1st Burns guitar help?

[JimN]

In my opinion - if Shadows music is your thing, then go for the 64 Marvin or Apache...

What he said...

JN

[Bojan]

I was having the same dilemma choosing a new Burns; I'd owned a couple of reissue Marvins but nothing with Tri-sonics since my '62 Short scale Jazz, so I went for a Shadow which should be arriving tomorrow. I wanted a different tonal flavour to my Strats-the Tri-sonics being a bit richer and darker.

Andrew, I would be very interested in hearing your impressions about the Shadow when you have had time to put it through its paces . . .

Bojan

[snakestretcher52]

Bojan, unfortunately I was quite disappointed and I'm returning the guitar. I did not have an opportunity to try the guitar first as I don't have a dealer near me so I bought it mail-order. It arrived with a few scratches, the specified Grover locking tuners turned out to be a non-locking Burns logo'd generic variety, the tremolo block rubbed against the side of the poorly-routed cavity, I couldn't get the bridge to sit at the same height on both the bass and treble sides no matter what I did and there was a bit of a twist in the neck!
I hope this was an isolated example but I'm not going to take the chance of having another with the same issues unless I can play it first.

[Bojan]

Oh, that's a shame !!! Well, thanks, now I know that I will avoid that particular model!

[René]

Hi Bojan.

I think, Stan is referring to the new Marquee Pro, which has "Custom Elite" written on the neck plate.

Cheers

René

[Bojan]

But then that doesn't make sense because the Custom Elite series is the best and most expensive in the whole range of Burns guitars . . .

[René]

Well, Bojan.. I´ll try to upload some close up pics tomorrow night...
until then, have a nice wednesday.

Best regards

René

[Nick Allan]

I think, perhaps confusingly, that the "custom" range, rather than the "custom elite" is the top of the Burns range, and more expensive.

All the best,

Nick.

[Bojan]

No, Nick, I just checked on the Burns London website and it's (from top to bottom): "Custom Elite," "Custom," and "Club Series" . . . So, a "Custom Elite" Burns at £550 ? That would really be nice!

[Nick Allan]

Hi Bojan,
What you say about the order in which the different categories of Burns are put on the website is correct, but the custom models are considerably more expensive than the Custom Elite. I have 3 custom models, and they were all at least £2,000 each when I bought them a few years ago.

When I made enquiries about another custom model some months ago, I was looking at £2,500 (about the price of the original Apache limited edition when I bought it - top of the range at the time, with a diamond set into the tremolo arm). I hate to think what my custom doublesix would cost now.

So it is confusing, because of the title "Custom Elite" and the way they are arranged on the site, but experience would indicate that the custom models are the top end - although one wonders what the manufacturing differences may be - possibly not a lot - but with a custom model you should get more choice of colour and other options, one would suppose.

All the best,

Nick