I owned a Guild BHM... 1985, fixed bridge/tailpiece (no trem) referred to as the "Special", and a set (rather than Brian's bolt-on) neck. SHORT short scale... frets get close really fast, and string tension is low... doesn't take banjo strings to bend notes to the moon.
Most don't recognize how 'different' Brian's "Red Special" is from any other electric guitar... it has a classical guitar neck profile both on back, and on front... between that, and Brian's HUGE hands, it's easy to see (at least, when playing the BHM) why things Brian was playing... was so difficult for anyone else to manage.
Of course, he built his guitar in his dad's garage, from leftover pieces of whatever hardwoods he had on hand... an old fireplace mantel, a chair, a table... The fretboard didn't have a rosewood fingerboard, it was another piece of oak... all the edging was cut from plastic they had around, and made the bridge from a piece of aluminum cut from some old piece of mil surplus equipment, and fitted with the rollers (that I assume you're manufacturing) and the tremolo string-block used a knife blade as a pivot, with a couple exhaust valve springs.
I'm thinkin', though, that if Brian had any of Tracy's air cylinders, he might'a found'a way to incorporate them in that unique guitar for something...
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