Silvertone model 1413L Vintage "1964-65" Turquoise

Every young Troubadours' favorite page in the "Sears & Robuck" catalog, "Wish Book" as they called it. I can remember as a child around early fall retrieving that glorious thick book from the mailbox and would literally wear the ink off of the pages. So much for the nostalgia!! Here's the run-down.

• Very playable
• Action is good
• Gumby "style" Headstock
• All original, even the straight slot screws around pickguard and bridge.
• No Case or Bag
• No fret wear
• Some paint flaking around the bevel on body as they pretty much all did with age.
• Tuning keys are in remarkable condition and work well.
• Definite 60's style printed or screened arrows with lines on pickup and ashtray.
• Missing End pin strap button.

The 1413 guitar is a funky surf twanger from our friends at Kay. One pickup, volume/tone and a fixed tailpiece made this the 'budget' electric axe of the '64/'65 seasons. The predecessor to this guitar was the slab- bodied and similarly simple 1410. A contoured, beveled body and a big silvery pickup made this guitar a hot item for the couple of years it was offered, judging by today's collectors market.

Short life-span well-loved axe from Kay, the 1413 took the surf motif and ran with it, even to the sea-foam green of its finish (the catalog calls it turquoise). The 1413's most famous role was onscreen with Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters in the Tom Hanks '60s fantasy.