Shopping Basket (0)

Total to pay: $0.00

Kay Vintage Re-Issue Thin Twin Blonde Guitar 0609194, from Kay

Share |

+ -

(+) view full gallery

Vintage Recreation with all the mojo of the original and more

Availability:

SOLD! Contact Us for delivery estimate on a similar item

Want Expert Advice?

1-888-528-9703 (toll free)

1-919-682-5552 (international)

Email us

Kay Vintage Reissue Guitars - NAMM 2010

Products used:

More text

Less text

Kay Vintage Guitars Luthier Roger Fritz walks us through the entire line of Kay Vintage Reissue Instruments, including the Kay Electric Pro Bass, The Kay Thin Twin, the Kay Jazz II and the Jazz special. Sound Pure is a full line dealer for Kay Vintage Guitars and Bass, and is eagerly awaiting your call to discuss these fabulous reissues of a very unique instrument. Call Sound Pure today toll free 888-528-9703.

What we think:

These lo-fi sounding guitars are a must have for studios as well as certain performing artists. Get those classic Kay tones of the 50's in a new re-issue for a price that just can't be beat! True vintage Kay guitars are much more expensive, rare, and difficult to find in good condition.

Get your hands on one of these and get inspired. You'll want to venture into new (or should I say old?) territory with this axe!

Specs:

* 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

Description:

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.