This guitar is a one off custom order hand made in the UK in Burns Custom Shop in 1996.
Some Details
Neck : One piece premium sycamore highly figured (see photos), bolt-on 4 points, scroll headstock.
ebony fingerboard with white binding and pearl dots, 22 vintage frets + zero fret, black phenol nut.
Bi-Flex truss-rod, access by Gear-box under rear little black neck plate
Body : Solid tulipwood 2 pieces, bevelled shoulders-edges, multi-ply grey tortoise scratchplates
Black neckplate on the back see pictures. Active electronics and 9V.DC
Hardware : All gold, original VanGhent machine heads, Burns bridge with individual saddles, Rez-O-Tube tailpiece.
Black Steve Howe signature engraved on the bottom
Pickups : 2 Burns Steve Howe splitted single coils (neck & medium), 1 Burns Nu-Sonic (bridge) and 1 piezo transducer (under the 6 bridge saddles)
Routing : 1 blade-switch 5 pos. (Strat type combinations 1,2,3,1+2, 2+3), 1 blade-switch 3 pos. (PU's/PU's+Piezo/Piezo alone).
Vol.PU, Vol.transducer, Tone P.U., Tone transducer, lateral output jack.
Colour : Translucent green-sunburst polyester (body), translucent light yellow vintage (neck)
No Serial Number engraved on neck-plate, Only One Steve Howe Nu-Sonic Special Model In The World,
However the COA does show a serial number for some reason
