Kay Vintage Reissue Barney Kessel Signature "Jazz Special" Guitar FREE $250 Case - Natural Blonde

Kay Vintage Reissue "Barney Kessel Signature Jazz Special" Electric Guitar - K8700VB All Blonde - includes $250 Vintage Hard Shell Case and FREE Shipping!

After 15 years of producing award winning professional electric guitars and basses and the Barney Kessel Signature line, we will end manufacturing the limited edition Kay Vintage Reissue Production
March 31, 2022 will be the final licensed production of the 1950s Kay Vintage Reissues.
There were only 1,625 instruments produced imported and USA produced each serialized with certificates of authentication.
Kay Vintage Reissue, LLC has officially ceased the reissue manufacturing due to continually rising material and labor cost, longer manufacturing production time, shortage of skilled craftsmen builders and limited production of Kay Vintage Reissue parts and materials.
The Kay Vintage Reissue limited production was highly successful and won many awards, excellent music magazine reviews and 5 Star ratings form users and players internationally.

Meet your guitar: K8700VB
One of 18 built in 2018

The Kay Vintage Reissue Barney Kessel Jazz Special, is a limited run and is in very short supply, the factory has only 4 new instrument available.
Please Note: Used K8700V Vintage Reissues have been offered at prices that over MSRP and trending upward due to their collectability and limited production.

The Kay Barney Kessel Jazz Special comes shop adjusted, with vintage wood hardshell case and a Certificate of Authenticity showing the Serial Number and Date of Production. If you have considered owning this instrument this is the time before they are gone.

Kay Barney Kessel "Jazz Special" Guitar:
Designed in 1956, Kay is the only Guitar Company endorsed with Barney Kessel’s signature. The K8700V Jazz Special is a full 17” wide body. That rich, warm, full body depth is what the discerning Soloist, Blues Guitarist and Jazz Virtuoso have been searching for.
Barney Kessel played Kay performing live in concert and in TV appearances. The Jazz Special was reissued in response to player’s requests for this highly praised and limited instrument from the 1950’s.

About This Guitar:
This guitar features a full, master-sized jazz body... 17" wide and 2 5/8" deep. Short 24 3/4" scale for fast fingering and easy playing... same electronic equipment as the Artist and Pro. Full hollow construction assures "acoustical guitar" response and tone quality.

Available in Natural Blonde and Tobacco Sunburst.

Features:
* Body: 17" wide, single-cutaway, arched top hollow body
* Back: Parabolic arched flame maple
* Sides: Flame maple (2 5/8" Deep)
* Top: 3-ply spruce laminate
* Purfling: 4-ply black and white celluloid binding, top and back
* Pick Guard: Silver-backed acrylic with gold leaf Barney Kessel signature and "Kelvonator" Chevron
* Neck: Set cantilevered dovetail, one-piece, straight-grained Canadian maple with single-ply binding
* Frets: 22 medium nickel-silver
* Inlays: 10 block & Split-block pearloid
* Fingerboard: 24 3/4" scale rosewood fingerboard with 12" radius
* Tuning Machines: Genuine Grover "Imperial", 3 per side, chrome with chrome buttons
* Bridge and Tailpiece: Chrome individual saddle-style mounted bridge with height adjustment thumbwheels, rosewood base and unique chrome "art deco" trapeze tailpiece
* Top Nut: Bone
* Headstock: Original 3-D raised gold "K" chevron on a gold dot white luncheonette "Full Kel-von-a-tor" headstock face
* Finish Coat: High-gloss polyester protective polymer

Electronics:
* Pickups: 2 Kessel "Kleenex Box" Gold K Series single-coil with adjustable pole pieces
* Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way toggle selector
* Knobs: Transparent Amber. 2 volume, 2 tone, custom "Radio" reflector
* Output Jack: Side-mounted

MSRP $2,149.00