The Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster

[Peter77]

This is one hell of a Strange guitar.
Made by the Fritz Brothers of Alabama. 3 singel coil pick ups. A 7 Switch. A push pull for doubling the Switches also on the tone controll 3 more Switches. One for a Strat sound one for a Gibson Les Paul and one Switch för most any guitar sound. Roy explaines that his prototype guitar that had a 5 Switch with the push pill and the 3 more Switches had 13 Switches as compared to only 5 Switches on a Stratocaster. Roy was Proust that you could hit every single cool from every possible angle to get the absolute best out of the guitar. It also has a fat controll which if you roll it forward gets humbucking sounds perfectly. The guitar Roy had had only a 5 Switch which he explained became with the push pull and the extra 3 Switches on the tone controle a 13 Switch guitar. The Fritz Brothers did everything from going out in their wood area to get the exact correct wood for the guitar and everything else. To Market the guitar They decided to send one to George Harrison. Only The Harrison guitar had a 7 Switch which counting as per Roy became a phenemenal 17 Switch guitar. Along. George used The Roy Buchanan guitar along with a Fender Stratocaster, a Gibson Les Paul and and electric 12 String Fender That looked like a Stratocaster to tour Japan 1991 and for a gig in England in April 1992 which would be his last gig in England. That gig was for the environment.

 

[Peter77]

 

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[Peter77]

Clapton got 2 Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster guitars and he loved them. Between takes of Tears in heaven he was playing his Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster all the time

 

[Peter77]

This guitar is similar to the Hybrid guitar Eric uses as his main guitar.
His main guitar is a hybrid of a Stratocaster and a Les Paul. He gets perfect Les Paul sounds out of the guitar with a Switch. Though the Strat sound in his signature model does not sound like a Stratocaster. It has lost the classic Strat sound.

 

[Tricone]

I remember seeing the Buchanan/Fritz Guitar adds in Guitar Player magazine back in the late 1980's/early 1990's.
Here are a few pics of RB on the gig with a Fritz.

 

[Peter77]

The Guitar George Harrison used for his tour of Japan and his English environmental gig 1992. Very Strange guitar selection for George Harrison WHOs favourite guitar was the Fender Stratocaster from 1957 untill his dead. Well The Stratocaster is on this tour But only as one out of 4 electric guitars. In school as a Young boy George Harrison was painting Fender Stratocasters in the classroom instead of listening to the teacher. In 1957 he went with his mum to buy a Fender Stratocaster, But there was not one Fender Stratocaster in the whole of Liverpool because ofantligt embargo with US. Thats Why George is quoted ” If I’d had it my way my first guitar would have been a Stratocaster”. He ended up with a Chechz Stratocaster copy instead. Later in Hamburg there was one Stratocaster for sake and Grorge rang the Guy up and Said I get it tomorrow. However When he got there the guitarist from Rory Storm and the Hurricanes had already bought it. As George explains in the deffinite Fender Stratocaster book ” I was so chocked it was gone it scarred Me for the rest of my life”. In December 1964 he finally gets his Fender Stratocaster and 80 % of the Beatles songs are played by a Stratocaster by George.

 

[BB]

Yikes! I know Roy used a JC120 at times... but is it just me, or does it look weird seeing that behind him instead of a Fender? Nice guitar, but an EMG loaded three pickup tele also looks weird in his arms.

 

[Peter77]

 

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[ChazFromCali]

Random RB comment: That Dancing On The Edge album with Delbert McClinton is a GREAT record.

 

[loudboy]

Yikes! I know Roy used a JC120 at times... but is it just me, or does it look weird seeing that behind him instead of a Fender? Nice guitar, but an EMG loaded three pickup tele also looks weird in his arms.

EMGs and a JC120... Holy Wang Chung, Batman!

 

[Peter77]

In this 3 vids Roy explains the guitar a bit better. This guitar is s protype from 1987 even if the vids are from 1988. The prototype had a 5 way selector Switch. The Harrison Roy Buchanan blues master guitar had a 7 Switch selector switch. On the first vid at about 32 minutes Roy explains the 13 Switches the guitar has. Making Harrisons a 17 Switch guitar. At about 9 minutes in the first vid Roy explains How to get the Stratocaster sound. At some Pong he explains it sounds like a cross of a Stratocaster if you have a 5 Switch it would be in the second position and a Gibson les Paul in the middle position. There is a lot of talk about Stratocasters in these 3 videos.

 

[Shorty Medlock]

You mean I bought a new mahogany Country Gentleman in 1964 based in a lie? $450 down the drain in the misguided hope that one guitar would make me as famous and wealthy as George Harrison?

Shoot... Should have know. Been fooled before when I bought that damn Beatle wig...

Love me do my ass...

 

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[Controller]

I used heat (put it in the oven) and clamps to cure back-bow on a cheapo RW fretboard / maple neck as an experiment. What did I have to lose? It worked and held.