Tips on how to maintain your Brian May Red Special style guitar

• Cleaning your Guitar Fretboard using the Jim Dunlop Fingerboard Kit

  If you haven’t noticed already, there are a number of new videos uploaded on the A Strings website and Youtube channel. In this ‘how to’ video, I clean the fretboard of a Burn Brian May Red Special using the Jim Dunlop 6502 Fingerboard Kit. The before/after shots shows exactly how effective this product is. If [...]

• Bridge

  Each string has its own separate bridge piece. The roller bridge might be fitted with one piece rollers or a roller and separate axle. There are five slots in which the one piece roller (or roller and axle) will locate to adjust intonation. Intonation adjustment of the roller bridge: Intonation can be checked manually or [...]

• Nut

  The nut on the RS guitar is only a string guide. It keeps the strings equally spaced and in alignment with the tuners. Each slot is cut deeper than the zero fret in order for the strings to sit on the zero fret. The strings should not touch the bottom of the nut slots. It [...]