Hank Marvin Shadows Jet-SonicIP SonicIP Jet-SonicIP SonicIP Signature Bass • Wilkinson E-Z-LOK™ Locking Machine Heads • Wilkinson E-Z-LOK™ Locking Machine Heads Custom Elite Guitars • Nut width 43mm • Nut width 43mm • Scale length 251/2 inches • Scale length 251/2 inches • Neck made from Canadian Maple • Neck made from Canadian Maple • Fingerboard radius (compound 10 to 12 inches) • Fingerboard radius (compound 10 to 12 inches) • Fingerboard made from Indian Rosewood • Fingerboard made from Indian Rosewood fitted with 22 fast low profile frets fitted with 21 fast low profile frets Instructions • 1 x 3 way pickup selector switch + dual pull • 1 x 4 Way Pickup selector switch ® switch coil taps for single coil mode • 2 x Burns® Tri-Sonic™ Pickups Burns Custom Elite guitars are • 2 x Burns® Contoured Split Humbucker™ • Body made from Basswood Pickups • 1 x Master Volume designed and manufactured to exacting • Body made from Basswood • 1 x Master Tone ® and Guide • 1 x Master Volume • Featuring Burns unique Rez-o-Tube™ specifications, as you would expect of • 1 x Master Tone fixed bridge [Both controls are push/pull to split the coils Dear Guitar Player, a high quality professional instrument. on each pickup] designed by pagelli.com Thank you for choosing a guitar from • Unique Pagelli body design our Custom Elite range. • 6 x Separate bridge saddles Burns® London have been making guitars since 1960. They have remained Hank Marvin Signature Shadows Bass at the forefront of both innovation and Wilkinson E-Z-LOK™ Locking Tri-Sonic® Pickups •Original Burns® Vintage Style Machine Heads •Original Burns® Vintage Style (Reverse Gear) technology. Throughout the years the Features of the range include… Machine Heads The unique attributes of the Tri-Sonic® Pickup •Nut width 44mm Machine Heads great Burns® sound combined with ease The Jet-SonicIP and SonicIP are fitted with are perhaps best explained by Brian May •Scale length 251/2 inches •Nut width 43mm of playing has served to make these Wilkinson E-Z-LOK™ tuning posts to help achieve of Queen. •Neck made from Canadian Hard Rock Maple •Scale length 331/2 inches guitars popular with many famous accurate tuning and a straight string path across “The sound of a Tri-Sonic® pickup is not like a •Fingerboard made from Indian Rosewood •Neck made from Canadian Hard Rock Maple the headstock, which helps with vibrato systems standard single-coil pickup, or a double-coil •Burns® Gear-o-Matik™ Truss Rod Gearbox •Fingerboard made from Indian Rosewood musicians, both past and present. in particular. These can be used as either a locking (humbucker) – it is some way in between. It has •Body made from American Alder •Burns® Gear-o-Matik™ Truss Rod Gearbox We sincerely hope you will enjoy owning or standard tuner. String insertion heights are more warmth than standard single coil pickups, •Featuring Burns® unique Rez-o-tube® •Body made from American Alder this fine quality instrument, designed to Burns® Rez-o-tube® Fixed Bridge varied to maintain the correct break angle from so sings (feeds back) a little easier, but it also has aluminium bridge unit •Aluminium floating bass bridge unit give you years of enjoyment and The Burns unique through body Rezo-o-tube® the nut at a consistent level, eliminating the need more top end, or crispness, than a humbucker, • 3 x original Rez-o-matik® pickups •3 x original Nu-Sonic™ type pickups enhance your playing technique. bridge system is made from light weight Duralumin. for a string tree, a source of friction which can and does not self-limit at high levels, because its •Master Volume •Master Volume Designed with six individual sustain tubes to create tuning problems. inductance is smaller. They just have that sound, •5 Way Pickup selector switch •5 Way Pickup selector switch separate the character of each individual string Burns® Gear-o-Matik® Truss Rod Gearbox the sound that makes chords keep their clarity, •Tone control for neck and middle pickup •Tone control for neck and middle pickup Barry Gibson to produce clear classic tones. Each guitar has a bi-directional truss rod for the Burns® Vintage Style Machine Heads yet sound big, and makes single notes go into •Separate tone cut for bridge pickup •Separate tone cut for bridge pickup Managing Director A specially designed Burns® Tri-Sonic® Pickup is adjustment of the neck for any warps or bows These machine heads are fitted to the Hank smooth distortion and sing like a bird.” •Push/pull tone pot for two extra pickup •Push/pull tone pot for two extra pickup fitted within the bridge to capture the maximum that might occur as a result of climatic or humidity Marvin Signature model. With an 18.1 ratio gearing (Fitted to the SonicIP guitar.) combinations combinations resonance. changes. to help retain better tuning while using the tremolo This Burns® gearbox was first designed by Jim unit. Burns® Rez-o-tube® Tremolo Unit Burns in 1960 to allow fine neck setting. Coupled Rez-o-matik® Pickups For all sales enquiries contact: This 1964 patented design gives superb vibrato to the steel truss rod tensioned through the neck Burns® Vintage Style Bass Machine Heads Specially designed for the first Marvin guitar in Burns London Limited control due to the unique aluminium construction to a gearbox with a hefty cog and worm which Telephone +44(0)20 8783 3638 ® These have been re-produced to the same high 1964 these early Alnico type pickups have extra Fax +44(0)20 8783 3651 and fine engineering. The Rez-o-tube system provides micro adjustment. The minutely specifications as the originals including the unique warmth and rich natural tone. e-mail: [email protected] also contributes to the guitars tone and maintains adjustable truss rod is accessible from the back reverse gear system. (Fitted to the Marvin model only.) www.burnsguitars.com accurate tuning stability. serial number plate. (Refer to diagram 1) BACK COVER FRONT COVER.