Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

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Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

Postby RayL » 04 Oct 2014, 21:03

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).

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Re: Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

Postby Mikey » 05 Oct 2014, 16:15

I saw that review. Looks a nice guitar, especially the flamed maple top. I wonder how many Cobrs owners will want to trade up?
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Re: Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

Postby Billyboygretsch » 05 Oct 2014, 16:38

This one on eBay for£279
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Re: Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

Postby JimN » 05 Oct 2014, 17:09

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

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Re: Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

Postby Billyboygretsch » 07 Oct 2014, 14:42

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?
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Re: Review of Burns 'King Cobra'

Postby JimN » 07 Oct 2014, 16:35

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.
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