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hi all i am new to this forum reason i am here is i need some parts for a Burns GB66 guitar that was left to me but needs the pickguard the volume and tone knobs and the plate at the rear of guitar .......as there is a lot of burns enthusiast on this site i wonder if any one has these spares or can point me in the direction needed
many
thanks
Mark

Alan Exley may be able to help with the back plate- you want a tortoiseshell one, and I bought one of them off him a month or two back. RE: other parts- keep an eye on ebay!

http://www.projectguitarparts.co.uk/

If you need to know what any of the parts looked like, here's a contemporary catalogue illustration.

this is my guitar but looks very different from all other burns gb 66 i have seen ......

close up

According to "Pearls and Crazy Diamonds" book yours is a GB66 De Luxe about 1965. To quote 2 An extremely rare Burns guitar,still more jazz orientated than the GB66. It is very similar to the GB66 in terms of design, but has a thicker body, Bar-o-Matik pickups and a Charlie Christian type of circuitry with tone, volume,a 3-way selector and a density control gave it a good jazz sound. The neck pick-up had two coils which were mixable by a density control. Standard finish in golden sunburst with rosewood fingerboard but other finish's,like red sunburst, were available. Some guitars had a bound fingerboard. The guitar was also made under the Baldwin banner. It was produced for just a couple of months in 1965.Retail price £143."

ala1940 wrote:According to "Pearls and Crazy Diamonds" book yours is a GB66 De Luxe about 1956. To quote 2 An extremely rare Burns guitar,still ............."

The year is 1965 (an accidental typo I'm sure).

Interestingly Mark's guitar differs from the one pictured in the book, as the one in P&CD has a one piece black plate between and surrounding the Bar magnet PU's.

Mark - Interesting guitar, I hope you will be able to find the missing parts (will be difficult/impossible), alternatively have repros custom made.
Try contacting Mr. Alan Exley at Project Guitar Parts.

Erik

sorry did you say rare ???? thanks ALA1940 for your vast information much appreciated trust me .and erik thanks as well for your comment and i know what you mean about back plate being one piece as thats the only one i have managed to find only but it was different from mine ,.......i have contacted everybody you guys have mentioned and i am waiting for reply.
for insurance purposes ....as i would never sell my gb66 that my wife calls my obsession in restored condition what might be worth >>>?
thanks again to all of you for the info in trying to restore this baby back to its glory days . much appreciated. love this forum

sorry forgot to mention something ...apart form the back plate on the back of the guitar is there anywhere else the serial number would be engraved .....as back plate has gone missing ....remember grandfather having it in a box but cant find it anywhere .

I assume you've seen this... I don't know if they were the same on the 'Deluxe' as the regular model, but isn't this a GB66 scratchplate?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BURNS-BALDWIN ... 1c36123a88

Pretty sure Alan E. does have a spare backplate now I think of it. I bought one of the two he had and I THINK the other went unsold. As for knobs, Burns still make them if he can't help.