Burny

This is a rare-ish one. I wasn't sure if they still made'em but apparently they do now, fernandes and burny are now together as far as I know. Features: NECK : Mahogany, 628mm-Scale, Set-Neck FINGERBOARD : Rosewood, 22F., 400R BODY : Maple 15mm + Mahogany 45mm PICKUP : HPD-200, FVH-2002S CONTROL : 1Volume, 1Tone, 3Way Toggle-SW., Sustainer Controls BRIDGE : FRT-11 PICKUPS: fernandes sustainer in the neck and an EMG 89 in the bridge! Very interesting piece with a floyd-like trem, and a fernandes sustainer pickup in the neck. Very cool!! I'm not sure if the bridge pickup is stock or an aftermarket thing, it most likely is an aftermarket pickup. UTILIZATION It's easy to play for sure, just like any other LP type. The bridge is pretty decent, I don't think it's an original floyd but it's alright and kind of cool to see on a LP, especially with the awesome fernandes sustainer pickup in the neck! Real cool! This is a pickup that offers literally infinite sustain. It requires a battery and has some of it's own controls on the front of the guitar. You can set how long you want the note to ring for, it can be forever or it can just be for a normal amount of time.It's a pickup itself too so it's a multi-function pickup! There are 2 mini toggle switches on this guitar, one I believe is the fernandes sustainer to set the two modes, one of which is on/off and the other is to select the 3 different modes that the sustainer can do, natural, harmonic and blend. There's a push pull tone control for the EMG to switch between single coil and humbucker mode. SOUNDS Sounds GREAT! Wow, i'm really impressed with this piece!! The EMG 89 is such an underrated pickup, it's basically an EMG single coil AND an EMG 85 put together and you can toggle or push/pull between the two. Great sound, nice clear and defined distortion, thick and warm also. While the cleans are great especially with the 85 being warmer than the 81, it has a lot of headroom for nice humbucker cleans or you can push/pull your tone knob and get the EMG single coil in the bridge to get that single coil spank, which is still noiseless by the way! OVERALL OPINION Great guitar, very diverse and offers quite a few things on board to make the guitar literally SING. I believe they still make this model, as far as I know. The bridge is probably the worst part which is at most, decent and not great. But everything else about this guitar is amazing! I wish I had a sustainer pickup in all my guitars!! The EMG 89 is also quite a versatile pickup! Great options and switchability between single coil and humbucker makes it a real diverse guitar!

Made in Japan Mahogany solid body construction with a maple top Mahogany set in neck with a rosewood fingerboard 22 frets Trapezoidal inlays Vintage style high-quality tuning machines Tunamatic style bridge and stop tailpiece 2 humbucking pickups 2 volume controls, 2 tone controls, and a 3 way pickup selector switch 1/4" output jack Gold hardware Floating pickguard Nice binding on the top, back, and fretboard UTILIZATION This guitar, for all intents and purposes, is a Les Paul. I don't mean it's like a Les Paul, I mean it IS a Les Paul. Obviously, it is not made by Gibson, and Gibson is the originator and true owner of the Les Paul name. But really, this guitar is so identical to a good Les Paul Custom, that the only discernible difference is in the brand name on the headstock. It plays like a Les Paul, smooth and buttery. Unfortunately it is as heavy as a Les Paul as well - in the 9 pound area! But, again, this is a functionally identical guitar, so expect all aspects to be as spot-on as possible. SOUNDS This guitar sounds just like a good Les Paul. The neck pickup can sing with a beautiful warm bloom, and the bridge pickup has a great bite to it. The sustain on this Burny is just as good as on a Les Paul. Genre-wise, this guitar is great for jazz, classic rock, metal, country, and about anything else one can think of. OVERALL OPINION This is a fantastic instrument. Some people would be angry about its design and looks, stating that it is a copyright infringement. I'm not here to argue, so with the validity or not of arguments such as these aside, this guitar, to me, is a fantastically built instrument, and it has every bit the quality that a good old Les Paul Custom has. 9 out of 10 overall.

This is a rare find for sure. I believe it's been rumored to be a chinese made guitar. However, the quality seems to be amazing and I don't know how or why! Specs: NECK : Mahogany, 628mm-Scale, Set-Neck FINGERBOARD : Rosewood, 22F., 400R BODY : Maple 15mm + Mahogany 45mm PICKUP : Burny style pickups CONTROL : 2Volume, 2Tone, 3Way Toggle-SW. BRIDGE : Tune O Matic & Stop Tailpiece UTILIZATION Shape-wise it's pretty much like any other LP custom would be, big, thick and moderately heavy. Though this particular piece wasn't SUPER heavy, though it does weigh at something around 9lbs that last time I checked. The neck is comfortable, by comfortable i mean thicker than most but still slim. It's got that 60's taper slim profile vibe about it. Again, upper fret access is a burden just like it usually is with LP shapes, there's nothing surprising about this. Of course if you have monster hands you could do it with ease, otherwise you definitely have to re-angle your positioning to get around the big set neck. SOUNDS surprisingly, for the time that I owned this guitar I never changed the pickups. It seemed that I never needed to. I almost always do it with certain guitars that have unfamiliar pickups. But once I plugged this one in, everything sounded good!! The bridge pickup was my favorite, not for cleans, but for dirt it was quite thick, raunchy! A little bit raspy-like with some edge too, but not too much. Though harmonics didn't leap out either, the crunch was still good. The neck pickup as I remember was quite smooth, maybe a bit too muddy and the cleans were decent but nothing to really write home about. OVERALL OPINION Overall a pretty decent guitar especially for it's age, I believe it's an 80s model I don't know when exactly but the frets were still good and the neck was good too. It seems to have been a well made guitar, I wouldn't say it's perfect I did notice some finish flaws with the binding on the headstock and some at the 12th fret inlay. But even some Gibsons have such flaws even after paying hundreds of dollars more! I'd say it's quite decent and worth looking into if you like the sykes look with the all chrome hardware. LPs should all be around this price range in my opinion.