One of only 40 Green BHM guitars ever produced!

In 1993 Guild teamed up again with Brian May to create a very limited number of hand built guitars that were meant to reproduce, as accurately as humanly possible, his original Red Special.  One of Brian's requirements was that he be given 2 transparent Green versions of this guitar.

Guild spared no expense building these guitars.  They hired British Airways to X-Ray the original Red Special to determine the size and placement of the hollow body chambers.  They contracted Seymour Duncan to make only 300 sets of pickups that would sound identical to the original Burns TriSonic model and the switches for phase and pickup selection.  Guild also contracted Schaller, one of the most respected German guitar parts suppliers in the world, to produce approximately 300 roller bridges and accurate red special tremolo reproductions including motorcycle valve springs! 

Because of all of this low production and high degree of customized design, the cost of the Brian May Signature model was an extraordinary $2800 in 1993.  Collectors snatched these guitars up knowing that only about 330 would ever be produced.  All of the Signatures were of exceptional quality.  Of the 330 Signatures only 40 were Transparent Green and of those only 38 hit the open market (since Brian himself took hold of 2).  That makes this baby rare. 

This guitar has woman tone like you cannot imagine and is easily one of the most versatile guitars in history.  It sounds incredible.  Each of the 3 pickups can be turned on or off individually by using the top row of switches.  The bottom row of switches are individual phase controls for each pickup.  This allows for a minimum of 22 distinctly different sounds to be achieved.  It is fair to say that this guitar can convincingly sound like virtually any electric guitar ever made.

The unusually short 24" scale length makes the guitar very easy to play as does the low profile Nickel frets.   Both the Mahogany grain and finish is very beautiful.  The Nitrocellulose finish is very thin and you can see and feel the wood grain beneath.

Here are the features:

•Select semi-hollow Honduras Mahogany body in Transparent Green color

•Schaller Tuners, Roller bridge, Knife edge tremolo w/motorcycle valve springs, chrome knobs & switches.

•Seymour Duncan hand wound Brian May pickups

•1 piece D shaped Mahogany Neck

•Polished Gaboon Ebony 24 fret fingerboard

•Bound top & back

•Switchcraft jack

•Tusq Nut

•Zero Fret

•Engraved truss rod cover

•Brian May's Signature on back of headstock

•Ultra-Thin Nitrocellulose finish