do liek !! burns vista sonic 63

kim · Post by **kim** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:53 pm

i don't know why, it's ugly, but so ugly it becomes cute... ?

cuter in white though, i wonder if you could frankenstein a p bass neck on it, i really like the contours of the body, upper horn reminds me of early Wal basses.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:02 pm

I love those Burns basses. My mate has a smaller, short scale Sonic exactly the same as this;

Thing is the tuners were shit, and I don't know if that's common with those basses, but he's had/having a bit of trouble getting replacements for it. I don't know how hard he's looked for them, but it's a great little bass otherwise, t'is tiny!

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:06 pm

godamn, that shit is hawt!

kim · Post by **kim** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:10 pm

yeah the neck/headstock looks a bit wonky but it's such a pretty design for the body, like if burns would use the body again but with better necks, decent pickups etc on it...those would sell like crazy i think.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:14 pm

The headstocks on Burns' are just something I've never been able to get on with (sorry Eric!), but otherwise they have some cracking body designs.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:41 pm

what's the lower thumb rest looking thingie?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:02 pm

gaybear wrote:what's the lower thumb rest looking thingie?

Is it a finger rest?

ZenJenga in another thread wrote:the 'thumbrest' changed it's usage.
it was never on the 'wrong side'
the bass players back in the day used there thumbs and had that 'rest' for the remaining fingers.
Do some research.
example, buddy holly's bassist. ( the one that got electrocuted )

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:25 pm

Gorgeous.

The headstocks are brilliant, you bunch of philistines.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:47 am

I'd totally rock that white one.

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:12 am

I like the white one as well.

I played a Burns guitar once, it was one of the new ones, I wasn't impressed.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:03 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:
gaybear wrote:what's the lower thumb rest looking thingie?
Is it a finger rest?

Coincidently, i realised not long ago i lever my pinky off the humbucker pup surround on Gibson type guitars. It gives me more stability and helps my picking accuracy.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:58 pm

Fran wrote:
BacchusPaul wrote:
gaybear wrote:what's the lower thumb rest looking thingie?
Is it a finger rest?
Coincidently, i realised not long ago i lever my pinky off the humbucker pup surround on Gibson type guitars. It gives me more stability and helps my picking accuracy.

I know that at various times I have anchored in different places whilst practising, but none of them translated to actual technique whilst playing. I really think that a big part of my sloppy, frustrated, aggressive style of playing comes form getting pretty fast sitting down practising, and not being able to recreate it standing up with a strap.

You should try a full archtop, with no pickups. You have nothing, the strings are three quarters of an inch in the air off the body, it's like a tight rope.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:16 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:
Fran wrote:
BacchusPaul wrote: Is it a finger rest?
Coincidently, i realised not long ago i lever my pinky off the humbucker pup surround on Gibson type guitars. It gives me more stability and helps my picking accuracy.
You should try a full archtop, with no pickups. You have nothing, the strings are three quarters of an inch in the air off the body, it's like a tight rope.

I dont like large acoustics/bodied guitars in general. James archtop was surprisingly comfy and the 335 i got off Proggy is too, ridiculously so, which surprises me after using smaller bodied Fenders for so long.

Theoretically you should have your strap set so that the guitar is in the position it would be if you were sat down, it works too, just looks a bit gay thats all. Joey Ramone would disapprove.