The neck is Mahogany, with a Rosewood fingerboard, and the head plate is white with a raised Airline logo. There’s a New York style mini humbucker at the neck, a piezo pickup in the biscuit bridge, with volume, tone and blend controls on the lower edge. It was entirely acoustic, and never had pickups.Įastwood has now launched the updated Airline Folkstar, with a chambered Mahogany body, a gloss solid colour finish, a rubber bumper strip around the edges, and a pair of pickups. The original Airline Folkstar used Valco’s Res-O-Glas body construction – fiberglass resin on wood – with a single resonator cone. The Airline Folkstar, improved and re-issued by the Eastwood guitar company, brings back the 1950s Valco Folkstar resophonic aesthetic, but with a pair of pickups and a reasonable price.Īirline guitars were built by Valco, one of the largest instrument manufacturers in the world, from 1958 to 1868 when the company folded.
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