Two And A Half Minutes with a Kay KE-10 Electric Guitar
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2021
- My buddy Evan brought this 1960's Kay KE-10 electric guitar to me for an overhaul...and boy did it need an overhaul! These old Kay guitars are beginner guitars in every sense of the word and not many were made well enough to survive to the present day!
This Kay KE-10 was made in Taiwan sometime in the late 1960's, and needed an entirely new wiring harness, a major setup and a new shim added to the neck pocket to allow it to be played above the 12th fret.
Now this Kay KE-10 is playable and most importantly, it's fun! Check out this very quickly recorded cell phone demo and let me know what you think!
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GREAT chops and bitchin tone. Just picked up one of these that was set up by a blind man who didn’t play guitar. But, I was able to shim the VERY STRAIGHT NECK to induce some neck angle to do a quick set up and “Bob’s your uncle!” She’s a player with a husky voice I appreciate. Great demo - thank you 🔥🎸🤘🏼😎💙
Those are some sweet licks right there! Excellent playing!
Nice work.
Thanks!
Sounds great. Much love from New Mexico hope all is well.
Thanks Jordan, you as well! We're stayin' alive up here in Kentucky!
Cool playing... and guitar 👊🎭
I found one with a one single coil pickup on it, do you recommend this brand?
These were a budget guitar when I was a teenager. They sold more acoustics at the time - you were lucky if they were playable. They tended to sound and feel more like orange boxes. Other makes were; Antoria (mostly Gibson clones and better built) CMI quite good double cutaway LP junior copies (really pretty good) Hofners were more available than Fenders and Gibsons which if you could get them were beyond most people’s means. Vox also made good electric guitars - I had a teardrop 12 string in sunburst which I bought in unplayable condition although cosmetically it was tidy. I paid £5 for it. Converted it to six string, and a music shop in Boston (uk) gave me £600. Which bought me my dream axe - a Les Paul Studio which took me 27years to get right. Issues included uneven pickups, no neck relief, bowed tunomatic bridge notchy tuners. They say never meet your idols. I didn’t mean to post an essay. Sorry!
Yamaha acoustics were becoming popular, and were good from the start. Eco were well built, but with way too much material. Heavy and thickly varnished, they looked a lot better than they sounded . They had bolt on necks, and were easily set up, but unrewarding to play. Harmony were better, Sounding, though quality was variable.
Kay instruments got a lot of people started and your video will be nostalgic to people like me (mid sixties).
You have done a commendable job of bringing this to life -and it sounds better than it would have done at the time.
Hey Ed -- I looked everywhere for really any information at all about this particular model and didn't find much of anything, so thanks a bunch for the insight! And man you aren't kidding -- the poor thing was really just not very well crafted at all, but I think it's likely because a $100 goes MUCH farther today in the world of beginner guitars than it once did -- even I remember paying about $350 for my first setup (a crappy Abilene Strat copy and a "Pyramid" amp with a "Bass Expander" circuit that literally did nothing else but make the stock 4" speaker just fart out) in the late '90s. Things have come a long way for us guitarists and we've never had it better!
This sounds like a guitar Mac DeMarco would be all over