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I have a Burns flyte guitar I’m rebuilding. 
The Mach one humbusters are original to the bass but it looks like a refinish due to lack of decals.

The most popular colours were silver (there was a problem with the paint and they turned green) and natural finish.

Slade had a bass (recorded on at least one track) and guitar, also Marc Bolan was pictured with one

Heres a link for more info 

 

https://www.hendrixguitars.com/Va484.htm

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1 hour ago, Eric.C.Lapton said:

I have a Burns flyte guitar I’m rebuilding. 
The Mach one humbusters are original to the bass but it looks like a refinish due to lack of decals.

The most popular colours were silver (there was a problem with the paint and they turned green) and natural finish.

Slade had a bass (recorded on at least one track) and guitar, also Marc Nolan was pictured with one

Heres a link for more info 

 

https://www.hendrixguitars.com/Va484.htm

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Yes, I think it may be a refin; I remembered them as silver and with the logo. 

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13 hours ago, msb said:

Nice score! I have the Unicorn that was based on that , but headless.

 

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River-<something>?

Coincidentally, the shop also had a headless project in the storage area when we went looking for the Flyte's case (haha - a Flyte case!).

 

bass - Hohner Jack - front - 221203.jpg

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6 hours ago, prowla said:

River-<something>?

Coincidentally, the shop also had a headless project in the storage area when we went looking for the Flyte's case (haha - a Flyte case!).

 

bass - Hohner Jack - front - 221203.jpg

 

Is it just the one tuner that's missing? Not that finding a replacement is likely to be easy.

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2 hours ago, Philip Westgarth said:

I have for sale on eBay a Burns Flyte bass guitar body and neck made by Sherwood in the 70’s. The serial number on the neck is 371 and the body is 254.

I've seen that - could be an interesting project, but finding parts could be a challenge.

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23 hours ago, prowla said:

An interesting interpretation of a Riverhead interpretation of a Flyte on eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185840185516

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That's been up for a while, think it's been discussed here too. Originally made for Matt Pegg, son of Dave (Fairport Convention) - Dave loved his Riverhead Unicorn so much he wrote a song about it!

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