GAS attack

Got a gas attack in 2004 when I saw Steve Hackett on the To Watch The Storms tour. Had it ever since. Dithered a lot- really want one, no we need other things first etc. Coronavirus has lit my gas (Better get one now before I snuff it) and it's burning, or rather Burny-ing. Now I face the agony of waiting up to 4 hours for it to arrive.

IT'S HERE!!! Pictures to follow once Ive finished testing it out and generally drooling over it.

Burny Les Paul with Floyd Rose trem and Fernandes Sustainer. cSorry about the slightly blurred pictures.

Back to drooling and playing now

Oh, what a black beauty she is!
That should wake up the neighbours!

I hope so,they keep us awake with their late night (6am) parties with  rap music,,, spit ! often enough.

Lovely guitar but very and I mean VERY heavy.

Will return to it tomorrow after I've sorted out the latest kitty problem - Echo (7  year old Bengal cat, 20% wild cat) aka Ecky Thump, Shut Up (Bikers get shirts saying born to ride, he'd have one saying born to whine)  and now and then as 'get off the road sh!t for brains, . caught a baby rabbit.  Took a while to get it off the little monster in mostly one piece and sort out a box with grass and water in the garage, I'll let it go tomorrow while he's locked in the house.

I want to keep it, I'm a sucker for small furry animals in distress and guitars.

Now I just need to figure out which guitars and/or synths to sell to pay for it.

I've been a cat guy most of my adult life, but they're an acquired taste for most folks I find.
Up until late last summer we had 3 cats plus the cockapoo.

We lost 2 of them in a space of about 5 months and I miss them terribly. The youngest one was a feral cat and caught his share of mice, birds and possums! No bunnies.

Cats are pure magic, dogs pure love.
Guitars pure joy. Enjoy that thing!

I don't know Burny at all, but that looks the goods! I love the FR on a Paul - mainly because it makes LP snobs foam at the bung, eh!! :-)

corsair wrote:I don't know Burny at all, but that looks the goods! I love the FR on a Paul - mainly because it makes LP snobs foam at the bung, eh!! :-)

Gibson have been doing a FR on a LP for a number of years. So no big deal there. Just a BIG price..

Seems Gibson are going tits up, in a bit of trouble!!

What a waste !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd7ySopIwog

So painful to watch.
I saw that vid as well as an interview with the Gibson employee who filmed it (see below).

This Firebird model was a POS and a sales dud but how in hell do you simply destroy perfectly good instruments? And complete with hardware and electronics?!

Insurance write offs are one thing but this is just wanton destruction.
Most sane companies would simply liquidate the stock and take a loss on the difference.

This will not enhance Gibson's increasingly shabby reputation.

How about the bit where they'er snapping the necks on 335's..

What a disgraceful sacrilege  of many parts that were obviously good.

That made me madder than hell!
I have an ES330 so it hit home particularly hard.

I don't think I'll ever buy, or otherwise own, a Gibson!  I started my electric journey with a 1962 Melody Maker before switching to a Strat with my band.  Owned a SG Standard (1964) and had the true pleasure of owning a 1965 ES-345 Stereo (for all too short of time - stolen).  Never was really comfortable with any of them but of the three, the ES was my favorite.

The destruction made me sick to my stomach

Not easy to watch, I agree....

... though I really don't care what Gibson do, nor what eventually happens to them as a company - karma is a bitch! 
I have only owned one, a Recording LP with the low output pickups which sounded dreadful, though that was probably youthful inexperience!, and weighed as much as the moon; I owned that guitar for a month, I think. Went to a 58 Telecaster after that; a worthy guitar upon which I visited many, many indignities...

Westbone wrote:How about the bit where they'er snapping the necks on 335's..

Here's the video I was thinking of when I said I was mad as hell.
It's by the same ex-Gibson employee who shot the first video.

Brace yourself...

Sorry for hijaking the thread David.

The reference to Gibson's behaviour seems to have touched a raw nerve!
Your Burny is head and shoulders above most of what flies the Gibson banner these days.

That looks sweet as mate 
Ive been watching Burnys for years but never actually grabbed one
If I do ever get a Les Paul it will be either Burny or Aria Pro II

Barry - no problem, threads drift sometimes. Challpa, if you get a Burny you may need something I'm going to order today - an extra wide padded strap. This thing is seriously heavy - 12 pounds.

Purge wrote: This thing is seriously heavy - 12 pounds.

Need a fork lift....

That Burny IS NIIICE!  Got me to check out what is available in my playground and the four that I found knocked my socks off pricewise!  Two were Burny branded and the others were Fernandes (supposedly the export branding label).  The prime reason that they are up for grabs... Weight!!