Burns Artist bass

[Billyboygretsch]

https://app.box.com/s/iembijg554t97a66wvys
This is the Box link for my Artiste Bass refinishing pictures I think

[Billyboygretsch]

Hey this works thanks Ecca for putting me on to iy

[Billyboygretsch]

Just picked up another Artiste Bass. When they do turn up they seem to sell for a lower price than the short scale sonic bass. Not sure why, as in my opinion, they are a much rarer better playing and better looking bass than the Sonic. Still bully for me I've got 2 now

[Billyboygretsch]

I have drooled over these pics since receiving them. Can recognise the Artiste de luxe bass with what looks like a clear secondary guard compared to the one with the brass plate.
The second bass pic looks like a transition between using the de luxe switching and controls and the Bison body. I have never seen one like this and hope Paul will comment on it. Thanks to Paul Day for sending them.
Have put up a brass secondary de luxe bass to compare
Sorry about the file size but can't get them any lower

[dusty fretz]

The Artist Deluxe bass is partnered by a pic of the prototype Bison four-string. This earliest example followed in the footsteps of the four-pickup Bison guitar, employing similar styling and the same construction, complete with a heel-less, glued-in neck/body joint. Note other shared features, such as the 'cigar-tube' tuner cover and Ultra-Sonic pickups, although the electrics were more akin to those on the Artist Deluxe. The bridge/tailpiece was also as per the latter, but unusual touches included the white-button Van Gent machine heads, wooden thumb-rest up near the neck, a body-mounted mute device clamped on the strings at the bridge, what looks to be a truss-rod cover aft of the nut and a 23-fret ebony fingerboard. The end result was very unlike the eventual Bison bass design, and also differed to the next prototype that appeared alongside the four-pick Bison guitar in the 1962 Rose-Morris catalogue, although this second version incorporated aspects of its predecessor and the eventual production model.

[Billyboygretsch]

Try this