Kauffman Kremo-Kustom Double-Neck 1966 Cream

Unique and All Original Kremo-Kustom Double Neck Guitar Designed and Built by Doc Kauffman "From an Old Generation of Tinkerers"
1966 Kauffman Kremo-Kustom Double-Neck
This unique 'modern abstract' single cutaway solid body, Kremo-Kustom double-neck weighs just 9.40 lbs. and is just one of eight Kremo-Kustom guitars that were made between 1955 and 1968. Designed and built by Doc Kauffman, this guitar features a 'modern-abstract', solid maple body with rounded edges and two futuristic headstocks - both joined to their respective neck by the Kaufmann 'Finger-Joint' system. Both of the necks are hand-carved from solid maple - the six-string neck has a wonderful thick profile. The twelve-string neck has a medium-to-thick profile and both necks have a nut width of just under 1 3/4 inches and a short scale length of 23 inches. Both necks have rosewood fingerboards with two-layer bone nuts, a 'zero' fret and 22 medium-jumbo frets and cream dot position markers and side-dot markers. The six-string headstock has the "Kremo-Kustom / by Kauffman / Design Recorded" gold, red and black decal. The 'slotted' six-string headstock has Individual Waverly open-back tuners with oval metal buttons and the twelve-string headstock has side-mounted Waverly, open-back strip tuners with oval cream plastic buttons. Each neck secured to the body by four large screws. Both necks have their 'circular' truss-rod adjustment at the neck end. The six-string guitar has two Kauffman Kremo-Kustom Single-Coil pickups with cream 'ridged' plastic covers and outputs of 5.93k and 5.56k. The twelve-string guitar with a single Kauffman Kremo-Kustom Single-Coil pickup with cream 'ridged' plastic cover and an output of 5.88k. Each of the pickups is height adjustable and each has an oval black plastic surround secured by three screws. One single-layer black plastic 'heart-shaped' pickguard with three screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone) plus three-way 'neck' selector slider switch, all mounted on pickguard. Two-way pickup selector slide switch on bass side of body. Cream plastic 'conical' shaped control knobs with ribbed sides and single red line marker. The six-string guitar with a chrome-plated, heavy brass, pre-ridged, height adjustable bridge and the Kauffman 'Vibrola' tailpiece with its original chrome-plated cover engraved "VIB-ROLA" and secured to top of body by two screws. The twelve-string guitar with a chrome-plated, heavy brass, pre-ridged, height adjustable bridge on a rosewood base with its original chrome-plated cover engraved with a "K" and secured to top of body by two screws. This unique guitar is in all original, (8.75) excellent plus condition. Housed in the original Kauffman three-latch, rectangular brown hardshell case with red plush lining (9.00). (#1481)