1962 Supro Bermuda

 

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  • Year: 1962
  • Manufacturer: Supro
  • Model: Bermuda
  • Case: None
  • Color: red
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: Supro Bermuda Model Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1962), made in Chicago, serial # G® 3158, red finish, molded fiberglass resin body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. A very rare Valco guitar, the Supro Bermuda features one of the coolest and most unusual features ever...a manually operated tremolo mounted to the pickguard. This was one of the less costly of the extensive 'Resoglass' line marketed under both the National and Supro brand names in the early 1960's, and beyond its cool kitch status is a surprisingly playable and good sounding guitar. Costing $127.50 in 1962-3 the Bermuda features two of the classic National/Supro pickups on a bright red fiberglass body with a full scale neck. The tremolo is essentially a finger tab that cuts signal from the pickups, and with a little practice one can create an amazingly useful tremolo right from the guitar! One of our favorite oddities from the always interesting Valco family.Overall length is 39 1/2 in. (100.3 cm.), 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.). All original with light average playwear; One chip to body edge below controls and the plastic back cover has a long shrinkage crack in the waist area, otherwise very well preserved. Plays and sounds excellent, the tremolo unit actually works quite well. Excellent Condition.