Sorry I'm so slow on the uptake but I've just looked on the Burns site with the glorious D6 Apache. (Last year's model now!) Please closely check out the headstock pic as it looks like it's strung with the original style of octave down strings - like Hank's first. See how the strings are massively "necked down" at the pegs? Definitely not 10s or 12s!! The photo is only slightly larger than life-size and just look at those tree trunk bass strings!! See the bridge/trem end too - PHEW! - they are bigguns!
I spoke to Barry G years ago on the phone and asked him if he ever intended to produce the bass-tuned D6 - he said "If there's a demand". I posted a thread on the site at the time asking people to write in! Obviously there's no mention of it re: the Apache so I guess I'll have to find out from the horse's mouth, or has someone already done that? If it's the 12-string bass, as Hank used to call it, then I absolutely MUST have one, even if it breaks the bank!! Or have I missed something here? (Haven't logged on since about last October so I deserve a slap!)
Cheers, Lionel