Brain May body design

[dmraco]

How far off is a LPS from the original Brian May shape?  It looks like the lower horn is shaved just a bit./

 

[hannaugh]

Different headstock too.

 

[dmraco]

that is what I thought...

I would really like to do my own personal spin on one of these.

 

[Nando Vallart]

LPS flattop with flying v headstock and a little work you can have it!

 

[hannaugh]

You have to do the crazy electronics and the cool pickguard! 

 

[dmraco]

I was not going to do an exact...I was thinking a bigsby with some p-90s...

I am not 100% on the V headstock...can someone photoshop one on an LPS??

 

[vtpcnk]

what's that tremolo on the BM?

i think guild made some of these guitars years back.

 

[jimh]

Brian May made the trem.  He made everything on the entire guitar except the switches and the pickups

 

[hannaugh]

I heard that the springs in the tremolo were from an old bicycle seat and that the body was made out of an old fireplace frame. 

 

[m4rk0]

I was not going to do an exact...I was thinking a bigsby with some p-90s...

I am not 100% on the V headstock...can someone photoshop one on an LPS??

No need to photoshop

http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=4698.0

 

[dmraco]

looks good marko...I think it would look good.  I would just want to file the top and corners of the headstock to make it a little more compact.

 

[hannaugh]

That guitar is wicked cool.  I like it with the V headstock.

 

[NLD09]

That guitar is wicked cool.  I like it with the V headstock.

+1 very classy.

 

[mayfly]

I heard that the springs in the tremolo were from an old bicycle seat and that the body was made out of an old fireplace frame. 

Actually, the springs in the trem are motorycle valve springs.  From an old triumph.  and the trem arm is a knitting needle.  This is just to strange for me to make it up.

If someone actually goes and gets triumph springs for their Brian May guitar - I'd say that's really hardcore!

 

[Death by Uberschall]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special

 

[hannaugh]

I heard that the springs in the tremolo were from an old bicycle seat and that the body was made out of an old fireplace frame. 

Actually, the springs in the trem are motorycle valve springs.  From an old triumph.  and the trem arm is a knitting needle.  This is just to strange for me to make it up.

If someone actually goes and gets triumph springs for their Brian May guitar - I'd say that's really hardcore!

Yeah, that would be pretty crazy.

 

[Mor Paul]

Hey, Red Special has toneworms.

 

[OzziePete]

How far off is a LPS from the original Brian May shape?  It looks like the lower horn is shaved just a bit./

Close.... but if you look at the BM guitar, the horns are more vertical than the LPS.

I've had thoughts on this type of guitar too, using the flat top LPS as the template.

Those Burns pickups, wired in series with phase options, are probably what makes the Brian May tone (along with a hell of a lot of dense wood like Oak and baseball bat size neck profile! ).

I believe he got the Burns pickups mainly because they were all that was available at the time for a reasonable price- he had originally wound his own.

The Burns pickups have a certain bell-like ring to them, and I am wondering what a pure clean tone Jaguar pickup (they also have a clean bell-like tone) would sound like, if given the wiring set up the BM guitars have? I'm guessing that wired in series a Jag pickup would start to resemble an angry Strat tone and the phase comparisons would be interesting to hear.  :icon_scratch:

The reason I thought of the Jag pickups is that getting your hands on Burns pickups is hard out here in Australia, and probably just as hard in the US. :dontknow:

WillyK's guitar is an excellent representation of what can be achieved using Warmoth parts.

 

[whitebison66]

I never noticed before, but the bridge pickup on the Red Special is right up next to the bridge. A truly 'treble' pickup!

 

[clearerphish]

what is up with the fret inlays on that guitar (the May one)?