Airline Swiss cheese guitar

[GGJaguar]

Lightweight, I imagine.

 

[Guildedagain]

They should invent a thing and call it Resophonic? ;]

 

[Uke]

I think today my gray matter is running a little slow. First I couldn't figure out how someone could cut their thumb on a mandolin (super high action, super tension strings ??) and then this: What's the deal with swiss cheese served on airlines? Slow Monday!

 

[dreadnut]

I believe that was a mandoline...

 

[mcarter]

Holy shit

 

[Neal]

That is a man with too many hole saws and too much time on his hands.

I'm assuming a man did it...

 

[spoox]

I know I've seen the Supro and Airline pocket basses chambered like that from the factory:

 

[GGJaguar]

That is a man with too many hole saws and too much time on his hands.

It's a factory job!

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

That is a man with too many hole saws and too much time on his hands.

I wouldn't think those "holes" were cut with a hole saw. To cut a hole with a hole saw you have to go all the way through the material to remove the "plug". I would think these recesses were cut with a large spade bit.

 

[Neal]

Point well taken. A really large paddle bit.

 

[Walter Broes]

A lot of Valco (Supro, National, Airline,..) bodies were built like that, and they don't come out as light as you'd think. They must have used something like solid maple on them.