Burns Marvin 1964 - red, green or white?

[geoff1711]

Hi All

well it's all in the title really, what's your preference, the white and green are correct history wise, but the red looks great.

What are your views?


Geoff

[BrianD]

Greenburst is my favourite. I had three Greenbursts - Legend, Double 6 and Baraccuda six string bass, all fromthe Burns CustomShop made back in '97 & '98

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Great guitars

I also like the white original style but never liked the red with white plates - looked too garish for my taste.

Brian

[BrianD]

Here are close ups of the Legend and Baraccuda.

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[Bill Bowley]

Don't like the red at all -it's like naming a BURNS model 'Apache', the connection between the colour red and 'Apache' as a model as far as the Shads goes relates to Fender in my opinion, not BURNS.

[petercreasey]

Green is mine too Here it is....

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[d jones]

Hi I've a red Marvin and a white apache plus two marquees both red, one with maple neck the other with a rosewood neck. Each to there own but i would'nt swop them for anything!

Dave

[geoff1711]

I like the headstock on your double 6, the one on my club series looked like a piece of plank, and I didn't realise the Barracuda body was mid sized between the the two.

The reason I ask, over the years I've had two Marquees, one white one green, both now gone.

Two Marvins the 2004 model, the first was not good, very open grain on the fretboard which seemed to create friction when bending strings, the second was great but I moved it on after about 3 years which I now regret.

And the Club double 6 again moved on, played nicely but I kept hitting the headstock on my study wall, just too long.

I now have a Marquee Pro with the chrome pickups, pearloid white scratchplate, and a vibrant Fiesta Red which I think looks really great.

And that's the problem, white guitars always feel too big, the green burst is very nice, but the red has a bound fretboard and locking tuners, but of course for a Burns the colour is wrong as is the maple neck.

The obvious choice is one of each, but unless Euro Millions comes up tonight that's wishful thinking, plus a route to divorce

Geoff

[dave robinson]

For me the only colour for a Marvin is white with tort facia, it's iconic, but I like the greenburst finish and I own the Shadows Custom in red. Despite being red which I don't think suits it, The Shadows Custom plays marginally better than the Marvin and sounds great.

[Hank2k]

My favourite is the greenburst mainly because thats my first recollection of the shadows with Burns in Finders Keepers.

Also own a Red Shadows Custom purely as it was nice to see Bruce getting a mention finally on a signature guitar.

I do like the Apache etc but i find that Burns have just too many Limited edition models now and all of them are just a different colour basically

[ala1940]

i've always felt the green as per Peter Creaseys photo looks impressive although I own the white version. If there was no Shadows connection my choice would have been the green.