Red Special

  • Ex-Queen Roadie Peter Hince (Ratty) answers your questions…

    Many of you Queen fans will be familiar with the name Peter Hince (or Ratty as he was affectionately referred to). Peter is releasing his new book ‘Queen Unseen’ in early October. As the head of Queen’s road crew and studio equipment supervisor from the early 70s through to ’86, this book is an insiders [...]

  • Update 18-05-2011 –

    Guitarist Magazine takes delivery of a Deacy Monday 9th May I popped into Guitarist to drop off a KAT Deacy, my own Burns Red Special and a Treble Booster for Simon Bradley to get his dirty paws over. I first mentioned the Deacy project to Simon back in January this year and he’s been chomping [...]

  • How to achieve the Brian May sound (Excerpt from Newsletter 08/2010)

    This article is not only aimed at those looking to achieve the Brian May sound, but hopefully will give non BM fans some inspiration on how to achieve their individual tones by taking aspects of his rig and incorporating it within your own setup.

  • 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 [...]