Burns Guitar Profile Pin

Classic 60' s Burns of London Split Jazz guitar profile The crazy groundbreaking aspect of the Burns are the electronics. When the model was first introduced in 1961, it featured 4 pickups, and only around 50 guitars were ever made. Jim Burns simplified the design to a 3-pickup guitar that got produced from early ’63 to ’64. It featured low impedance pickups that were paired to 3 individual transformers that modified the signal in order to meet the wiring design. This is how crazy functions like the “Wild Dog” or “Split Tone” were born. You see, the pickups were actually 2 “sub-pickups”, divided in low section and high section, making it possible to combine the bass magnets of the neck pickup with the treble magnets of the bridge pi...