Hi,
last autumn I bought a Burny Super Grade supposedly from 1983 and MIJ. As I hadn't done my research properly, I believed the guy who sold it to me, but after some closer inspection and googling I realised not everything was as it should be.
First of all, the trussrod cover has got three screws and the ridges on the side. Second, the body is three-piece, and the neck is a two-piece neck. Third, when I brought the guitar to a guitar tech to get it intonated a month ago (yes, all too late!) the bridge appears to have been mounted some millimetres too close to the neck, making it impossible to intonate the low e-string 100% without relocating the bridge. Fourth, the fingerboard/neck is put on in a hurry, according to the same guitar tech, making it hard not to get dead spots on the 19.-22. frets. At least when the frets are filed down evenly. He would have to file a lot of the uppermost frets to get away with the last dead spots...
I have some pics here:
http://www.restless.no/Members/larseko/burny-lp59-sg1983/
My question is what did I actually buy here? Alright, the guitar works and plays alright, but I find it annoying that I can't intonate it and have dead spots or what you call it. Is this actually made in Korea? A bad batch? Of course, I paid quite an amount for this guitar because I believed it to be a Japan model, as I'm not a very experienced player.
last autumn I bought a Burny Super Grade supposedly from 1983 and MIJ. As I hadn't done my research properly, I believed the guy who sold it to me, but after some closer inspection and googling I realised not everything was as it should be.
First of all, the trussrod cover has got three screws and the ridges on the side. Second, the body is three-piece, and the neck is a two-piece neck. Third, when I brought the guitar to a guitar tech to get it intonated a month ago (yes, all too late!) the bridge appears to have been mounted some millimetres too close to the neck, making it impossible to intonate the low e-string 100% without relocating the bridge. Fourth, the fingerboard/neck is put on in a hurry, according to the same guitar tech, making it hard not to get dead spots on the 19.-22. frets. At least when the frets are filed down evenly. He would have to file a lot of the uppermost frets to get away with the last dead spots...
I have some pics here:
http://www.restless.no/Members/larseko/burny-lp59-sg1983/
My question is what did I actually buy here? Alright, the guitar works and plays alright, but I find it annoying that I can't intonate it and have dead spots or what you call it. Is this actually made in Korea? A bad batch? Of course, I paid quite an amount for this guitar because I believed it to be a Japan model, as I'm not a very experienced player.