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Andy Brauer Burst R9

Entre 2008 et 2010, Slash a eu un gros coup de coeur pour une guitare ayant appartenu au luthier Andy Brauer.

En effet, en 2007, Slash a fait refretter sa principale guitare, la Les Paul Derrig. Pendant ce temps, il joua sur la guitare d'Andy Brauer.
Une fois la guitare refrettée, Slash était aux anges d'avoir retrouvé sa guitare mais demanda à Brauer comment se fait il que la guitare qu'il lui pretta sonne si bien.
Andy effectua des modifications sur cette guitare R9, à savoir le remplacement des pièces d'origines par des pièces vintage. Brauer refusa de lui vendre au début mais céda finalement contre une grosse somme d'argent.
On peut apercevoir Slash avec cette guitare entre 2007 et 2010.
La guitare est en vérité une Reissue d'une Holy grail de '59, Les Paul Standard.

Andy: “I installed vintage tuners and replaced knobs, toggle tip and truss cover with genuine 1950s Gibson parts…tslash france andy brauer r9 les paul standart holy grail 59 bauer bursthe pickup rings, jack plate and pickguard were changed to Vintage Clone.

“This R9 has Sheptone PAF pickups. Another tonal improvement: I installed vintage Sprague bumblebee capacitors.”

We can all understand that the pickups and caps will result in a tonal improvement. But how about the rest? I mean, would anyone seriously want old tuners? According to an interview with Andy in the January ‘09 Vintage Guitar magazine, the answer is yes. Some excerpts:

> “Much like old wood, old plastic has a timbre you can hear if you tap it with your finger.  Changing the rings and pickguard for vintage-clone plastic will help tone.”

> “slash france andy brauer r9 les paul standart holy grail 59 bauer burstMany modern guitars are assembled with ‘lock-in’ bushings – metal rings that go through the hole in the headstock into which the tuner post slides. These compress and inhibit the transfer of sound from the string to the guitar.”

> Plus there’s the surgical tubing trick.


Andy has some pics of a Brauer-improved Les Paul on his MySpace page, as well as pics of the VG interview – which you can read if you get close enough to the screen.

Re: the pickups, the Sheptone pickups Andy is referring to presumably are the AB (for Andy Brauer) Customs, which Sheptone owner Jeff (last name?) calls a variation on his Tribute set. Here are the specs:

Specs, AB Custom Set
2 conductor – stock
Output – lead 8.30 K
Output – neck 8.10 K
> Andy sells these for $289 per pair, which includes a choice of nickel or gold covers, aged or new and aged comes with four aged screws.
> Sheptone sells these for $249 per pair ($125 single), but only in black, zebra or reverse zebra.

Specs, Tribute Standard Set (PAF “clone”) slash france andy brauer r9 les paul standart holy grail 59 bauer burst

2 conductor – stock
Output – lead (7.99) K – 8.00 K
Output – neck 7.62 K
> These are $269 per pair, same choices, from Andy.
> From Sheptone they are $229 per pair (same three options as above), $125 single.

These pickup prices may look expensive, but are about the same as Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups.

The bottom line is when it comes to the Brauer Burst: Slash loved it so much that he eventually wrangled it from Andy – for a pretty penny, I bet. As Andy has written, “I originally owned that LP, Slash owns it now and it has become his favorite/main guitar. I’m like a proud papa to that LP burst.”

source: Woodytone !

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