Supro Americana 1575JB Black Holiday Jet Black Semi Hollow Guitar & Gig Bag #774
Supro Americana 1575JB Black Holiday Jet Black Semi Hollow Guitar & Gig Bag #774
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Supro Americana 1575JB Black Holiday Jet Black & Gig Bag #774
6.88 lbs
This guitar was on display at the NAMM show. The guitar may have some minor light scratches, if any at all. Anything noteworthy will be pictured. The guitar plays fine and it fully functional. It does carry a full warranty against and defects or issues that may develop. In most cases, the protective plastic film is still on the pickguards and pickups.
This guitar has some scratches on the side contour.
Includes a Henry Heller Silver Series Deluxe Gig Bag, a $70 street price value.
- Ultra high density padding on the top, bottom and sidewalls
- 400 Denier Atomic Silver outer shell
- Carmine Red plush velvet interior
- Darker Ruby red string guards
- ergonomic padded grab handle
- 2-Inch wide sewn in cotton backpack straps
- High quality continuous coil zippers
The Americana Series guitars are replicas of the Supro “reso-glass†instruments, uniquely constructed with a chambered mahogany body and resonant molded top. This semi-hollow recipe retains the unique sonic characteristics of the vintage Supros while providing today’s musicians with a lightweight, highly playable instrument that stays in tune and is easy to maintain.
The ten distinctive models in the Americana reissue series come loaded with authentic “Vistatone†pickups, which reproduce the groundbreaking, single-coil design developed by Valco in the early 1950s. These historic reissues are available in two body styles with a range of available hardware options, including piezo body sensors and a newly developed floating vibrato system.
The Black Holiday is an all-new Supro instrument, based on the Chicago-made, reso-glass guitars of the 1960s. While the vintage Supro instruments were constructed entirely of fiberglass, our updated construction technique mates a newly developed composite “Acousti-glass†top to a chambered mahogany back for greater semi-acoustic resonance and tuning stability over the originals. The Supro Black Holiday’s Art Deco lines and two-knob control layout combine elements from several different Supro reso-glass models of the past to create a new guitar that is worthy of a place alongside the reissues of these iconic American guitars.
Vistatone Pickups
The Vistatone pickups found in the Supro Black Holiday are a faithful replica of the groundbreaking, single-coil design developed for Valco by Ralph Keller in the early 1950s. The Vistatone pickup is cited as prior art in Seth Lover’s PAF patent and is found in many of the most desirable vintage Supro models.
Legendary Sound
The Supro Black Holiday has a powerful, electric swamp-blues tone that is anything but subtle. It’s a gnarly sounding instrument that loves tube amps and fuzz pedals of all kinds. The neck pickup sounds huge and wooly, while the bridge pickup has an unmistakable midrange growl that is downright dirty.
Our semi-hollow recipe of an Acousti-glass top and semi-hollow body retains the unique sonic characteristics of the original reso-glass models while providing today’s musicians with a lightweight, highly playable instrument that stays in tune and is easy to maintain.
Features:
- Vintage Supro body design
- Jet Black finish
- Redesigned two-bolt neck joint
- Vintage-correct Vistatone pickups
- 50’s-wiring volume and tone controls
- Rosewood bridge
- Art Deco stairstep tailpiece
- Acousti-glass top
- Semi-hollow mahogany back
- Mahogany neck with dot inlays
- 24 ¾†scale
Americana Series
The Black Holiday and its relatives in the Americana Series of Supro electric guitars were designed by Trevor Wilkinson and David Koltai to capture the spirit and sound of the Art Deco-influenced, historic line of Supro instruments manufactured in Chicago by Valco during the guitar boom of the 1960s.
