GOLD Jerry! GOLD!

Happy New Year 2020!

Stoptails, P-90s and gold. Gold Jerry! Gold!! 

 
Ok, excuse that Seinfeld reference.

Here are a couple of made-in-Japan tone machines that meet that recipe. The non-reverse Burny Firebird is an early 90's FB-65 or FB-75 (I think they adjusted the price at some point and the Crews is a recent model from around 2017 in the LS-02 series.

The Burny pickups sound really good to me. I'm not sure what the middle position switch does but will have to look under the hood some time. 

These are a slightly different shade of gold. I'm not sure what is more accurate to vintage Gibson colors. 

Both guitars have decent intonation all things considered with the stop-tails but full chords past the 10th fret just sound a bit off with the imperfect intonation. These are great blues and rock guitars though for single lines, bends and vibrato to make the intonation not matter too much.

The Crews is a Terada product and as usual is flawless in build has a perfect nitro finish and nice inlay and fret work.

I guess the Burny is a Dynagakki build from the routing and rough year but have no confirmation of that.

Gold Jerry! Gold.