The original nickel trapeze tailpiece rounds out the hardware complement. The original floating Brazilian rosewood bridge is intact, with a repair on the bottom of the bridge base. The pickguard is mounted with a few new flathead screws, and there's one tiny missing pickguard corner. Each pickup has its own pair of dedicated knobs, along with a three-way rotary pickup selector switch. On the parchment plastic pickguard, all of the original mini Dakaware Volume and Tone knobs are intact, with helpful "V" and "T" graphics. The Silvertone script logo is retained, with some wear along the top headstock edge.Īll of the electronics work as intended, with untouched solder joints and Centralab pots that date to the 49th week of 1960. The headstock features a set of original open-gear strip tuners with white lollipop buttons, and the tuners all function as intended, with a bend in the G tuner arm. The carved bone nut measures 1 11/16" in width, and the strings are ideally spaced for comfortable chording and even fingerstyle playing if desired. At only 24 1/4", the scale length is very manageable, and the cutaway allows easy access to all 18 frets. The dark Brazilian rosewood fretboard retains the original brass frets, showing only light, uniform wear beneath the strings on the crowns of frets 1-2, extending more faintly beneath the plain strings until fret 5. 945" deep at the 1st fret and 1.020" at the 9th. The maple neck has a particularly full-feeling U-shaped profile carve with generous shoulder and ideal heft, effortlessly navigable and easy to chord, measuring. The guitar is featherweight at 5lbs 4oz, dialed in here at Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar with 11-48 strings. This guitar has a very fat neck pickup tone with growl and punch, a spanky bridge pickup tone, and a full, complex sound when both pickups are engaged. Both single coils have strong output, and there's plenty of sinewy snap and taut bass on tap. One of Kay's most tonally satisfying models, the dual pickup Value Leader boasts a hollow, Les Paul-esque body and a pair of Kay's pancake pickups (otherwise known as "zippos") which deliver a tone that is pure early Rock & Roll percussive cut and woody sparkle. And unlike the Kay-branded versions, the Silvertone 1460L2 has a genuine slab Brazilian rosewood fretboard and matching floating bridge. A particularly rare iteration of the Value Leader platform, the Black-finished models were made exclusively for Sears' Silvertone brand under the 1460L2 model designation. Samick Music Corp introduced the Silvertone Classic series, reissues of certain popular historic Silvertone electric guitars, in 2013 and has produced acoustic guitars under the Silvertone name since 2015. Up for sale, a 1960 Kay Value Leader model K1962 vintage USA-made electric guitar in excellent condition and in perfect working order. The Silvertone brand was created by Sears in 1916 and has been owned by Samick Music Corp.
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