I may have a go on the weekend, maybe. Yep, still have the Bison - a local music shop imported exactly 2 new Burns guitars into Australia - that one, and a black Marvin which has the rolled headstock I hate. I bought that one. Almost sold it about a decade ago but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I got it out of its case after about 2 years the other day and it was pretty much still in tune. Rock solid and very, very heavy.
Hmm. The SG doesn't sound different enough from the LP to warrant purchasing it for that reason, at least to me. The playability will be the major difference between the two gits. The sound? Not a lot.
But happy new purchase, Minerdude!
New "Burns" guitars have appeared in my local music shop in the past year or two. I don't know who owns the brand and is manufacturing them these days, but they absolutely look the part, the build quality appears to be superb and they are very attractive instruments to someone of an "individual" sort of taste. I haven't played one of them, though.
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Yup, exact same guitar. It was really nice.
I don't get that myself. I mean, sure I understand about the noise thing, but if you're there to try out gear that you might end up spending $$$ on, they need to let folks do just that. Don't these guys understand that you might wanna play an amp (just for example) at gig level in order to make your decision to buy something??
GC has isolated rooms for that, but still....
If I were you, I'd go there at least once a week, & make 'em set a bunch of gear up in that room, just to make the dumbfucks move/carry that shit around...
I was being obnoxious. I admit it. This was my local Katy, Tx Guitar Center which is a smaller "studio" store which means they have a lesser, more watered down inventory geared more towards beginners. The bigger GCs around here are usually very good about letting you be loud if you're seriously looking for something. I was just walking around kicking tires. It was also 2 pm and the store was empty, so my obnoxiousness was even more on display than usual. They used to know me there. I go there all the time. But there's so much turnover now, besides the store manager and the guitar "tech", I never ever see the same faces there from week to week. I'm always in there for strings, sticks, cables, drum heads, moongels, little things, even bought a few guitars and used pedals there, but I never see the same employees. Those flunkees that told me to chill had no idea they were in the presence of greatness.