Kay Vintage Reissue K161VCS "Thin Twin" - Used - Cherry Sunburst - Guitar With Matching Hard Shell Case
This guitar is used, exhibits some minor finish flaws but is 100% playable and sounds & plays amazing! Finish is imperfect with "orange peel" appearance, box burn on the back (not buckle rash from playing but from sliding around inside shipping box), small stress fracture at the nut on side of neck, small fracture near lower bout (hard to see unless lit well) and a small chip in the headstock chevron (refer to photos for detail).
About the THIN TWIN: The K161 Kay Thin Twin electric guitar was originally introduced in 1952 and was known as the "Jimmy Reed" or "Howlin' Wolf" model.
T Bone Burnett played a Thin Twin to back up Robert Plant and Allison Krause at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
The Thin Twin was the first guitar able to create that unique blues sound from the special Kay interior bracing that made the instrument a favorite among blues players as well as rockers of the '50s and '60s.
The Thin Twin got its name from its two blade pickups, known for their distinctive clean, sharp, sustaining sound. The Thin Twin's hollowbody chamber parallel bracing produces that gutsy, bluesy, raw sound, creating a clean natural distortion with minimal feedback.
Features: * Body: Single-cutaway, tone-chambered, hollowbody acoustic with special feedback-resistant bracing. * Back: Parabolic arched maple * Sides: Maple * Top: 3-ply flamed maple * Purfling: Multi-ply checkerboard celluloid binding * Neck: Set one-piece, straight-grained Canadian maple with single-ply binding * Frets: 20 medium nickel-silver * Inlays: 6 block pearloid * Fingerboard: 26" scale rosewood fingerboard with 12" radius * Tuning Machines: Vintage-style, 3 per side * Bridge and Tailpiece: Chrome individual saddle-style mounted bridge with height adjustment thumbwheels and chrome trapeze tailpiece * Top Nut: Bone * Headstock: Original gold chevron displaying 3-D raised "Kel-von-a-tor" style emblem * Finish Coat: High-gloss polyester protective polymer
