1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"

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1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"

Thin Twins are one of several incomparably cool models built by Kay over the years. Check out how the firestripe pickguard glows over the curly maple ofthis oversized Les Paul style chambered-body guitar! Wow! Check out the sentence structure I just got away with! Now check out what universalmedicare did for this guitar: When we found this gem hidden in the back of a former chicken coop, the neck was painfully loose, too loose to steam off,and no amount of cursin' or sweatin' would get it free. In came Dr X, who made a midnight run and procured a half dozen radiographs from everyconceivable angle, showing all the inner workings. At Folkway we treat your guitar like a favorite pet, believing that you can always buy a new"Fluffy", but you can't just run out and buy a new '51 Thin Twin! After a just a few minutes of studying the density variation between the Brazilianrosewood, sugar maple, Honduran mahogany, and hide glue, we were able to give a simple twist to it like a Chinese puzzle and move on to resetting theneck angle and resurrecting this fine guitar.

Famously played by Jimmy Reed and Howlin' Wolf among others, the Thin Twin has fat single coil pickups, with a whole lot of fat tone. We saved theoriginal pots and caps for you and replaced them with a whole new harness, and rewound the bridge pickup. Unfortunately with a proper neckset, thebridge pickup can't get close enough to the strings to balance the volume of the neck pickup. We tried to get a solution together for this, but afterhours of scratching our heads, we've decided that it's the sort of small glitch that somebody else will have to solve. This guitar has been a labourof love, not a profitable investment!
In a decent '60s chipboard case.
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1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"
  • 1951 Kay Thin Twin "Jimmy Reed"

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