Is this a Burns Bass Guitar

[Bill Bowley]

Well well!

Look what has turned up on EBay UK! Original 60s Burns Split Sound 6 string Bass Guitar. Item Number is 330521996042.

Needs some work, but here's a project for someone who wants a six string bass of a rare type!

[Bill Bowley]

.....and he also has an original scratchplate for it for sale as well!

[mgeek]

That's the second one to have come along as well- this one just sold.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Vintage- ... 3f0697dac4

I'm sort of thinking of bidding on that scratchplate, but I was more planning on restoring mine as a Vista Sonic rather than a split...hmm

[Bill Bowley]

SOLD for the pricely sum of:

Winning bid: GBP 536.00
Approximately AU $855.93


Hope it has gone to a good home, BURNS instruments from the '60s do require a 'lot of attention' IMHO!

[mgeek]

Another difference on these I haven't seen mentioned- bound necks...

Every split sound bass I've seen has had one...not sure if that's a common variation with the guitars, but mine is unbound, and I can't recall seeing a bound one that isn't a bass

[JimN]

Burns were in the process of switching to bound necks on some models just as the company was taken over by Baldwin. Just to complicate things, at least one model - the Bison - moved from having a bound neck to unbound over the same period.

JN

[mgeek]

Burns were in the process of switching to bound necks on some models just as the company was taken over by Baldwin. Just to complicate things, at least one model - the Bison - moved from having a bound neck to unbound over the same period.

JN

Interesting...

Surely the Split Sonic had been discontinued by that point though? I don't know how drawn out the switchover to bound necks was, but Baldwin took over in sept '65, and the Split/Vista Sonics were discontinued in late '64

[JimN]

I didn't say that the process started when Baldwin took over.

JN

[mgeek]

Okay, noted.