Guyton ‘Red Special’ specifications

Neck
Constructed from finest quality quartersawn Brazilian mahogany, fitted with a stainless steel truss rod, designed to be anchored and adjusted with a custom machined stainless steel adjuster, as per the original guitar.

Fingerboard
Quartersawn English oak, fitted with mother-of-pearl position markers, and fretted with Dunlop fretwire.

Nut
1960’s Bakelite.

Body
Constructed from oak and blockboard, veneered with brazilian mahogany, then bound with white celluloid binding. All electrical cavities fully copper screened.

Pickups
Burns Tri-sonics, fully re-modelled and re-wound to mimic the differences in Brian’s own pickups.

Tuners
Schaller back locking tuners, fitted with modified Gotoh pearloid buttons.

Bridge
Custom machined aluminium blocks, fitted with stainless steel rollers. The whole assembly is then shimmed, fitted and grounded as per original.

Tremolo
The block is machined from a mild steel block, it is then fitted with a custom built tremolo arm assembly, androcks on a hardened steel knife edge, which is anchored to the oak centre section as per original. The custom made springs are then located on the block with machined brass ferrules. The whole assembly is then finished with a reshaped parchment tremolo arm knob.

Switches
3 pickup selector switches and 3 phase reversal switches. These switches are very heavily modified switchcraft items. Firstly to maintain correct switch spacing, the chassis of the switch has to be altered and modified to accept new switch plates. The switch tips are then replaced with custom machined items to replicate the size and feel of the originals. These are then mounted to an aluminium chassis plate that’s shaped and fixed like the original guitar.

Pots
To get the true BM sound, the pots have to have the correct value and taper, and also to have a loose, yet quality feel. With manufacturing tolerances of +/- 20%, omly a few of the 220k pots fall in to the correct value. All the pots used are individually tested to make sure they meet the correct spec. These are then mounted to an aluminium control plate, and fitted with custom machined control knobs.

Pickguards
The pickguard, pickup surrounds, trem cover and truss rod cover are all constructed from black Perspex, with the thickness being machined to match the original parts. All the Perspex parts are then bevelled or rounded off and finely polished.

Finish
After being stained, the whole guitar is finished in the same type of 2-pack finish used on the original guitar.