The sale of Fernandes was increased a lot. They were original member of ESP foundation (a bit later,2 gentlemen left ESP, they have internal argument and it became court battlewith current ESP owner). Well, 2 gentlemen startedESP a bit later. However,they didn't know well about Fender and Gibson originals.įernandes offered the big size Guitar Amplifiers at the same type of guitars.These Amplifiers were named 'Royal', look like Orange Amplifier.Theseare also conducted by Mr. Kawai has many knowledge from Teisco production. They made all Fernandes guitarsas OEM contract. On learning of the error and the Englishmeaning of burn, they decided to stick with the original BURNY brand name. In addition, theSG copy included the vibro-tremolo unit.Īs an interesting side note, the Burny name was supposed to be Bunny (asin rabbits) but was misspelled. it was unique that most Japanese manufacturerswere using bolt-on neck bodies but BURNY was very good at set-neck constructionfor upper class. Burny brand wasused for these Gibson replicas. The early catalogs featured TV, SG and Firebird replica. So you could feel the weight more compare The weak point of this wood was really heavy weight. That's why early Fernandes body is bonded wood! The body was made by the silver heart wood which was used at many bowling alley.Īfter bowling booming at early 70's, many bowling alley were bankrupted. The hardware size was metric instead of fractional.
The price was 1/3-1/4 of original guitars.Also, the quality was much better than earlier GRECO, (Matsumoku era) MORRIS,Guyatone and others.įST (Strat) and FTE (Tele) were early time line-up with Fernandes Logo on the head. They made 2 brands such as Fernandes and Burny. Shiino conducted early time Fernandes Guitar. Hidesato Shiino to support theįernandes electric guitars line in the early 1970’s. Katsumi Omote(He was a staff of Fernandes, transferring employee, conducted Kawai manufacturing,He was a guitar player but knew much knowledge of electric guitars already.) Originally selling the flamenco guitars, the company expanded productionover the years to include different acoustic models, electric guitars,bass guitars, amplifiers and accessories and is today one of the most famousJapanese guitar Manufacturers. The company was founded in 1969 and registered as Fernandes in 1972. Fernandes (and Bury) were brand names of Saito Musical Instruments had.
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