Burns Marquee Electric Guitar in Red Burst

Burns London, the historic UK guitar brand, offers quirky '60s-inspired instruments that really stand out from the crowd! Their Marquee model just oozes with retro charm, but has the reliable and reassuring build quality you'd expect from a modern-day guitar. It's the perfect example of old meets new!

Despite its radical looks, the Burns Marquee's core construction and features are very much in line with that of a standard S-style guitar — so you'll feel right at home. Bright, vintage tones resonate beautifully from this instrument, courtesy of a trio of Burns' proprietary 'Rez-O-Matik' pickups, while the gorgeous knife-edge tremolo makes it a joy to embellish chords or lead lines with smooth vibrato whenever inspiration strikes!

Key Features

• Okoume Body — A popular timber often likened to Mahogany for its warm and sustain-rich sound, giving the Marquee fantastic sonic depth.
• Maple Neck — A high-quality wood that's strong and bright in tone.
• Bolt-On Construction — Gives the instrument a "snappy" sound and response, so you’ll always feel musically-connected when you strum a chord or pick a note!
• 25.5" Scale Length — Popular scale synonymous with bolt-on guitars. Gives the Marquee optimal tension, so you can dig in but still bend the strings with plenty of expression.
• Scroll Headstock — There's nothing quite like it! Only this kind of headstock design would have been conceived in the '60s, and we love it!
• Alnico Rez-O-Matik Pickups — These vibrant single-coils are recreations of Burns' original 1960s pickups; Alnico 5 units wound on fibre bobbins. They were initially created to suit the needs of The Shadows' legendary guitarist Hank B. Marvin, and these present-day versions were reverse-engineered from an original 1964 set of Burns Rez-O-Matiks, so you know they're authentic!
• Push/Pull Function — Pull the second tone control up to engage the neck pickup with any position on the 5-way pickup selector switch. This means that you can get a T-style tone if you select the bridge pickup position with the push/pull activated, or you can even use all 3 pickups together in switch position 4. This gives you a total of 7 different sounds!
• Burns Knife-Edge Tremolo — Famously-smooth bar action lets you tastefully add vibrato to a ringing chord or note, with a positive return to pitch. The full-sized aluminium sustain block really emphasises that iconic Burns sound too!

Specifications

Body

• Body Wood: Okoume
• Body Finish: Classic Polyester

Neck

• Neck Wood: Maple
• Neck Profile: "C"
• Neck Joint: Bolt-On
• Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
• Fingerboard Wood: Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
• Fingerboard Inlays: Dot
• Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
• Number of Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1.693" (43 mm)
• Truss Rod: Bi-Flex
• Headstock Shape: Scroll

Hardware

• Bridge: ​Burns 3-Bolt Knife-Edge Tremolo
• Tuners: Burns-Designed
• Pickguard: 3-Ply Black
• Control Knobs: Burns Vintage-Style
• Hardware Colour: Chrome

Electronics

• Pickups: Burns Alnico Rez-O-Matik Single-Coils
• Controls: Master Volume, 2 Tone (with Push/Pull Function), 5-Way Blade Pickup Selector Switch