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On EBay recently from ishibashimusic Japan was this 'Burns Bison'! I emailed them concerning its real identity and after thanking me by email they promptly removed it from auction -no doubt it will re-appear in the near future correctly named.

Pics for ref, a 'Marvin S' in colours I have not previously seen.

Any comments?

More pics:

Looks like a custom shop job, Bill, probably from the 90's or early 2000's.

All the best,

Nick

What a great looking Marvin a friend of mine has a S type Atlantis custom shop SN 001 Sea Blue burst curly maple top lovely guitars

Looks nice!

Hank sig. on trem plate, but 'Legend' neck plate suggests a custom job, or what?

George

I saw the Atlantis up for sale a while ago. Did your friend buy it?

All the best,

Nick

No my best friend owned it from new and still does it was our idea during a gig ( Atlantis being my fav Shadows track .He commisioned that guitar from Barry Gibson ( Atlantis and the sea etc the top looks like the ocean ) and i think that it was fitted with a NOS burns neck with AAAA maple fretboard i also remember that his name is also engraved on the rear neck plate . Lovely sound really open and deep we used to play as a duo covering Shadows numbers etc and it used to be brought out quite often .But the best burns i have ever heard or played was his Duck Egg Blue Drifter one special guitar

George Geddes wrote:Looks nice!

Hank sig. on trem plate, but 'Legend' neck plate suggests a custom job, or what?

George

As George correctly suggests, it isn't really a Marvin. It's a Legend. The Marvin wasn't officially reintroduced until 2004 when the Anniversary models were released.

Is that a left-handed tremolo arm?

JN

You're right, Jim, it is a l/h trem. And a Legend would not have Hank's sig. on the plate... Hmmm.

George

George Geddes wrote:...a Legend would not have Hank's sig. on the plate... Hmmm.

George

Some... er... do...

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse, squire...

JN