Description
Beautiful guitar made in Chicago in the 1930’s. I have the Venetian model from this same time period. Same gold leaf stencil. This still plays beautifully especially for a 90 year old.
Made in Chicago, sunburst lacquer with stenciling finish, spruce top, mahogany back and sides, with mahogany neck.
A good example of the original Stromberg-Voisinet designed Kay line of round hole archtops. Bound sunburst top, back and fingerboard. Elaborate gold stencil Indian head and leaf decoration on the top similar to Lyon & Healy work. Dark sunburst mahogany finish on the neck, back and sides. The bolt on adjustable neck has a huge wing nut on neck block, which actually works. The white pearloid headstock features a gold-painted raised “Kay Kraft” logo and edge decoration. Original tuners
Action is very playable, intonation is good, neck is a modern C profile and guitar sounds amazing.
Overall length is 40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm.), 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 25 1/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 1 7/8 in. (48 mm.). Has lots of chips, scratches, finishing checking and general wear and tear – but that just adds to the character. No cracks that I can detect. Ships in a cheapo non-original chip case.
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