It’s a hefty axe, weighing just north of eight pounds, but the tonal advantages of tonewood over fiberglass are obvious. 1966 Airline JB Hutto Jack White Resoglas Guitar With Original Hardshell Case. Unlike the Res-O-Glas originals, however, Eastwood makes the body from mahogany. Oblivians – “I Don’t Wanna Live Alone” from Play 9 Songs With Mr. The Airline ’59 3P with three pickups and seven knobs is offered in white, metallic blue, seafoam green, and a snazzy gold-flake finish.Oblivians – “Christina” from Popular Favorites.
2002 The White Stripes: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (Video short) Jack White. But the white one just wasn’t the same it wouldn’t stay in tune.” Woman (singing voice, uncredited) 2002 The White Stripes: Were Going to Be Friends (Video short) Jack White. “I found a white three-pickup version with gold trim and a Bigsby whammy bar,” says Yarber, “so I sold Jack my old one for a couple hundred bucks. Its gnarled tone was the essence of Yarber’s dual guitar and drums blues punk trio, the Oblivians, a band that influenced White as much as such similarly iconoclastic roots-shredding groups of the era as the Gories, ’68 Comeback and the Flat Duo Jets. Between 19, Airline guitars made Res-O-Glas.
It comes with its Eastwood Hard case (new as well) which is £135 on its own. During Jack White’s years in The White Stripes, he became well known for using cheap off-brand guitars such as his Kay Archtop and his Crestwood Astral II, but his most famous example was his Airline guitar. It has a hollow Res-O-Glas fiberglass body, two Valco single coil pickups (even though they look like humbuckers), and an non-adjustable steel reinforced neck. The guitar was made by Valco, a company that is better known for making National and Supro guitars before it’s demise in 1968. This guitar is brand new and in immaculate condition. This has been Jack’s main guitar with the White Stripes. This is the modern reedition of Jack Whites guitar in the White Stripes era. There was something special about this garish fiberglass git-box, says the Memphis, Tennessee-based Jack Yarber - otherwise known as Jack Oblivian - who White eventually convinced to sell the guitar. Eastwood Airline 59 2P Electric Guitar in red. Over at the Metro Times, Michael Hurtt tells the story of how Jack White acquired his two pick-up, red-and-white Airline guitar: