Airline Guitars were guitars made in the United States from 1958-68 by VALCO and sold through Montgomery Ward. VALCO also made National and SUPRO brands. Today they are played by bands and artists including David Bowie, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Calexico but are most commonly associated with Jack White of The White Stripes. Original Res-O-Glas models now sell for $2,000-$3,000. The guitar is named after legendary bluesman and slide guitar artist J.B. Hutto.
Reissue
They have recently been reissued by Eastwood Guitars under the name of Airline DLX. However, the reissue has many noticeable modifications: the guitars are now made of wood instead of the original Res-o-Glass material, have different tuning heads, different pickups (original pickups were single coils in the shape of humbuckers while the reissues have actual humbuckers) and an addition of a master volume knob located in the bottom right part of the pickguard. Eastwood also offers the model in a two pickup version and a three pickup version with an added Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.
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