Gorgeous limited edition Burns T-shirt to celebrate the Burns Marvin 40 years Anniversary. Excellent quality with prints on one sleeve as well as on the front. Colour: Light grey. It is now also available in black. Sizes: L, XL and XXL. Price: £11.99 + package and postage (see order form). You can pay with PayPal.

Description of the book:

Exclusive Burns anniversary book (1952-2002) printed in four colours. Approx. 90 pages. Depicts 50 years of Burns guitars in words and gorgeous artistic colour pictures taken by an acclaimed guitar photographer. Far more guitars will be featured in the book, than on this site.

"Pearls and Crazy Diamonds" contains contributions by Les Andrews, Cees Bakker, Eddie Cross, Paul Day, Mark Davies, Barry Gibson, Norman Houlder, Dag Johnsen, Stanley W Kreuger, Steve Kreuger, Alfons Lahaye and Bob Pearson.

Published 1/1 2002, in a limited exclusive hardback edition.

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Table of Contents:

I. The Jim Burns Story
– The Memories from Early Days
– The Man Behind the Machines
II. The Team
III. The Players
IV. The Innovations
V. The Guitar Museum
– 1952–1958
– Burns-Weill 1959–1960
– Ormston Burns London Ltd 1960 –1965
– Prototypes never developed
– Ampeg 1963–1964
– Baldwin 1965–1970
– Ormston 1966–1968
– Hayman 1970–1975
– Burns UK Ltd 1974–1977
– Jim Burns Actualizers Ltd 1979–1983
– Burns London Ltd 1992–
VI. The Bass Gallery
VII. Extraordinary Burns
VIII. Dating of Burns Guitars
IX. The Shadows Story – The Burns Era
X. Burns Circuitry
XI. Amplifiers and Accessories
XII. Acknowledgements