Iperfungus
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Hi guys,
I found this amazing forum while looking for more information to give a date to my Burny Les Paul.
I've got this guitar from a guy here in Italy and he tolds me he bought it on eBay from Japan and it is a RLG90 model with VH-1 pickups from late '80s or early '90s.
So far, I was convinced about the aboves but after reading Nil's Burny paper...well, I'm confused more than yesterday.... :lol:
Here we go with some pictures of the guitar:
Burny1
Burny2
Burny3
Burny4
Burny5
Cutaway
The body is a solid 3-pieces mahogany, with thick maple top and a thin book-matched flamed maple veneer.
The neck is one piece of mahogany (no separate cap) with nice rosewood fingerboard and pearl trapezoid inlays.
The binding around the fingerboard covers fret edges too (fret binding).
The Burny logo on the headstock is pearl as well.
Original tuners were plastic Kluson-like (now changed to locking Sperzels) and the original bridge you can see in the picture was a vintage style (it has been changed with a Schaller tune-o-matic due to a lack of harmonics on the high E string and problems in setting octaves).
The capacitors are small green ceramic ones, not black paper in oil ones.
The pickups have grey wires, metal coloured base plate, 4 mounting screws on the back and, as you can see, Gibson-like adjustment screws (slotted, no Phillips heads).
The tone is amazing and I don't really care, but it would be nice to know if these pickups are VH-1 or what else and if the magnet is a ceramic or AlNiCo one.
So, could it be that's a RLG90 from the late '80s or early '90s?
I can only say that from the TRC shape but....who knows?
Otherwise, what it is???
Thanks in advance for your help!!! :wink:
Max
I found this amazing forum while looking for more information to give a date to my Burny Les Paul.
I've got this guitar from a guy here in Italy and he tolds me he bought it on eBay from Japan and it is a RLG90 model with VH-1 pickups from late '80s or early '90s.
So far, I was convinced about the aboves but after reading Nil's Burny paper...well, I'm confused more than yesterday.... :lol:
Here we go with some pictures of the guitar:
Burny1
Burny2
Burny3
Burny4
Burny5
Cutaway
The body is a solid 3-pieces mahogany, with thick maple top and a thin book-matched flamed maple veneer.
The neck is one piece of mahogany (no separate cap) with nice rosewood fingerboard and pearl trapezoid inlays.
The binding around the fingerboard covers fret edges too (fret binding).
The Burny logo on the headstock is pearl as well.
Original tuners were plastic Kluson-like (now changed to locking Sperzels) and the original bridge you can see in the picture was a vintage style (it has been changed with a Schaller tune-o-matic due to a lack of harmonics on the high E string and problems in setting octaves).
The capacitors are small green ceramic ones, not black paper in oil ones.
The pickups have grey wires, metal coloured base plate, 4 mounting screws on the back and, as you can see, Gibson-like adjustment screws (slotted, no Phillips heads).
The tone is amazing and I don't really care, but it would be nice to know if these pickups are VH-1 or what else and if the magnet is a ceramic or AlNiCo one.
So, could it be that's a RLG90 from the late '80s or early '90s?
I can only say that from the TRC shape but....who knows?
Otherwise, what it is???
Thanks in advance for your help!!! :wink:
Max