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K161-VB Single Cutaway Electric Guitar

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The K161 Kay Thin Twin Electric Guitar was originally introduced in 1952 and was known as the “]immy Reed" or "Howlin' Wolf" model. The Thin Twin was the first guitar to be able to create that unique blues sound from the special interior Kay bracing which made this instrument a favorite among blues players and both emerging and famous rockers of the 50's and 6... Read more
The K161 Kay Thin Twin Electric Guitar was originally introduced in 1952 and was known as the “]immy Reed" or "Howlin' Wolf" model. The Thin Twin was the first guitar to be able to create that unique blues sound from the special interior Kay bracing which made this instrument a favorite among blues players and both emerging and famous rockers of the 50's and 60's. The name "Thin Twin" referred to the two blade pickups, providing a clean, sharp biting sustaining sound unlike any instrument made.The Thin Twin's hollow body chamber parallel bracing produces that "Gutsy-Bluesy-Raw" sound, creating a clean natural distortion without feedback. Collapse text

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Key features

  • Body: Single cutaway, tone chambered, hollow body acoustic type, with special feedback-resistant bracing. Parabolic arched maple back, maple sides, 3-ply curly maple top
  • Purfling: Multi-ply checkerboard celluloid binding
  • Neck: Set one-piece straight-grained Canadian Maple with single-ply binding,20 medium nickel-silver frets and 6 block pearloid inlays
  • Fingerboard: 26" scale rosewood fingerboard with 12“ radius
  • Tuning Machines: Vintage style,3 on a side
  • Bridge & Tailpiece: Chrome individual saddle style mounted bridge with height adjustment thumbwheels and chrome trapeze tailpiece
  • Electronics: 2 chrome Thin Twin single coil blade pickups,individual volume controls, 2 individual tone controls, 3-way toggle selector with baseball bat style switch cap, 4 cupcake knobs,side mounted output jack
  • Pickguards: Black and Cherry Red Sunburst have single-ply cream color with crest logo and the Blonde model has tiger stripe tortoise shell
  • Top Nut: 1-11/16" Bone
  • Headstock: Original gold "K" chevron displaying 3-D rised "Kel-von-a-tor" style emblem
  • Finish Coat: High-gloss polyester protective polymer
  • Case: Kay vintage hardshell case included
  • Color: Blonde
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