic bassist and has been an example to me for many years now.

[Golchen]

I concur, that works really well!

[JPAC]

Are those inlays in the right places?

[josh3184]

well there's a double on the 7th and 19th which isn't usual but the 12th is correct. Who doesn't want to know where their 7th fret is?

[steve-soar]

[quote name='JPAC' post='500390' date='May 28 2009, 11:08 PM']Are those inlays in the right places?[/quote]
What do you think?

[JPAC]

It's not what I'm used to.

[12stringbassist]

I don't like the bridge at all.
Gibson bridges generally suck.

The rest of it looks nice.

[allighatt0r]

[quote name='Buzz' post='500029' date='May 28 2009, 04:53 PM']Interesting choice of the Gibbo 3 point bridge on it, considering it's not very good.[/quote]

What bridge would you put on it? Something like a bent tin fender or a big chunky modern looking thing would just not fit the bass look...

[Buzz]

[quote name='allighatt0r' post='501298' date='May 29 2009, 10:47 PM']What bridge would you put on it? Something like a bent tin fender or a big chunky modern looking thing would just not fit the bass look...[/quote]

I think a Hipshot Model A type would look brilliant on it. Possibly would consider a Hipshot Supertone as well.