hiar
Nov-28-2012, 11:46am
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I recently picked up this Kentucky, but unlike every one I saw in 10+ years of working retail a while back, this has no label/serial number/model number. My Google search turns up similar examples, but there's always at least one feature that doesn't match: fretboard curve, headstock inlay, metal-part plating, etc. (Somehow I didn't hoard a pile of Saga catalogs for their escalating collectibility value...)
My guess that it's lower end as F-models go: unfigured maple; top seems to be solid spruce; tuner plates and tailpiece cover are lightly stamped; the fretboard end has French curve rather than the fully-shaped finger extension; rosewood fretboard and bridge. Photos show it a little darker than in real life (the lighter part of the sunburst is a little yellower.) It's in great shape, making me think it's not too old (although the strings it came with were pretty bad--not sure if that was age or cheap-itude).
Any insight from the learned Kentucky aficionados will be appreciated.
I recently picked up this Kentucky, but unlike every one I saw in 10+ years of working retail a while back, this has no label/serial number/model number. My Google search turns up similar examples, but there's always at least one feature that doesn't match: fretboard curve, headstock inlay, metal-part plating, etc. (Somehow I didn't hoard a pile of Saga catalogs for their escalating collectibility value...)
My guess that it's lower end as F-models go: unfigured maple; top seems to be solid spruce; tuner plates and tailpiece cover are lightly stamped; the fretboard end has French curve rather than the fully-shaped finger extension; rosewood fretboard and bridge. Photos show it a little darker than in real life (the lighter part of the sunburst is a little yellower.) It's in great shape, making me think it's not too old (although the strings it came with were pretty bad--not sure if that was age or cheap-itude).
Any insight from the learned Kentucky aficionados will be appreciated.