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iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104
iVee Red Queen #104

iVee Red Queen #104

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$14,500.00
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$14,500.00
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Ivan Mulia makes guitars unlike anything else out there. With workmanship that is on a level that seems almost impossible, it is apparent from the moment you are near one of these guitars that you are in the presence of magic. Yet in spite of their other worldly quality iVee guitars are clearly the products of down-to-earth passion. There's no "artisan" intimidation factor here, just honesty in its purist form. These are instruments who's deep musicality extends all the way back to the originating spark of an idea in the builder's mind. Every curve of the etchings and the placement of every fret is somehow "musical." And that's even before you plug one in or pick one up to play it.

Ivan Mulia of iVee guitars is truly Indonesia's best kept secret.

A little history of the inspiration
The Red Special is the electric guitar designed and built by Queen's guitarist Brian May and his father, Harold, when Brian was a teenager in the early 1960s. The Red Special is also sometimes referred to, by May and by others, as the Fireplace or the Old Lady. A guitar that would define May's signature style, it was intentionally designed to feed back after he saw Jeff Beck playing live and making different sounds just by moving the guitar in front of the amp. He wanted an instrument that was going to be alive and interact with him and the air around him. May has used the Red Special almost exclusively, including on Queen albums and in live performances since the band's advent in the early 1970s. The name Red Special came from the reddish-brown colour the guitar attained after being stained and painted with numerous layers of Rustins' plastic coating. The name Fireplace is a reference to the fact that the wood used to make the neck came from a fireplace mantel.

SPECS:

- SN: 160604
- Type: electric guitar
- Body, top & back: 1.6mm aluminum w/ Queen theme etching
- Body, sides: 1mm brass
- Color: metallic red
- Neck: mahogany, medium V profile
- Scale length: 24"
- Nut width: 1.707"
- neck width @12th fret: 2.028"
- Neck thickness: 0.835" @ 1st fret, 0.906" @ 12th fret
- Aluminum text on back: "may she wants to break free"
- Fretboard: sonokeling
- Radius: 12"
- No. of frets: 24
- Frets size: medium
- Dot aluminum inlays w/ text: "red special salute"
- Nut: Graphtech tusQ
- String spacing: 1.466"
- Head plate: aluminum plates w/ queen member potrait etching
- Machine heads: Sperzel
- Truss rod: double action
- Truss rod cover: aluminum
- Hardware: black
- Tremolo: Stetsbar ProII
- Strap buttons: Diago twistlock
- Pickups: Ganee Pickup Burn 60s
- Controls: Bourns 500K volume & tone slide pot w/.033@400v Russian K40Y-9 bourns switching
- Case: hardshell included