Last updated: 19th December 2025

Welcome to the my website and I hope that you find it interesting and informative.

The website features information and photos about the guitars, amps and pedals that I have custom handbuilt over the years since 1980.

This includes the Red Special replica guitars effect pedals and Vox AC30 amplifiers which I handmade for Brian May from 1996-2007, the Brian May/Fryer effect pedals which I handmade for general sale from 1999-2008, the ‘UK production model’ Brian May/Fryer guitar effect pedals made from 2008-2018; the Brian May Deacy Amp developed from 1998-2011; the Brian May ‘Super’ Red Special guitar developed in 2008 with Kazutaka Ijuin from Japan; and the custom handmade guitars that I built for Australian guitarist Ian Moss from 1989-1996.

Included is information about the new ‘Astronaut’ guitar which Kazutaka Ijuin at Kz Guitar Works in Japan will be producing in Japan in late 2025/early 2026. The ‘Astronaut’ guitar is my redesigned and re-imagined version of Brian May’s Red Special, designed to Fender® 25.5″ scale. The layout and switching etc has been drawn with Fender players in mind, so that they may feel at home on this instrument exploring the wonderful sound and technical innovations developed by Brian and Harold May back in the mid 1960s.

Video of the prototype Astronaut guitar being played by Davey Lane on 19th November 2025 at the ARIA Awards after ‘You Am I’ was inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame. The first song ‘Heavy Heart’ is a ballad where Davey plays an acoustic guitar, and at 3.22 the rocker called ‘Berlin Chair’ begins where Davey uses the Astronaut guitar: 

 

Please see the new video on the Kz Guitar Works YouTube channel:

At Brian May’s London Allerton Hill studio in 1998 I first began envisaging this instrument – which to my mind would be the vehicle to bring the wonderful innovations and sound of Brian and Harold’s Red Special to the wider Fender guitar playing world. In 2005 I began drawing the ‘Astronaut’ body shape and layout, and have kept on chipping away and refining the design in spare time since then. Yes this instrument has been a long time coming.

For information about the new Astronaut guitar, and for the reasons why I designed it, plus my thoughts about the greatness of Brian and Harold May’s Red Special design, please see the following pages:

Why did I design the Astronaut guitar? Short answer

Astronaut guitar description and origins

Astronaut videos

For photos and videos featuring the 3 Fryer Red Special guitars John, Paul and George Burns made in 1998 for Brian May please see the page below, as well as other Red Special pages on this website:

Greg Fryer Red Special guitars

To order Fryer guitar effect pedals please visit my webshop:

http://fryerguitars.bigcartel.com/

** Please note that as of June 2025, we are again shipping to EU countries

All the best, Greg Fryer

        

Strelly Booster 2024:

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20th February 2024:

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting Brett Kingman and chatting with him and Shaun Klinger about treble booster pedals, Red Special guitars, Deacy Amps, and many other things. Thanks Brett and Shaun for a very enjoyable visit!

The 3 amigos in Melbourne:

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The Fryer Guitars YouTube channel features videos that I have made since 2015 demonstrating equipment such as Deacy Amps replicas, Fryer pedals, Fryer Vox AC30 amp, Vox MV50 amp, and the Kz RS Jnr Hybrid guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/@gregfryer/videos

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The Fryer Guitars vinyl stickers are included with every guitar effect pedal:

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For all News, product development info, latest updates etc, please see the News page at:  https://fryerguitars.wordpress.com/news/

The News page also includes photos and videos of the 15th February 2020 ‘Queen + Adam Lambert’ Sydney concert and their headlining of the Fire Fight Australia bushfire benefit concert held on Sunday 16th Feb 2020.

Please also take a look at the ‘Romney Godden’ page which is a tribute to the legendary guitar maker and repairer who was the grand master in Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s. Romney first gave me a job in early 1980 as ‘junior guitar repairer/anything goes’, and I owe a great deal to this generous talented and extraordinarily funny man, a truly beautiful and humble person.

Romney was skilled in electrical work, electronics and guitar making/repairing, could literally build or repair anything and in the late 1970s invented most of the guitar making methods that I have carried on since then.

During 2013 sadly Romney became seriously ill and on 23rd Nov 2013 threw a ‘farewell party and gig’ to celebrate his life and to say goodbye to the many people from the many areas that he was passionately involved in.

A webpage marking Romney Godden’s prominence in the Australian guitar scene is long overdue and hopefully this will give people insight into the remarkable man that Romney was.

Making music and having a passionate interest in musical equipment are the reasons that inspired my journey of tinkering with guitar, amp and pedal making which began in the late 1970s.  I hope that people who love guitars and guitar equipment will enjoy this website.

All the best,

Greg Fryer

Fryer Guitars Australia

Pictured above is Brian May at the WWRY Sydney Premiere After Show Party 9th October 2004. In this pic  Brian is playing the Greg Fryer Red Special guitar ‘Paul’.

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Below is a list of companies to contact if you wish to buy Red Special guitars, Deacy Amps or Trisonic pickups:

Red Special guitars:

Kz Guitar Works; Kazutaka Ijuin Japan:  https://kzguitarworks.com/en/

Dansan Guitars; Mickael Dansan France: https://dansanguitars.com/

Brian May Guitars London: https://shop.brianmayguitars.co.uk/

Pickups:

Matt Netherwood Yonderbosk pickups:

https://yonderbosk.wordpress.com/sovereign-standard-specification/

Burns London Trisonic pickups:

http://www.burnsguitars.com/accessories.php

Deacy Amp replicas:

Manuel Angelini Supersonic ‘Deacy Amp’ replica:

https://doxyworld.com/

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Please note: Greg Fryer/Fryer Guitars and this website are not affiliated in any way with Brian May, Duck Productions, Queen Productions, Knight Audio Technologies, or Brian May Guitars (BMG/House Music).

Please note: Fender® Strat® Tele® and Stratocaster® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Greg Fryer/Fryer Guitars and this website are not affiliated in any way with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved 2014-2025 Greg Fryer

Please don’t use stuff from this website without permission. I may be very happy to give permission but please show a respectful attitude and ask first. And if you decide to ignore this and take it anyway, please give a credit and link to: http://fryerguitars.com thank you.

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