Found this Burny LP on a local (Swedish) fleabay equivalent, got a pretty good price on it and it turned out to be the best LP I've had so far. Pretty flametop, great player, brilliant open PAF-like sound from the pups. In short: it makes you wanna play "All Right Now" real bad. AND it came with an original, Burny-branded HSC.
So far, so good. But then, there are the eternal questions "exactly what?" and "at least approximately when?".
The seller, who seemed to be honest and in possession of roughly the same half-assed amount of knowledge of MIJ lore as myself labeled it "an early to mid 80's RLG-90 with L8001/8002 pickups". Some of the evidence seems to bear it out, some seems less than conclusive.
Yes, I have pics. You can (hopefully) find them here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/77b42y2ilnvul8l/EdJmOPNcjP
Sorry for the inconvenience, but there are a lot of large pics, and I've failed embedding photos here before, so please bear with me.
Quick feature rundown:
Handwritten "90" in magic marker in the neck cavity
One-piece back
Flame veneer on plain maple top
Short tenon
Silverback humbuckers with braided wire (shouldn't 8001/8002's be brass with grey wires?)
Pot codes are indistinct but seem to be "77" (hopefully visible in the pics)
Grey pio caps (original??)
Bell TRC (positioned unusually high up, but the nut seems slightly narrower than on my RLC-60 and RSA-100, maybe it's not original? If it had a christmas tree TRC from the beginning, it left no marks on the headstock)
"Luper Prade" decal in a fairly low position, with "Model" slightly higher than the lower edge of the G string tree.
90 degree pointer washers.
I would be very grateful for any input from the esteemed and informed members of this forum.
PS I managed to move the pic folder, thus killing the original link. Fixed now.
So far, so good. But then, there are the eternal questions "exactly what?" and "at least approximately when?".
The seller, who seemed to be honest and in possession of roughly the same half-assed amount of knowledge of MIJ lore as myself labeled it "an early to mid 80's RLG-90 with L8001/8002 pickups". Some of the evidence seems to bear it out, some seems less than conclusive.
Yes, I have pics. You can (hopefully) find them here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/77b42y2ilnvul8l/EdJmOPNcjP
Sorry for the inconvenience, but there are a lot of large pics, and I've failed embedding photos here before, so please bear with me.
Quick feature rundown:
Handwritten "90" in magic marker in the neck cavity
One-piece back
Flame veneer on plain maple top
Short tenon
Silverback humbuckers with braided wire (shouldn't 8001/8002's be brass with grey wires?)
Pot codes are indistinct but seem to be "77" (hopefully visible in the pics)
Grey pio caps (original??)
Bell TRC (positioned unusually high up, but the nut seems slightly narrower than on my RLC-60 and RSA-100, maybe it's not original? If it had a christmas tree TRC from the beginning, it left no marks on the headstock)
"Luper Prade" decal in a fairly low position, with "Model" slightly higher than the lower edge of the G string tree.
90 degree pointer washers.
I would be very grateful for any input from the esteemed and informed members of this forum.
PS I managed to move the pic folder, thus killing the original link. Fixed now.