Burns article from August 1979

[JimN]

JN

[RayL]

Jim,
Interesting article. The cropping means that the references to The Burns Book by Paul Day are partly lost but that book, together with those new Burns models, was undoubtedly the reason for giving such a lavish spread in the magazine.

Unfortunately, the Steer and the Scorpion were just too unusual in their looks to get wide acceptance and with far eastern guitars (based on Fender and Gibson designs) beginning to flood in, British manufacturers had a hard time. Jack Golder and Norman Houlder soldiered on for a few more years with Shergold but Norman emigrated in the 1980s because of the lack of money coming in and Jack was reduced to making kitchen furniture.

Ray

[Uncle Fiesta]

I'll bet it was really GOOD kitchen furniture though!

[JimN]

Jim,
Interesting article. The cropping means that the references to The Burns Book by Paul Day are partly lost but that book, together with those new Burns models, was undoubtedly the reason for giving such a lavish spread in the magazine.

Unfortunately, the Steer and the Scorpion were just too unusual in their looks to get wide acceptance and with far eastern guitars (based on Fender and Gibson designs) beginning to flood in, British manufacturers had a hard time. Jack Golder and Norman Houlder soldiered on for a few more years with Shergold but Norman emigrated in the 1980s because of the lack of money coming in and Jack was reduced to making kitchen furniture.

Ray

One of the images is cropped on my phone, but not on a proper computer. But OK, I'll send a different link to that particular one.

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