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The neck is mahogany, but the neck goes under the first and middle pick ups. The rest of the body is blockboard with a huge chamber on the top half of the body from strap button to strap button and a smaller banana shaped one between the control cavity and tremolo. There is a third chamber where the trem springs are, about the size of a fist, most of this chamber has plywood on top and the remainder has a perspex cover over the springs. The control cavity is also cavernous. The guitar was designed as a semi-acoustic but he bottled it when it came to putting the F hole in. There are mahogany veneers on top to make this jigsaw of a guitar look like it's one piece of wood.
As you say the book is fantastic, especially the X-rays. the level of thought that went in to it means to me that Brian and Harold May should have an equal credit in pioneering guitar construction as anyone else such as Grover Jackson & Ibanez. In my mind the Red Special is the original superstrat although I always think it looks like a long lost Gibson prototype.
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https://i.imgur.com/u7uFSHi.jpg made this Strat hardtail body from oak a few years ago, quite weighty' darker tone than your average HH fender though.
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