Burny RSA-100 Gibson ES-335 Copy 2004 Cherry

Selling my cherry red Burny ES-335 (model RSA-100). This is a beautiful guitar in very good, original condition. The binding has yellowed just a bit with age, making it look vintage. Well -- I guess it is -- more than 20 years old now. Also, there's a little bit of hazing over the Burny logo on the headstock that is the only thing that keeps me from rating the condition of this guitar "excellent." See photo. The only reason I'm selling because the neck carve is a Gibson mid-'60s style (1-5/8" nut) which I'm not a fan of. I prefer the fat '50s necks.

In case you're not familiar with Burny, it's one of the many high-quality lawsuit-era guitar brands that emerged in Japan in the '70s, copying and actually doing a better job of building Gibson, Fender, and Martin guitars, including Ibanez, Greco, Tokai, Fernandes, Takamine, Guyatone, and others. As the label inside the guitar shows, this Burny was built by Fernandes.

All the stuff you'd expect in a similar Gibson ES-335 guitar, with the added bonus of made in Japan when they were building them better than the guys at Gibson. Dual humbuckers, Kluson-style tulip tuners, rosewood fretboard with dot inlays, semi-hollow body with a three-ply maple-mahogany-maple top and back, tune-o-matic bridge, long guard, stop tail, etc. Even the fabled, Japan-only Gibson open-book headstock. Includes a really nice Noah's Ark heavy duty gig bag. "Thin film finish" in great shape with just a few minor dings/scratches.

This model was originally priced at 100,000 yen reflecting its high-quality build.