50s Kay Archtop Professional Rebuild Solid Birch Massive Neck Wonderful Instrument
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This is a 1950s Kay built archtop of unknown brand with solid birch construction. This guitar was played a lot, the finish has plenty of dings, scratches and a couple of repaired cracks but is in remarkably good condition. It had some dried out glue in a few places that have been fixed and is now tight and stable.
The poplar neck was previously fixed with a carriage bolt installed through the fretboard, which I removed and repaired with a dowel and a patch. I gave the walnut fretboard (25-3/4” scale) a fresh 12” radius and New Jescar 47104 frets, then re-set it perfectly. It has a new 1-11/16" bone nut, new locking vintage-style tuners matched to my compensated aluminum lightening bridge and original trapeze. It has a very large C carve with no trussrod, the action is electric guitar-like low and easy.
I installed one of my hand wound Type13SC gold foil pickups that works great with this big body giving it a clean, rich and full sound.
These guitars were designed for sitting around and strumming in a different era a long time ago that had different musical demands. This is a beautiful guitar professionally rebuilt that you can plug in and strum right now- it plays great and will continue to play great for a long time.
No International shipping – lower USA 40 only
Set up with .010 - .046 strings
Gig bag included
Solid birch construction
Very large C carve / 12” radius
25 3/4"” scale
New bone nut @ 1-11/16”
New neck reset- poplar neck with walnut fretboard
New Jescar 47104 frets
New locking vintage style tuners
New compensated aluminum lightening bridge
Malinoski Type13SC single coil silverfoil pickup
Weight 4 lbs
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| Listed | 2 months ago |
| Condition | Good (Used) Good condition items function properly but may exhibit some wear and tear.Learn more |
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