Sorry Burns fans

[Annoying Twit]

!!UUUGGGGLLLLYYYY!!!!

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[GreeneKing]

'Interesting'

I bet its a tad neck heavy.

[Hamster]

I think that's been made out of an old disemboweling cutlass

[Musky]

I remember when these came out. A few typical innovative burns features on this, like the roller string trees, tuners/nut all mounted on metal plate and the bridge locking mechanism.

Not ugly IMHO, but not for me either.

[skankdelvar]

Can also be used as a giant bottle-opener.

[budget bassist]

When you say ugly.... do you mean uglier than most other burns basses? Because lets be fair, you can hardly call them attractive!!

[Annoying Twit]

I do appreciate originality in design. But sometimes it works and sometimes it ... doesn't.

I'm not too knowledgeable on Burns basses, so I couldn't compare them. I'm off to google images search them out though.

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='335023' date='Nov 23 2008, 05:45 PM']I do appreciate originality in design. But sometimes it works and sometimes it ... doesn't.

I'm not too knowledgeable on Burns basses, so I couldn't compare them. I'm off to google images search them out though.[/quote]


A friend of mine has one and I think my Encore is better constructed.

[BigRedX]

Burns Basses have this weird thing where the more horrible they look generally the better they sound and play and conversely the coolest looking of all the Burns, the Flyte is a complete dog to play and sounds cr@p!

[Musky]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='335031' date='Nov 23 2008, 05:49 PM']A friend of mine has one and I think my Encore is better constructed.[/quote]

Is that the Korean reissue, or the Jim Burns Ltd one?

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Musky' post='335119' date='Nov 23 2008, 08:16 PM']Is that the Korean reissue, or the Jim Burns Ltd one?[/quote]


Erm this one

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[Musky]

Ah, that's a Korean Bison by the looks of things.

[mathewsanchez]

That's the exact one in my local music shop. I've played it and it's quite fun, not my cup of tea though.

[Dubs]

now that [i]is[/i] ugly

[thebeat]

I like it...freak that i am.

[Lfalex v1.1]

[quote name='Musky' post='335128' date='Nov 23 2008, 08:36 PM']Ah, that's a Korean Bison by the looks of things.[/quote]

Whereas the one depicted is a "copy" of the Scorpion, itself a cut-up Bison...
I [i]think[/i] the original Scorpion had the 3 single-coils like the Bison, not that P/J lash-up.

[Musky]

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='342291' date='Dec 1 2008, 07:33 PM']Whereas the one depicted is a "copy" of the Scorpion, itself a cut-up Bison...
I [i]think[/i] the original Scorpion had the 3 single-coils like the Bison, not that P/J lash-up.[/quote]

The one in the picture at the top is one of the original production Scorpions, though the early/protoype ones might have been a bit different. I remember an article and brochure in IM&RW when these first appeared which, as far as I recall, had brass rather than chromed plates on. Maybe there were other differences as well.

[Prosebass]

Probably owned by a pirate.....arrrrrr arrrrrr Jim lad...

[tombboy]

An original scorpion. My brother had the six string version of this many years ago and apart from a little neck dive, it sounded awsome!
Personally I find it fugly and would never buy one.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Back in the mid-late '80s I bumped into Jim Burns a couple of times
in the Angel pub (behind tin pan alley).
He was a happy drunk . All I can remember in the drunken conversations we had,
was talking about 'Hawaii steel metal'. (he was talking about building Hawaiin guitars.
Me being metalhead at the time)..Did I spell Hawaiin right