by kenngordon » Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:41 pm
Hi ok here goes the history of the Burns Zodiac, in 2000/2001 Burns decided that they wanted a "More Rock" type of Professional guitar. So they came up with a design and then farmed out the build for prototypes to Patrick Eggle. They made THREE one in See Thru Red, One in See thru Black Cherry and One in Honey Burst.
These were all made to a super high quality. Using Brazilian Mahogany for the back of the body and a solid bookmatched AAAA Grade fancy maple Cap. The Tuners were Sperzel locking, and the guitar like a lot of Burns Guitars had a zero fret. The neck is made from Hard Rock maple and it bears the "Steer" style headstock two of the prototypes were to have Indian Ebony fingerboards and one with a Maple fingerboard. The necks had the Baldwin Vintage "Geared Adjustment" style Truss Rod. 22 super Jumbo stainless steel frets, Mother of pearl inlays with Oak Leaf inlays at the 12th fret. Then a Pair of Split Coil custom Seymour Duncan Pickups. The USA "The Point Classic" Tremolo. One Volume and Two Tone Controls along with a three way blade style pickup selector. all of this was loaded into a Custom Burns branded Hiscox shaped hard case. This model was supposed to enter into the Custom Elite Series of UK Made Guitars. if I can help any further please let me know