After searching for nearly a year now, I have yet to discover any concrete information on this particular guitar. It's known as a "Barney Kessel" since it's fashioned after the Gibson double cutaway....But it's NOT the Barney Kessel official model made by Kay. That is a single cutaway and has a signature pick guard. But, nonetheless, it's almost always referred to as the Kessel model in sale ads.
I've seen them by Airline (usually a natural maple color), Truetone (the same), and the Old Kraftsman (which this is) in transparent flamed maple red. I have found no marking to designate a model number anywhere on the guitar. I've fitted it with a custom Warmoth neck and hand-cut pearl accents, and adjusted it to some incredible fingering tolerances. In my opinion, it's a better guitar than any of the major brands I've owned and has amazing tonal qualities from the 3 Gibson P-35's (Kleenex-Box) it came equipped with. The vibrato is clearly made by Bigsby for Kay and works great with my updated tune'o'matic rosewood base roller bridge I fabbed for this body curve.
If ANY of you'se guys have info. on a model name or number for this guitar, PLEASE help me out here.