What is this? Vintage Hollowbody Content

[waltdogg]

My drummer friend's been sitting on this old hollowbody for a while now. It needs some work, but he's been wanting to sell it except we have no idea what it is. Nothing stamped anywhere, no label inside, nothing. Any idea what it is? I recognize the "tone" switch but I don't remember where I've seen it. I tried my luthier friend, haven't heard back from him. Tried my friend that knows weird guitars (and stole $150, two EL34s, and a Boss TU-3 from me) and he is obviously silent.

[kosta]

I'd guess Kay. Looks like a mutt somewhere between a Value Leader and a Speed Demon.

Single pickup version here being referred to as a Speed Demon:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3hlXnnEDBg[/youtube]

[Nelson Instruments]

That's for sure a kay "speed bump" pickup on there. Weird....it's a speed demon but with a rounded horn on the cutaway. There's a new one on me!

[waltdogg]

Cool. I'll do some research into Kays then. Here's another pic of the body with better light if that's anymore help to you guys. Thanks for your help so far!

[Nelson Instruments]

For sure a Kay. That pickup is undeniably Kay.

[kosta]

Yeah, definitely a Kay. Single dot fret markers, no neck binding, double body binding, tobacco burst, cupcake knobs, trapeze tailpiece, speed bump pickups. Definitely a Kay. If the neck and frets are decent, I bet that thing would be pretty great.

[Chankgeez]

What's goin' in that neck pickup slot?

[waltdogg]

Awesome. I know my "friend" has some Kay catalogs, probably where I recognized it from. If he ever gets back to me we might get the exact model.

It plays rather nice. It just needs the truss rod adjusted to straighten the neck out.

I'd hope to find another one of these "speed bump" pickups.

[Nelson Instruments]

They come up on ebay frequently so you won't be without one for long.

[waltdogg]

Good to know. Thanks so much! With any luck we can figure out a model so we can price it realistically since it's a bit of a beater.