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The Red Special – New Picture #3

Some more relics that were considered for inclusion in the book ‘Brian May’s Red Special’.

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(c) Simon Bradley/TheRedSpecial.com

(c) Simon Bradley/TheRedSpecial.com

The small brown box just below the glass is labelled ‘Bri’s Continuity Tester c. 1959’, while just to the left of the laptop is a plastic bag labelled ‘Red wooden dot taken from Red Special – 5th fret marker’ on 15th January 1998, presumably by Greg Fryer.

There’s also a box of homemade tools including the ‘template for fretboard curvature’, a collection of pickup surrounds, some modern Burns bass Tri-Sonics and a further box of screws and wires that were replaced on 3rd June 1998 during repairs, again, we presume, by Greg Fryer.

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Don’t miss Simon’s six-part blog that goes behind the scenes of the book in much more detail

For part one click here
For part two click here
For part three click here
For part four click here
For part five click here
For part six click here

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