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Help dating my Kay archtop

smokebreak
March 20th, 2012, 08:27 PM
Hey all I got this super barky Kay yesterday. Blue label inside. That's it. When do you think it was made?

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jwsamuel
March 20th, 2012, 08:57 PM
I dated a Kay once.

I hope you are luckier.

Jim

smokebreak
March 20th, 2012, 09:25 PM
I dated a Kay once.

I hope you are luckier.

Jim

So far so good Jim!

burnsbert
March 20th, 2012, 09:27 PM
You could try buying it flowers.

(sorry, couldn't resist)

zombywoof
March 21st, 2012, 11:31 AM
I have seen a whole bunch of those triburst Kays with that logo in my lifetime. I don't recall a model number if, in fact, I ever knew it.

About all I can tell you is that peaked headstock appeared around 1939 and was common through the 1940s although you still saw them in the 1950s (even later on guitars like Kay-built Airlines).