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Burns Guitars London's policy of continual
development and refinement reflects a constant quest to
realise our vision of the ideal electric guitar.
JAMES
ORMSTON BURNS (1925 - 1998) has often been described as the
'British Leo Fender' a well-deserved and apt title because
there are many parallels to be drawn between the two men.
Jim
Burns too was very much a pioneer, and his policy of continual
development and refinement reflected a constant quest to
realise his vision of the ideal electric guitar.
Distinctive
design ideas were more than matched by accompanying hardware
and circuitry and although some such aspects bordered on
gimmickry, others offered genuine innovation, and have become
accepted concepts, later to be claimed as firsts by other,
more illustrious conveniently forgetful makers...
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Burns 50th Anniversary all Gold Dream model is a
special model that has been produced to celebrate 50
years of Burns London (1960 to 2010).
Only 50 will be made
of this 50th Anniversary model as a strictly limited
edition. It has a hand-signed and numbered certificate
of authenticity and features the new Rez-o-Matik®
Noiseless ENR pickups.
- Body and matching
neck in gold metallic
- Ebony Fingerboard
with tortoise edge binding
- 22 frets
- Gold Hardware
with 50th anniversary engraving
- Locking machine
heads
- Gold effect
pick-guards
- Rez-o-Matik
noiseless ENR pickups
- Push pull pickup
selector
- 5 way selector
switch
- Master volume
- 3 x tone controls
- Locking strap
nuts
- Fitted case
- Certificate of
authenticity
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| Burns®
London has released the new Apache Noiseless Special
guitar, which has an Alder Body finished in White
Polyester or Transparent Red,
It has 5 Star
figured Maple neck with Ebony Fingerboard and Pearl
Binding, the word Apache inlaid in mother or pearl in
the 12th fret.
It comes with Burns®
Rez-o-Matik® Noiseless Pickups and has the Apache
symbol engraved on the Rez-o-Tube® tremolo plate.
- Alder Body
finished in White Polyester or Transparent Red
- 5 Star figured
Maple neck with Ebony Fingerboard and Pearl
Binding, the word Apache inlaid in mother or pearl
in the 12th fret
- Pearl Pick-guards
- 22 Frets
- Burns®
Rez-o-Matik® Noiseless Pickups
- Gold hardware
- Burns® locking
machine heads
- Locking strap
nuts
- Apache symbol
engraved on the Rez-o-Tube® tremolo plate
- Burns® Fitted
case
- Leather Burns®
Strap
- Leather tool kit
- Warranty card
- Burns® duster
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Dream guitar was designed as a Burns flagship model to
celebrate our 50th anniversary and to satisfy the many
requests of our customers for a more versatile
professional guitar. The main features of the Dream
model are the figured maple top and figured maple neck
22 frets instead of the standard 21.
Available in three
finishes: Trans Red, Trans Blue and Red-burst.
Fitted with the new
noiseless Rez-o-Matik Pickups designed by our chief
engineer Mr Alan Entwistle. These pickups have taken
Alan over two years to develop and were originally
intended for our 2007 Apache series.
- Figured maple
body top
- Figured maple
neck
- 22 frets
- Noiseless
Rez-o-Matik pickups (designed by Alan Entwistle)
- Original sixties
style black Traffolite laminated pick-guards
- Gold hardware
- Bass wood body
finished in white polyester
- 5 Star figured
maple neck
- Pearl binding
- Custom figured
maple top
- Black pick-guards
- 22 frets
- Burns® locking
machine heads
- Locking strap
nuts
- Hand signed and
numbered certificate of authenticity
- Burns® fitted
case
- Leather Burns®
Strap
- Leather tool kit
- Warranty card
- Burns® duster
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Such
Burns-originated features include: the heel-less, glued-in
neck; 24-fret fingerboard, knife-edge bearing vibrato unit;
active electronics and stacked-coil pickups.
The
BURNS LONDON company is run by Barry Gibson (no relation!) but
is very much a team effort. We at Burns London have always
been big fans of Burns guitars, and we know a thing or two
about quality guitar construction as well.
We
hope you like what you see on this page, and we're always
pleased to hear from you, so if you have any questions or
comments, or you'd like to order a guitar or enquire about our
prices, then please don't hesitate to get in touch with us,
and we'll be glad to help.
You
may also be interested to know that we purchase all our
British beech and sycamore from sawmills that support the
Timber Trust Federation (TTF) Forests Forever campaign.
For
all enquiries/sales & availability; please
contact:
Email; info@burnsguitars.com
Telephone
+ 44 ( 0 ) 208 7833 638
Fax + 44 ( 0 ) 208 7833 651
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