This is a great vintage 1967 model guitar from the original Baldwin Burns 60’s line of “Bison” Electric Guitars. Serial number 20551. It has some age but it’s held up well for almost 50 years. The headstock has never been broken. There’s a very minor amount of scratchy sound in the pots which is great considering how old it is. The bridge springs could use some adjustment I believe. There’s a couple mismatched tuners. I never got around to really fixing it up. It remained untouched for years. But it looked great on my wall. I figure it would be put to better use to someone who wants to play it. It has no case. Re-issues of this guitar in top condition are going for thousands of dollars on Ebay. The re-issues hit pretty big some years ago. I have several re-issues I gigged with all the time. They’re great, stay in tune and look rad. But I still love the vintage models better. Personally I think the imperfections and cracks in the finish give it character. Some info on the original Baldwin Burns "Bison" Guitar.
The Baldwin "Bison" was the final version from the Burns era introduced in ’64. This had the dramatically inward-pointed horns of the original, but incorporated many features from the more popular Burns Marvin. The horns were roughly equal and looked a bit like a buffalo. The Baldwin Bison had a full scroll Burns headstock, large three-piece “split” laminate tortoise pickguard, three Rez-o-Matik single-coil pickups (the name is stenciled on the pickup cover), and a Rezo-tube vibrato. Earlier Burns vibratos had worked kind of like a hybrid Bigsby/Jazzmaster unit. Set in a rectangular, top-mounted housing, strings wrapped around a bar to which the handle was attached. Tension was provided by a spring attached underneath. The more recent Rezo-tube design borrowed more from the Stratocaster-style vibrato. The tube idea was to sink individual tubes perpendicular from the top through which each string loaded. The idea was to isolate harmonic interaction, though the net effect was not all that different from the vibrato block in a Strat. This attachment assembly then connected to three tension springs functioning pretty much like on a Strat. Early Rezo-tube vibratos used during the transitional period from Burns to Baldwin were noticeably longer (approximately 6″) than later versions. Usually a plastic gasket surrounded the back end of these units. An odd twin-bar assembly was mounted diagonally over the Rezo-tube back, function unknown (perhaps to eliminate accidental touching of the vibrato while adjusting control knobs?). The Bison offered considerable tonal flexibility with one volume and two tone controls, like on a Strat, but with two separate three-way selectors to provide different pickup combinations. The Bison came in black or white finishes, and remains one of Burns’ most interesting designs.Email me with any questions. I can provide more links to the history of this amazing guitar.