Kay K-300 Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1964)
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Kay K-300 Model Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1964), made in Chicago, natural lacquer finish, laminated maple body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original two-tone chipboard case.
he Kay K-300 was the Chicago company's top-of-the-line "solidbody" guitar in the early '60's, even though it's not actually solid! The guitar built on a wide, flat-topped vaguely Fender-ish chambered body with curly maple veneer on the top and back, with a large hollow space under the top. The electronics consist of two gold Kay "speedbump' pickups with individual volume and tone controls and a large "klunk" lever selector switch mounted on the tortoise pickguard acrossthe lower half. The maple neck has a bound, block inlaid fingerboard with an unusually long 26" scale while the 3-and-3 headstock is faced in tortoise celluloid and equipped with gold Kluson Deluxe tuners. This is actually one of Kay's nicer 1960's guitars, a fairly classy if slightly kitschy take on the '60's twang aesthetic.
Overall length is 38 3/4 in. (98.4 cm.), 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 26 in. (660 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.). Very nice and all original with some light wear (most notably to the thin plating on the pickup covers) but no major worn spots or repairs. The tortoise pickguard is perfect with none of the celluloid disintegration that seems to plague many of this period's Kay output. Recently refretted and had the fingerboard trued, so it plays much better than most period Kays! A neat and somewhat rare guitar, one of Kay's more interesting and certainly classier early-60's offerings, complete with the original SSC. Excellent - Condition.
he Kay K-300 was the Chicago company's top-of-the-line "solidbody" guitar in the early '60's, even though it's not actually solid! The guitar built on a wide, flat-topped vaguely Fender-ish chambered body with curly maple veneer on the top and back, with a large hollow space under the top. The electronics consist of two gold Kay "speedbump' pickups with individual volume and tone controls and a large "klunk" lever selector switch mounted on the tortoise pickguard acrossthe lower half. The maple neck has a bound, block inlaid fingerboard with an unusually long 26" scale while the 3-and-3 headstock is faced in tortoise celluloid and equipped with gold Kluson Deluxe tuners. This is actually one of Kay's nicer 1960's guitars, a fairly classy if slightly kitschy take on the '60's twang aesthetic.
Overall length is 38 3/4 in. (98.4 cm.), 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 26 in. (660 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.). Very nice and all original with some light wear (most notably to the thin plating on the pickup covers) but no major worn spots or repairs. The tortoise pickguard is perfect with none of the celluloid disintegration that seems to plague many of this period's Kay output. Recently refretted and had the fingerboard trued, so it plays much better than most period Kays! A neat and somewhat rare guitar, one of Kay's more interesting and certainly classier early-60's offerings, complete with the original SSC. Excellent - Condition.