Kay Thin Twin - USA Recording Series Custom Electric Guitar, from Kay

Here's the T-Bone Burnett Special! This custom shop USA Made Thin Twin a real preasure to play!  It's amzing how true to the original they get with this re-issued model.  Roger Fritz, Master Luthier base din California, does an amazing job working out all the finest details of the build, from precise inlays, to the best tones woods.

Are you looking for that vintage Kay tone and a guitar that likely plays better than the original? Here ya go!  Give Sound Pure a call or send us an email to get more info on the amazing custom shop guitar

This Custom Shop Thin Twin is handcrafted by luthier Robert Fritz in Mendocino, California.

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 Krauss 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 hollow-body chamber parallel bracing produces that gutsy, bluesy, raw sound, creating a clean natural distortion without feedback.

* 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

Electronics:

* Pickups: 2 chrome Thin Twin single-coil Blade pickups

* Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way bat-style toggle selector

* Output jack: Side-mounted