Vintage Shortscale Supro Bass Guitar

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:26 pm

What is the scale length on these old Supro basses?

I wonder if the one in the auction(above) was originally an Airline made for Montgomery Ward?

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:28 pm

Mezz, delete this shit.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:02 am

it appears to be very short. like that looks like it would be shortscale even for a guitar.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:03 am

mage wrote:it appears to be very short. like that looks like it would be shortscale even for a guitar.

I think they have 25" scale neck.They called them pocket basses

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:53 am

while googling about:

sure it's unrelated but fuck it's gorgeous.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:51 pm

been drooling over a Airline Town & Country from the 1960's they have here at a local shop. Never quite have the cash to buy it, even if it's at 790/890 euros. Something else always comes up that sucks up my savings. Thankfully no-one else seems to be interested in the said instrument, since it's been around the shop for some time now.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:12 am

I found an interesting article about these here
http://www.myrareguitars.com/supropocketbass.html

Sidney Vicious · Post by **Sidney Vicious** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:05 pm

[quote="hotrodperlmutter"]while googling about:

sure it's unrelated but fuck it's gorgeous."

Beautiful - a one pickup - and a humbucker at that.