This design is based around the early 60’s Silvertone Jupiter H49, but actually stays in tune! (unlike the old ones)
Eastwood Airline Jupiter Pro in Good condition. Guitar has light but noticeable finish scratching, especially on the back of the body and headstock, as well as one small ding near the tailpiece. Also missing the original "Airline" headstock logo. Otherwise in very good shape and working perfectly.
Setup with 10-46 strings, a straight neck, accurate intonation, and low action that plays cleanly up the neck with no noticeable fret buzz when amplified.
Pickups have a cool vintage tone with some interesting variations possible in the middle position by using the blender knob. These are Alnico5, and try to sound like the old DeArmond rubber ferrite pickups - they are brighter, and more modern sounding than DeArmonds. The imbedded video demo is pretty accurate, you can make it sound like that easily.
Eastwood upgraded the existing Airline Jupiter to create the Jupiter PRO, with these features:
- Unique “blend” control that pans between the two pickups when the flipper is in the center position. Ranges from hi-tone bridge pickup to neck pickup with the tone rolled off. dial in a wide variety of tones.
- Tone Pros Tun-o-matic, instead of wooden bridge. Allows intonation per string changed to match whatever string sets used (wound or unwound G, etc.)
- Maple set-neck (instead of bolt-on)
- Upgraded the hardware to create a solid, tour worthy guitar. Most noticeable with the sturdy metal tail piece.
Dual Airline Argyle pickups, three way flipper switch, two volume, two tone controls and “blend” control.
Ships in/with gig bag with extra neck cradle to support the neck better, and hold in place more. The bag is sized for a dreadnought acoustic, which is a little large for the Eastwood Jupiter Pro's lower bout measurement of 15" (yep, 2" wider than a Les Paul & 3" wider than a Tele - the two most common single cutaway cases...)
Body: Hollow-body, Maple Top, Back, Mahogany Sides
Neck: Bound Maple, SET neck
Fingerboard: Rosewood, Block Markers
Scale Length: 25 1/2″
Width at Nut: 1 5/8″
Pickups: Dual Airline Argyle
Switching: 3-Way Flipper
Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, 1 Blend
Bridge: Tone Pros Tune-O-Matic
Hardware: Gotoh style Chrome tuning machines