Welcome Kanto into your world and discover how things can be different.
You could be forgiven for thinking you’ve met before, but if you look closer, you’ll find a custom built guitar with a new attitude and a number of solutions to old problems.
A New Design
The solid ash (standard) body is contoured on the top and back for comfort. The upper frets are easily reached thanks to the gentle contouring on the upper bout and a carved neck heel. The easy-access output jack makes sure that you’ll never unplug accidentally by standing on your cord.
A Choice of Pickup Mountings
Scratch plate-loaded electrics, complete with custom hand wound pickups, are standard on the Kanto, make it possible to have multiple scratch plates with different options. Or go for direct mounted pickups for a modern, clean look.
Comfort
The 25 ½” scale, 41mm nut, stainless steel frets and a rolled edge fingerboard help make a very comfortable playing experience.
Premium Woods
Start with premium hard woods of your choice – typically ash, alder, mahogany or poplar, with a maple neck and rosewood or maple fingerboard. If you go for a figured top, you can even have the body chambered to a target weight.
High Quality Hardware
Add high quality hardware (with either hard tail or tremolo) then make your Kanto truly yours with a set of custom wound pickups that do what you need them to do, to make the music only you can make.
Burman Guitars uses hand wound pickups from UK manufacturers like Bare Knuckle, Sunbear, Old Bones and Green.
Reinforced Neck
For the true custom, top shelf experience, opt for a carbon fibre reinforced neck.
A Better Scale
If you want a more ergonomic experience and better string tension, go for a multi scale fingerboard. You may never go back to parallel frets!
Custom Finishes
Of course, the finish is what makes it stand out and demand to be played! Choose from a solid colour top to show off the grain on the back, a stain to enhance the wood’s beauty or a stunning art finish.
Prices start at £2100.
Some examples of Kanto to whet your appetite:
KANTO in dripped finish
- Ash body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard
- Sunbear Sweet 59 Transition pickups
- Three way switch (bridge, bridge + neck, neck) with blend knob for middle pickup
- Gotoh VG-300 floating tremolo; Schaller tuners
- OPTION: Dripped (Art) finish
KANTO – solid top in volcanic orange
- Ash body, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard
- 25 ½” scale
- Three way switch (bridge, bridge + neck, neck) with blend knob for middle pickup
- Gotoh VG-300 floating tremolo; Schaller tuners
- Sunbear Sweet 59 Transition pickups
KANTO – Wenge and multi scale neck
- Wenge and ash body; maple neck, wenge fingerboard
- Multiscale neck (25″ – 25 ½”)
- Gotoh Magnum locking staggered tuners
- Sunbear Bear Bucker and Fat AV pickups (Alnico V)
PRICE from £2100
Get in touch to start building your Kanto.