1950s Kay Value Leader
Another Kay joined the collection today, a Kay Value Leader thinline guitars are from the late 1950s/early 1960s. This guitar has a laminated maple top and maple fingerboard, with a metal "checkerboard" style pickguard and a tobacco sunburst finish. It's part of the guitar is one of the "Thin Lone" family of guitars produced by Kay based around the same basic body style, that includes the Style Leader range and the famous K-161 Thin Twin Jimmy Reed or Howlin Wolf model. The pick ups on this guitar are single coil De Armond "hot" pickups, with the coil wound directly onto the magnet and in fact are a bar magnet under the strings. Sweet...
