On the cutting edge of electric guitar design and among the most famous, revered and collected of the Kay electric guitars. The Jazz II is an extremely versatile instrument for stage and studio with the ability to deliver a range of sounds from warm jazz to shredding heavy metal. Among the most notable of artists in the early '60s, was 17-year old Eric Clapton... Read more
On the cutting edge of electric guitar design and among the most famous, revered and collected of the Kay electric guitars. The Jazz II is an extremely versatile instrument for stage and studio with the ability to deliver a range of sounds from warm jazz to shredding heavy metal. Among the most notable of artists in the early '60s, was 17-year old Eric Clapton who used the Kay Jazz II with his first band "The Roosters". Striking beauty, tone and playability make this guitar an overall winner in any style of music and provides a vintage-chic that will continue to wow the crowd. Collapse text
Body: Double cutaway, thinline hollow body, multi-ply flame maple arched top and back, maple sides
Pufling: Multi-ply black and white celluloid binding
Neck: Set one-piece straight-grained Canadian Maple with single-ply binding, 20 medium nickel-silver frets and 6 sharkfin pearloid inlays
Fingerboard: 25“ scale bound rosewood fingerboard with 12" radius
Tuning Machines: Grover, 3 on a side Rotomatics
Bridge & Tailpiece: Genuine Bigsby Vibrato with fixed roller bridge
Electronics: Two "Kleenex Box", Gold K powerful single coil with adjustable pole pieces, 4 skirted individual tone and volume control knobs, 3-way toggle selector, side mounted output jack
Plckguards: Silver backed Lucite with Kay Logo
Top Nut: 1-11/16" Bone
Headstock: Original gold "K" chevron displaying 3-D raised Kel-von-a-tor style emblem. Truss rod cover has Roger Fritz Signature