Dick’s Burns Vibra Artist. "I have David Martin to thank for letting this go to me. I'd been after one for a long time but nothing playable had ever turned up. When I walked into 2002's Shaddicts bash and saw David holding this monster, my chin hit the floor and he only stopped my drooling and blathering by offering to sell it to me. To all intents and purposes this is a new guitar, however, despite having been originally built around 1960. The reason for this is that, apparently, when  David commissioned genius builder and repairer Martin Harrison to make a new neck for it, since the old one had gone the bow-and-arrow route of many old Burnses, Martin informed him that the body was in too bad a shape to attach it to, and suggested he renew the whole thing. A brilliant job he made, too. The electrics and hardware are all original and, of course, the controls are completely beyond comprehension! This is one of my favourite guitars and I'm very proud of it. I'm a big fan of The Searchers and as this guitar played a big part in their early sound, I'm over the moon to have an operating example.  Sounds like nothing else! Weird and very wonderful."