Talk:Airline (brand)

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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the reissues actually do use single coil pickups, just in a humbucker-like casing. At least form what I've heard.67.128.254.171 23:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Their website says the pickups are Alnico Hot-10 Humbuckers. Gumdropster 17:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes! It does now that I look at it. It was actually www.myrareguitars.com that sell SC pickups in HB casing pickups that I had gotten confused with. I don't think they came with them though.

David Bowie

I think that David Bowie's guitarist actually uses an Eastwood. Gumdropster 17:45, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Comments in article

I am moving the following text from the article to the talk page. As written, it is commentary and better suited for the talk page. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

While the above information is "possibly" true about the source for the "resin body" electrics , it is totally false in regards to the Airline wood body "electric", "acoustic" and "acoustic electric" guitars. Also, "Airline" brand was registered by Montgomery Wards store company and not Valco; as this brand was used on instruments made by Harmony and Kay, both competitors. There is plenty of documentation on this on the internet and in books on vintage American made guitars.

This from an online article on the Airline guitars - "Airline was a Montgomery Ward house brand, and during the ‘60s, practically all Airline guitars were made either by the Harmony or Kay companies of Chicago. The date on the back of your Airline guitar's pickup suggests that it is a DeArmond pickup on a Harmony-made guitar. The date on the pickup would be the date of manufacture of the pickup, not the entire guitar. Almost all pickups on Harmony electric guitars were made by the old Rowe-DeArmond company of Toledo, Ohio, who often stamped the date on the back.

The guitar itself would have been completed in Chicago some time after 11-22-63. Harmony guitars may have a small, faint date stamp inside the body, such as “F-63” (Fall 1963) or “S-64” (Spring/Summer 1964). These date stamps are sometimes followed by a few additional letters or numbers that apparently are some sort of production code.

There is no way to determine the exact day of manufacture of Harmony products, and Kay products usually can't even be precisely dated to a specific year, except by identifying the model from vintage catalogs.

Harmony model numbers usually appear as “#####H###,” where the digits following the “H” are the model number and those ahead of the “H” are some other sort of production code. Guitars made by Harmony for other marketers, such as Ward's/Airline sometimes vary slightly in the model numbering schemes, but the date stamps, if there, are usually accurate." Ref -(Expert: Bill Ruxton - 5/14/2006)

Further references that Airline guitars were made not by Valco, but by Harmony or Kay, of Chicago: 1) Harmony made guitars. Brand : Airline Distributed by Montgomery Wards 2) http://www.broadwaymusicco.com/Harmony25.htm

3) And right in the Wikipedia, references to Kay making some of the Montgomery Wards Airline guitars and amps - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Musical_Instrument_Company

—The preceding text was posted on Airline (guitar) by Websterphreaky (talk⋅contribs), 21:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC).

The "Res-O-Glas Guitars by Guitar Kits USA" section of the article

If I'm not mistaken, this section reads like blatant advertising for "Guitar Kits USA" and is not in accordance with the encyclopedic spirit of wikipedia. Should this section be modified or removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.59.245.103 (talk) 22:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, and this has been deleted along with some other unsourced content. GigglesnortHotel (talk) 13:38, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Res-O-Glas Photo

My photo, [File:OmahaEastwood.jpg] found posted in this article is actually that of a reissued Fender Coronado (Eastwood Coronado DLX), not of a Valco Airline. It does, indeed, have a Res-O-Glas appearance, however - which is akin to the Airline.

For that reason, the photo has been removed.

Fortlansing (talk) 20:19, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Update: Nevermind, I guess Eastwood decided that they append Airline, a brand of the defunct Valco onto the Coronado, a model of Fender Guitars to create this hybrid. *slaps cheek thrice*.

Fortlansing (talk) 20:24, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Update:

As mentioned by a previous post, I also noticed the advertisement feel to the Guitar Kits USA section and removed the following:

"Like the old Valco guitars, Guitar Kits USA bodies are manufactured in the United States, and are made to accept standard Fender-sized 2-3/16" wide bolt-on electric guitar necks."

Fortlansing (talk) 15:26, 11 August 2012 (UTC)