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The latest issue of Guitar & Bass (cover date November 2014) includes a review of a new (well, upgraded) Burns guitar . The King Cobra updates the standard Cobra with enhanced build quality and a few tweaks. It gets an enthusiastic review.

Later in the mag, columnist Sid Bishop talks about influences and rates Hank and The Shads. There's a pic of the 'wooly jumpers' album cover, a red Stratocaster together with it's 'poor relation', the Hofner Colorama and one of the Marvin/Welch/Rostill/Bennett lineup (i.e., from the 'Burns' era).

Ray

I saw that review. Looks a nice guitar, especially the flamed maple top. I wonder how many Cobrs owners will want to trade up?

This one on eBay for£279

Why am I unavoidably reminded of the following guitar from nearly fifty years ago?

Those block inlays are not to my liking. Not sure what else is different to the Cobra. Did Burns use block inlays on any other models?

Billyboygretsch wrote:Those block inlays are not to my liking. Not sure what else is different to the Cobra. Did Burns use block inlays on any other models?

As far as I am aware, Burns and Burns-as-Baldwin only ever used dot markers for fret positions. Even the Gibson-styled 700 series had dot markers.