Eastwood Airline Pocket Bass

Rabs

Bridgehouse

It’s wee

Rabs

Bridgehouse said:

It’s wee

But I don't think would fit in any pocket I have 

thecolourbox

Bridgehouse said:

It’s wee

Better than being poo

ICBM

Right now that looks quite interesting to me... I can't play my bass properly with my broken arm, but I think I could just about manage something very short-scale with a skinny neck. I really don't like the 'wings' and the thumb-rests though.

I've actually been looking for one of those old Satellite/Jedson-type 24"-scale ones, but most of them on Ebay are daft prices or knackered.

Funkfingers

26.5" long, "in my pocket", huh?

You are Iggy Pop and I claim my five Pounds.

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

26.5" long, "in my pocket", huh?

You are Iggy Pop and I claim my five Pounds.

7.5” is not insignificant

Funkfingers

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

More of a full scale to Ric scale man then?

JezWynd

ICBM said:

Right now that looks quite interesting to me... I can't play my bass properly with my broken arm, but I think I could just about manage something very short-scale with a skinny neck. I really don't like the 'wings' and the thumb-rests though.

I've actually been looking for one of those old Satellite/Jedson-type 24"-scale ones, but most of them on Ebay are daft prices or knackered.

Time to give this a bump I think...

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/129492/fs-satellite-24-scale-bass#latest

Funkfingers

Time to page @vale ;

vale

"put it in your arsenal"... best place for it imo, yours not mine.

a. it's ugly as f apart from the hofner string trapeze, which is hofner's nice and not supros. and in addition to being the most hideous supro bass bodyshape by far (taurus a million times smarter) the c&w cocktail cabinet door handles and huge glow-in-the-dark spatula headstock only add insult to eye injury.

b. sounds like fifty shades of crap. neck pickup is apologetic low-end muffle, negligible mids and clanky high twang. piezo bridge far better, but ultimately just sounds like baritone with the tone rolled back. zero bass frequencies and all-out total top spank.

c. "let's say you're 10 and/or just starting out..."
just price checked: let's say it's £800/$900 and you are drunk, sir!

d. in its favour the neck looks nice and slim, that i like.

in sum, probably the worst looking and sounding shortscale bass out there. but if you're a supro obssessive or deaf, get in.

squier shortscale jaguar bass £200 (miles better), gretsch junior jet shortscale bass £260 (miles better), epiphone eb0 shortscale bass £200 (miles better). all cheaper, all better.
and if you want semi-acoustic the hofner shortscale basses £260 too (light years better, but i'm hofner-biased so not entirely impartial).

ICBM

But apart from that, do you like it?



£800??!! I couldn’t find a price with a quick search, but that’s delusional...

stickyfiddle

I'm with @vale - you'd be better off with any of those listed, or an Ashbory

Bridgehouse

When’s yours being delivered @vale?

vale

@ICBM

"Final price will be only $899 (less deposit) + shipping and will include a custom hardshell case." https://eastwoodcustoms.com/projects/airline-pocket-bass/

re my barely-concealed disenthusiasm...
first they annoyed me by remaking the pocket not the taurus, which is the sexy supro/lexington i actually like (disappoint me = instant war footing), then on watching the review i was frankly amazed that it sounds even worse than it looks.
on paper it seems to spec agreeably but i can't hear it at all.
then i found that price it was 'red mist' re criticism.

maybe it's harsh (or just hard but fair) and i should revise, but that was my instant instinctive response so maybe it's ok.

did you hear anything above overwhelmingly mediocre?

@Bridgehouse

because i'm extravagance made flesh...
i have ordered
two.
and because i'm a vengeful sadist...
they're being delivered
to you.

ICBM

vale said:

@ICBM

"Final price will be only $899 (less deposit) + shipping and will include a custom hardshell case." https://eastwoodcustoms.com/projects/airline-pocket-bass/

re my barely-concealed disenthusiasm...
first they annoyed me by remaking the pocket not the taurus, which is the sexy supro/lexington i actually like (disappoint me = instant war footing), then on watching the review i was frankly amazed that it sounds even worse than it looks.
on paper it seems to spec agreeably but i can't hear it at all.
then i found that price it was 'red mist' re criticism.

maybe it's harsh (or just hard but fair) and i should revise, but that was my instant instinctive response so maybe it's ok.

I thought it was one of the best reviews I've read .

The price is bonkers. I was seriously expecting £399 or something...

Is it from the same clowns that have "reissued" the Supro amps at eye-watering prices? Someone I know (a member here) has got one... it's not a bad amp, in fact it's very pretty and sounds decent enough - although nothing like an original - but new they were something like £1200! Utterly ludicrous for something with about the build quality of an Epiphone Valve Junior on a larger scale - and it was with me because it broke (not badly) due to an assembly flaw. Fortunately he didn't pay anything like that, it was a swap for something he would have been lucky to get even half that price for.

Bridgehouse

@vale ;

I have both gone right off you and admire you for your cunning now.

polotska

ICBM said:

Is it from the same clowns that have "reissued" the Supro amps at eye-watering prices? Someone I know (a member here) has got one... it's not a bad amp, in fact it's very pretty and sounds decent enough - although nothing like an original - but new they were something like £1200! Utterly ludicrous for something with about the build quality of an Epiphone Valve Junior on a larger scale - and it was with me because it broke (not badly) due to an assembly flaw. Fortunately he didn't pay anything like that, it was a swap for something he would have been lucky to get even half that price for.

No, Eastwood Guitars isn’t affiliated with the current incarnation of Supro Amps. The folks behind Pigtronix bought the Supro brand from Bruce Zinky (ex-Fender amps—designer of the Tonemaster, Pro-Sonic, etc.) 4–5 years ago, and I believe Zinky had a hand in designing some of the relaunched Supro range.

thecolourbox

Rabs said:

Bridgehouse said:

It’s wee

But I don't think would fit in any pocket I have 

You need deep pockets for one of these

ICBM

polotska said:

No, Eastwood Guitars isn’t affiliated with the current incarnation of Supro Amps. The folks behind Pigtronix bought the Supro brand from Bruce Zinky (ex-Fender amps—designer of the Tonemaster, Pro-Sonic, etc.) 4–5 years ago, and I believe Zinky had a hand in designing some of the relaunched Supro range.

Useful to know, thanks! I knew Zinky had designed the new Supros, but I didn't know anything about the company.

Similar marketing model though, by the look of it... retro styling, not very retro sounds, stupid prices.