1950s Kay Cutaway Jumbo Archtop Electrified Guitar

Overview: This giant old Kay jumbo archtop (17" lower bout) has solid, press-arched spruce for the top and ply maple for the back and sides. It sounds nice as an acoustic but a minihumbucker, jazz-style pickup was fit at some point and that makes it into a great, all-around plugged-in jazzbox as well. It's clean and clear and crisp straight-up but can be tailored to suit any style with EQ adjustments. 

Interesting features: The bound, aftermarket pickguard is a nice touch. The big-block fretboard inlay and cutaway body shape are also nice upgrades over the "usual Kay fare" stylistically. It has multi-ply binding on the top and back and the headstock medallion is still in good order.

Repairs included: Manny gave this a level/dress of the frets and some setup work. It's now playing spot-on and ready to serve.

• Weight: 5 lbs 2 oz
• Scale length: 25 3/4"
• Nut width: 1 13/16"
• Neck shape: medium-full C
• Board radius: 9 1/2"
• Body width: 17"
• Body depth: 3 1/2"
• Body wood: solid spruce top over ply back/sides
• Bridge: adjustable rosewood
• Fretboard: rosewood
• Neck wood: maple
• Pickups: 1x thin humbucker at neck
• Action height at 12th fret: 1/16” overall (fast, spot-on)
• String gauges: 50w-11 with wound G
• Truss rod: non-adjustable
• Neck relief: straight
• Fret style: wider/lower

Condition notes: The pickguard, pickup, and jack are all unoriginal, of course. The rest appears to be original, however. We adjusted compensation at the bridge, too, so it plays in-tune with a wound-G set. If you're a plain-G player, we can adjust for that if desired. The guitar itself shows mild/average usewear throughout via small scratches, scuffs, and whatnot but overall looks pretty dang spiffy for its age.

It comes with: It's got a gigbag or chip case of some sort, as I recall.

Consignor tag: LCLAT