Jim Jones said:Cool! I saw that one myself. Let us know what it's like when it arrives. You won't have to worry about putting a ding in it.
Jim
MIJvintage said:If you like SGs, you should love the Burny if it's still got the VH-1s; the older VH-1s with the black covered wires sound particularly good.
PoorMan said:MIJvintage said:If you like SGs, you should love the Burny if it's still got the VH-1s; the older VH-1s with the black covered wires sound particularly good.
It says they are VH-1s. Wire insulation looks gray...or maybe dirty clear though. LOL! I was planning to yank them, but what are the VH-1s like? PAFish?
MIJvintage said:I recently sold an old RLG-80 to a buyer in Florida and he had a Burny or two before I sold him the dark burst. He said he would likely take the stock pickups out and replace them with something better, possibly Tom Holmes pups. I told him that once he got his hands on this Burny he would NOT want to take those VH-1s out becuase they sound THAT good. I also told him that if he didn't like the pickups that I would buy them if he replaced them. Once he got the Burny he about had a cow; he said they sounded as close to old PAFs as he'd heard in a long time. He told me I wasn't getting them back, LOL. This guy actually had to sell of a bunch of old vintage Gibby stuff because of medical bills so, he knows what the real deal sounds like too. These VH-1s were without a doubt the best sounding VH-1s I've ever owned; heavily oxidized covers with the older black wire insulation. What a great Burny; Mike got a great guitar, and a dark burst at that.
Johan68 said:MIJVintage
Thanks for the info, it's a really nice guitar. The more I play on it, the more I like the SG model. It's light and comfortable and sounds really good. Haven't measured the neck but it's definitly not a slim one, it's quite beefy.
The insulation is gray, took some pictures on the original pickups:
http://web.comhem.se/~u18509083/Burnys/DSC01691_2.JPG
http://web.comhem.se/~u18509083/Burnys/DSC01693_2.JPG
The pickups in my LPC Burny is so good and I'm pretty sure that those are VH-1.
/Johan
Jim Jones said:Hey PoorMan,
How would you describe the neck on your Burny SG? Is it more like the current Gibson Standards and Specials or thin like a '61?
Thanks!
Jim
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