Burny Help

[Lp436]

There is a ton of great collective knowledge on here and I wanted to know if any of you experts out there could give me any additional info on this guitar. The listing isn't too much help. I would be more interested I the specific year, neck profile, and overall value of the guitar. I asked the seller, but would be more comfortable with the info coming from you guys if possible. I'm really considering buying this one. Thanks.

Burny Fernandes Old LPC RLG Special Clean 404 | eBay

 

[Mr Teeny]

Nice looking guitar and in decent condition too. The pots will give you the year of manufacture but it's one of the later 1980's / early 90's MIJ ones. Neck profile's usually described as 60's style, my Burny's certainly aren't fat necked but not your pencil slim ones either, there's a neck profile thread on here somewhere with some burny neck measurements if you need them.

Price seems fine certainly not overpriced for what it is , probably get one a little cheaper but possibly not in that condition, just remember to factor in customs charges etc depending on which country you're in as you may get one cheaper if you'd avoid customs and shipping from Japan. Always a few in the classified thread every now and them

 

[muccax]

hi
it looks like a burny late 80 to early 90 .... to me ....looks clean
and i got a few guitars from the seller before .... good guitars
no problems ..... but not easy to talk to ..... think he uses Google translate to translate English ..... but this is long time ago ... 1 year ago
so maybe he is better now
all the best
otto

 

[Mr Teeny]

With 48 watchers it might not be around for too long

 

[Lp436]

Wow, thanks for the info. Just what I needed. I like the price, but the extra shipping to the U.S. kind of kills the value a little. I also read that customs charges are hit or miss here. I hear great things about these and the pickups though.

 

[jacco]

With these few pics, the only thing to deduct is that it was made between 1990 and 1998.
Pictures of the control cavity (pots) will date it further if it was made up to late 1991. And pictures of the pickup cavities (that's where serial number would be if it has one) will date it further if it was made from 1992 to 1998.
Don't know what the seller means with 'tokai era' in the description, this guitar was made by Dyna.
1990 is RLC-65, 1991 to 1998 = RLC-70.

 

[Chris8020]

There is a ton of great collective knowledge on here and I wanted to know if any of you experts out there could give me any additional info on this guitar. The listing isn't too much help. I would be more interested I the specific year, neck profile, and overall value of the guitar. I asked the seller, but would be more comfortable with the info coming from you guys if possible. I'm really considering buying this one. Thanks.

Burny Fernandes Old LPC RLG Special Clean 404 | eBay

Due to the headstock inlay it should be crafted between 1989 and 1992
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[jacco]

Due to the headstock inlay it should be crafted between 1989 and 1992
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Nope, that lightning bolt inlay was used up to 1998.

Also it sports VH1 pickups as seen on the pickup rong sticker. In 1989 the RLC-60 still had VH3s, so this model dates from 1990 to 1998.
As said pot codes and/or pickup cavity pics will date it further.

 

[nikko71]

my fernandes is a 87 model ,i bought it brand new all those years ago,never got a good sound out of it,so picked up a LP studio and was in awe hownice it was to play,Recently i have dragged it out of the wardrobe ,had a fiddle with the string height and bridge height and it now is one amazing piece of work,it feels like it





weighs 50 kgs ,ssssolid body ,solid sound im lovin it again

 

[jacco]

Double post

 

[jacco]

Ok, a RLG-50 with VH1s?
Do you have a picture of the pot code maybe?

 

[Chris8020]

Nope, that lightning bolt inlay was used up to 1998.

Also it sports VH1 pickups as seen on the pickup rong sticker. In 1989 the RLC-60 still had VH3s, so this model dates from 1990 to 1998.
As said pot codes and/or pickup cavity pics will date it further.

Hi Jacco

Thanx for the surprising information. In the Fernandes catalogues the lightning bolt inlay of Burny models is discontinued after 1992. Where did the lightning bolt Burnys up to 1998 come from?

chris

 

[jacco]

Hi Chris, I know, for some reason they vanished from the standard Fernandes catalogs. However there are more catalogs than seen on the Fernandes website. There's one I know on Vintaxe from 1994, called Burny classic, featuring LPs.
But besides the catalags; from 1992 Burny's have a serial numbers which are, like the early 70's and 80s Terada made Burnys, in fact date codes.
A 5 digit date code, first digit being the hear of production. These Dyna made Burny's have date codes going up to late 1998. Dyna produced for Fernandes from 1987 to 1998 ( maybe a bit later but that's where my interest stops, it's also the start of Korean production).

 

[jacco]

PS would still like to see a pic of the control cavity of Nikko's LP!

 

[Chris8020]

Hi Chris, I know, for some reason they vanished from the standard Fernandes catalogs. However there are more catalogs than seen on the Fernandes website. There's one I know on Vintaxe from 1994, called Burny classic, featuring LPs.
But besides the catalags; from 1992 Burny's have a serial numbers which are, like the early 70's and 80s Terada made Burnys, in fact date codes.
A 5 digit date code, first digit being the hear of production. These Dyna made Burny's have date codes going up to late 1998. Dyna produced for Fernandes from 1987 to 1998 ( maybe a bit later but that's where my interest stops, it's also the start of Korean production).

Many thanx, Jacco! You play, you live and learn )
With your infos I now definitively know that my black Burny LPC was made between 1989 and 1992 (no serial number). It's a (rare?) model with nitrocellulose lacquer - but many parts (such as the pots) have been swapped by her former owner(s) ... also the obscure pickups, which nevertheless sound fantastic. I did a lot of searching - also on this forum - but could not solve the mystery.

But I guess, that's all right! )

chris

 

[nikko71]

hi jacco
wat pic do you want i can do now

 

[Mr Teeny]

Many thanx, Jacco! You play, you live and learn )
With your infos I now definitively know that my black Burny LPC was made between 1989 and 1992 (no serial number). It's a (rare?) model with nitrocellulose lacquer - but many parts (such as the pots) have been swapped by her former owner(s) ... also the obscure pickups, which nevertheless sound fantastic. I did a lot of searching - also on this forum - but could not solve the mystery.

But I guess, that's all right! )

chris

Are you sure it's nitro and stock nitro? May have been repsprayed along with all the other mods the previous owner did. Checking inside the control cavities will tell you for sure if it's a stock finish as there's usually plenty of overspray on those Burny LPC's