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Dick’s Kay Jazz II. "This is
a very similar model to the Kay Red Devil that Eric Clapton is seen
using in that first shot of him playing with The Roosters when he was a
kid. It’s a bolt-on and has an unusual, 26 inch scale. The advertising
called the neck "Slim-Lite"! Slim and light in comparison with
a telegraph pole, maybe! The pickups are good and quite individual in
tone – they’re called Gold K’s, nicknamed "Kleenex box"!
I don’t know who made them; Rowe Industries, probably. The guitar was
built in 1961, and has a "Semi-Kelvinator" headstock. These
were around from ’60 through ’61 but Kay phased them out after that
as the brand’s quality rapidly went down hill. Prior to that though,
in the Kay hey-day fifties, they built the superb, high quality Barney
Kessel models with the "Full-Kelvinator" heads and they are
just something else."
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