Re: Should I buy this tenor?
A bit weird to have a "tie" bridge on a tenor guitar; you would find one on a baritone ukulele, so perhaps a hybrid of some kind? That kind of bridge is generally used for nylon strings, rather than steel, though I have an Apollonio 12-string guitar that anchors the strings to the bridge without bridge pins.
If it is a TG, bridge could be a replacement, a bari uke bridge that was put on after the original failed. Baritone ukes would almost never have truss rods, but the truss rod cover also looks after-market, so another modification? And if it had a zero fret removed, how's the intonation? I had a Harmony Stella 12-string from the 1960's that had a zero fret, but they're not common on US-made instruments.
And if it's a Kay, I assume it's plywood. To me, lotsa unanswered questions, would make me cautious about purchase. Cheap enough, but one has to wonder what will happen with steel TG strings tuned up to pitch -- or to GDAE, even more so.
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