Hi,
I'd like to thank you for the great website. History: I went thru a brief period in the mid 1980's collecting guitars when I was inthe USAF and stationed in Abilene TX. There was nothing else to do but cruise the pawnshops.....and I mean nothing. I picked up this Kay guitar only b.c. it looked cool....no other reason and goofed around with it....but didn't play it much, I had a nice Gretsch at the time. I went to the P.I. and left the guitar with an artist friend in LA...who worked for the LA Times and he put the guitar on the cover of the weekend magazine once...it looks cool, like I said...really cool. I got the guitar back and it sat collecting dust for the next 15 yrs. I pulled it out the other day....started playing it and it was.....wonderful. Such an incredible sound and easy to play....it sounds much better than the cheap ass guitar that it was supposed to be at the time. An amazing sound....perhaps time has been ever so kind....anyway...I had no idea of the year and model until I came to this site, bought some time and looked thru the catalogs....which put this Kay as a 1959 Sizzler....thanks again....who knows what this is worth, I cannot remember what I paid for it....and it doesn't matter....I put this guitar up against a 1980's Tele and it sounds better....much be the age of the pups.