Burns HAYMAN 2020 1974 Black Guitar. RARE. Innovative. A Masterbuilt Masterpiece by Jim Burns..

HAYMAN

MODEL 2020

Electric Guitar

1971

“A Masterpiece”

About HAYMAN Guitars

Burns Guitars by another name.

After selling his company, BURNS GUITARS, to the BALDWIN Company in the USA in the fall of 1965, Jim Burns kept designing and building guitars.

He was a genius.

In 1969, Ivor Arbitor, head of Dallas Arbiter, a major British music company, asked Burns to design a line of guitars to be called Hayman with former Vox guitar man Bob Pearson. Burns and Pearson settled on a new shape that looked similar to the Ormston prototype. If you squint, a Fender Tele comes to mind. The first Haymans, the solid 1010 (three Super Flux single-coil pickups) and semi-solid 2020 (two Super Fluxes), were introduced in 1970, both with mahogany bodies and maple fingerboards. These were followed in 1971 by the twin-pickup solid body Hayman 3030 and the 4040 Bass, both with bodies of obeche wood. Former Burns employees Jack Golder, Norman Holder, and Derek Adams worked on production.

And with these artisans on board, the resulting Hayman guitars were really BURNS GUITARS and they sold quite well.

Burns, however, got antsy and departed Dallas Arbiter in the Fall of 1971, leaving Pearson in charge. In ’73, the Hayman line added models with Re-An humbucking pickups, yielding the Hayman 3030H. Like its predecessor, the body is of obeche, which is nicely set off by the maple neck and f fingerboard trimmed in black binding. The smoked Plexiglas pickguard adds a touch of class. Controls are a simple three-way with one volume and one tone knob. Strings pass through the body. These pickups have a nice, clean frequency response, but a somewhat restrained personality. The feel is distinctly different from American designs. The 3030H was produced for less than a year.

The 2020. 

An amazing unique guitar hand built by some of the most creative and talented guitar craftsman in the UK.  Jim Burns, the creative genius behind BURNS Guitars, not only built great guitars, he built a great team of guitar builders who each, in his own trade, excelled.  This is a perfect blend of the talents of all those designers and builders.

It is a Masterpiece.

STYLE:  Semi-Acoustic with white bound “F-Holes” and white binding around top and bottom of guitar.

BODY WOOD:  Mahogany with Sycamore Veneer.

NECK:  Maple

FRETBOARD:  Maple with binding.

TUNERS:  Grover.

FINISH:  “Black”

SCALE:  25 ½”

FRETS:  21

PICKUPS:  Two (2) “Superflux”.  Single coil pickups mounted on a metal plate under which magnets were sandwiched between another metal plate.  This served to provide a magnetic field between the neck and bridge pickups.

BRIDGE:  “Microtune”.

HEADSTOCK:  Angles back.

CONDITION:  This guitar is in GOOD cosmetic condition and EXCELLENT operational condition.

THIS GUITAR IS IN GOOD CONDITION. PLEASE LOOK AT PHOTOS

 Comes with case that may not be original.

Please remember to read our policies and procedures listed below. (Note:  no guarantee nor warranty applies to purchases outside of the USA.  All foreign sales are “AS IS”)

For buyers outside the continental USA, please ask for shipping quote before buying this item.  Thank you.

Please remember to read our policies and procedures listed below.

The guarantee.

1.     The guitar is in GOOD cosmetic condition.

2.    The guitar is in fully operational condition.

3.    Buyer has 48 hrs. to inspect the guitar or have it inspected.  Any defects, damage, misrepresentations or other problems must be reported within that time period in writing to the Seller.

4.    In the case of damage during shipment, Buyer shall immediately inform seller of such damage and will maintain all original packing materials and box for inspection by the transportation company.

5.    If other problems are discovered, Seller will either arrange for repair etc. at a location near the Buyer or request that the Buyer return the guitar to the Seller (Seller will reimburse Buyer for cost of shipment of guitar back to Seller).

6.    Seller will correct indicated problems and ship the guitar back to the Buyer within 7 days of receiving it.

7.    In the event that the guitar cannot be repaired or replaced with a similar item from Seller’s inventory, the Seller will give the Buyer Credit toward current or future purchases from inventory of Seller.

8.    No refunds or returns for Buyer Remorse or Buyer Mind Changing. 

9.    If there are any undisclosed physical attributes of this guitar that will prevent buyer from playing it successfully, e.g., neck to wide to be played with arthritic hands, guitar too heavy to be played due to back, shoulder, etc. problems, then we will, upon return of the guitar, issue a Credit Memo to Buyer in the amount paid for the guitar plus the cost of shipment paid by the Buyer against the future purchase of a guitar from us.