Hey all,
Recently, I purchased a nice Burny RSG off Reverb for a good price and now I'm wondering about it's exact make and model, seller assumed first 70's and then 80's. It's features are:
-Three piece mahogany body with a center seam joining the two main pieces together along with a small third "uh-oh the two halves are slightly too small" piece in the lower right of the body. Late sixties style shallow beveling.
-Seemingly one piece mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and medium jumbo frets, no fret nibs and a volute at the back of the headstock, which angle seems to be 14 degrees. Nut width is about 40mm/1.5748 inches and the profile is pretty slim. Full Gibson-style crown inlay on headstock and Gibson style wide bevel bell TRC, not sure if original. It's joined to the body with a '66 style neck heel and a short tenon.
-Standard MiJ metric ToM bridge and tailpiece, eg. M4 bridge posts drilled straight into body.
-Standard SG-style control layout, original knobs were early sixties top hat style but I switched them for witch hats. Electronics cavity is the larger type but not fully rounded like on actual late sixties Gibson as well as usual Burny copies.
-Large "batwing" pickguard with two humbuckers. Pickup routing is like for a small pickguard though.
-Tuners have been replaced by Grovers at some point, not sure if originally was for 10mm tuners.
On paper looks like a RSG-75 '69 or the Angus Young AY model from the 80's, but the 70's style features like the volute and small neck are unlike those models judging from Burny's catalogs.
For other identifying features, the bridge and tailpiece both read SG BRIDGE/TAILPIECE MADE IN JAPAN under them.
Neck pickup has no markins so hard to say is it a VH1, can't measure DCR at the moment. Bridge has been replaced by a '57 Classic Plus at some point.
There's a small number in the neck pocket that reads 70911 along with a possible incomprehensible final character. There are no other serial numbers on the guitar.
Pots have some markins; JNOBLE 15A/B500Kohm
Here are some pictures: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ce3u1ctk0vlvgdk/AAC1M5ZqbRz5XS9d5mL6V1Xwa?dl=0 (don't mind the missing bridge pickup controls)
And here's the only similar model I found on sale online: https://www.digimart.net/cat1/shop3100/DS04134619/
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Recently, I purchased a nice Burny RSG off Reverb for a good price and now I'm wondering about it's exact make and model, seller assumed first 70's and then 80's. It's features are:
-Three piece mahogany body with a center seam joining the two main pieces together along with a small third "uh-oh the two halves are slightly too small" piece in the lower right of the body. Late sixties style shallow beveling.
-Seemingly one piece mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and medium jumbo frets, no fret nibs and a volute at the back of the headstock, which angle seems to be 14 degrees. Nut width is about 40mm/1.5748 inches and the profile is pretty slim. Full Gibson-style crown inlay on headstock and Gibson style wide bevel bell TRC, not sure if original. It's joined to the body with a '66 style neck heel and a short tenon.
-Standard MiJ metric ToM bridge and tailpiece, eg. M4 bridge posts drilled straight into body.
-Standard SG-style control layout, original knobs were early sixties top hat style but I switched them for witch hats. Electronics cavity is the larger type but not fully rounded like on actual late sixties Gibson as well as usual Burny copies.
-Large "batwing" pickguard with two humbuckers. Pickup routing is like for a small pickguard though.
-Tuners have been replaced by Grovers at some point, not sure if originally was for 10mm tuners.
On paper looks like a RSG-75 '69 or the Angus Young AY model from the 80's, but the 70's style features like the volute and small neck are unlike those models judging from Burny's catalogs.
For other identifying features, the bridge and tailpiece both read SG BRIDGE/TAILPIECE MADE IN JAPAN under them.
Neck pickup has no markins so hard to say is it a VH1, can't measure DCR at the moment. Bridge has been replaced by a '57 Classic Plus at some point.
There's a small number in the neck pocket that reads 70911 along with a possible incomprehensible final character. There are no other serial numbers on the guitar.
Pots have some markins; JNOBLE 15A/B500Kohm
Here are some pictures: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ce3u1ctk0vlvgdk/AAC1M5ZqbRz5XS9d5mL6V1Xwa?dl=0 (don't mind the missing bridge pickup controls)
And here's the only similar model I found on sale online: https://www.digimart.net/cat1/shop3100/DS04134619/
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.