Classic Lap Steel! You are looking at a really cool Lap Steel guitar. This is a 1950 Supro with the original case. Other than the volume and tone knobs being replaced, this Supro appears to be all original. Even has the original cloth input jack. The sound is great. Easy and fun to play. Here is some background on Supro: From The Web: The Supro brand began in 1935 as a line of guitars being made by National-Dobro, the famous line of resonator guitars and electric slides. The Supro brand followed its brother lines as the mother company Valco was born in 1936 as part of a move from California to Chicago. Valco's name was an amalgam of Valco's primary owners first names (Victor Smith, Al Frost, and Louis Dopyera), and with the move saw a shift from acoustic instruments to amplifiers and electric instruments. It was a company that was on the cutting edge, and its innovations of this time include the first archtop with no soundhole for fighting feedback, and first 2-pickup electric guitar, a 6-coil pickup, and some of the most deluxe double and triple neck slide guitars ever produced. They embraced a very ornate, Art Deco and early Moderne look to many of their guitars, with beautiful ornate Egyptian influenced motifs for position markers and spare two tone streamline body designs that recall the designs of concept cars of the day. They were truly on the cusp of culture and taste through the 1940s. Supro lap steels are dated the same way as National and other. The serial number on that plate can be used to determine the year the. Brad's Page of Steel. By the late '50s and early '60s, Valco had grown to be an enormous manufacturer, and had several brands it was making and marketing itself, such as National and Supro, as well as a ton of others being distributed under other brands like Airline (Montgomery Wards), Oahu, Silvertone (Sears), Custom Kraft, Gretsch and many others. Many models were almost identical under different brands, often with a different logo, pickup configuration, or sometimes a different finish. Without a doubt they saved their high end models for the National and Supro brands. They made a lot of excellent guitars in this period, and some of their most collectible designs now fetch big bucks. Their 'Res-o-glass' bodied guitars, which was a method they used for making lightweight, ultra-stylized and durable bodies out of molded fiberglass, were very 'jet-age' and futuristic and very high quality. Weight: 5.15 lbs. Serial Number: V34805 Cosmetics: Good Condition. The only real issue is the former owner wrote in ink next to each fret the correct notes for tuning.
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