Sharply pointed horns highlighted the new fashion looks of 1961 in the solidbody guitar world. In America, Gibson began implementing this design to it’s Les Pauls while in England, Burns of London began putting them on their new Bison models.

The Bison trumped Gibson’s top model, the three-pickup Custom, with four low-impedance pickups, a better vibrato system, a flashier pickguard, and a sleek tuner-post cover. After the first 50 Bisons, Burns backed it down to three pickups, a bolt-on neck, and a simpler vibrato.

While it was never the company’s best seller, it provided the most memorable image of Jim Burn’s innovative ideas. It survived the acquisition of Burns by Baldwin in 1965, but disappeared with the entire Burns line in 1970.

A new Burns London, founded in 1992, revived it as the Bison 64.