E.g., angle ratio between body and neck, curves on the maple top, and even the open book design on the headstock. For the Gibson copies, fortunately the most part of the design stayed the same. If you are not familiar with the "Super Grade" series, you may mistaken the words as "Luper Grade" due to it's attempt to model the words "Les Paul".
To avoid the copyright war, Fernandes began to make changes to certain parts of their design like truss rod cover, shape etc.įor the Burnys, the LP models were given the name “Super Grade” instead of “Les Paul.” The wording were crafted to look just the words "Les Paul". This saga only surfaced a decade later in the mid 80's when Fender and Gibson felt that their empire was threatened. When it began in the 70's, there were no problems with copyright issues. To date, both Fernandes and Burny are still making guitars just like their Tokai counterparts. The brand Burny was birth later by Fernandes as the division that made Gibson replicas.
Fernandes started off first in the 70's making Fender replicas. Orange Guitar is also a retailer of Burny guitarsīoth Burny and Fernandes are the same company. Here is some historical information on Burny that I had previously saved off of the internet:įind Out About Japanese Burny Guitars at
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