________________________________________________________ *** VINTAGE & TRADITIONAL GUITARS *** - UPDATE! - 17​/​10​/​2024. - Reduced Offer Price! *** Watcher's Note - 24​/​10​/​2024 - Listing will be ending shortly! ________________________________________________________ ACOUSTIC BLUES, JAZZ & SWING VINTAGE ARCHTOP - KAY MARVELTONE, USA C.1940, SPRUCE​/​MAPLE, JUMBO OVAL SOUNDHOLE , 26" SCALE ACOUSTIC GUITAR - A Very Rare & All Original Sunburst Acoustic Guitar, Excellent Restored Condition, Fingerboard Re-levelled & Re-fretted, Original Kluson Single-line Tuners, Newtone Heritage Strings. ________________________________________________________ Stock Number: - VTG1584. In addition to the following description notes, further background information and restoration details can be found on my Vintage & Traditional Guitars website, on this link....https://www.vintagetraditionalguitars.co.uk/details.php?id=469 ....also includes YouTube video demos and details of same model guitar, This is a rare, 17.25" (43.8mm. body width) jumbo, roundhole archtop, with longer 26"​/​660mm. scale, most definitely built by Kay in either the late 1930s or early 1940s. In truth it should be named an oval-hole archtop...something like a cross between a petite-bouche & grand bouche in Maccaferri​/​Selmer​/​Gypsy Jazz style guitars. All original with a nice Spruce top, augmented ladder-style bracing, true Sunburst finish, Maple back & sides, original Kluson Single-line enclosed 3-on-a-plate machines, Rosewood floating & adjustable bridge of typical Kay design, nut appears original bone, original metal tailpiece. Fingerboard is Ebonised Maple....see "Restoration" notes on re-levelling & re-colouring, available vi the link to my VTG website description. Dimensions are 108cm.​/​42.5" overall length, 52.7cm.​/​20.75" body length, 43.4cm.​/​17.1" max. body width​/​lower bout, 31.3cm.​/​12.3" upper bout, 8.9cm.​/​3.5" body depth front & rear, 660mm.​/​26" scale, 42.5mm.​/​1.67"​/​1 11​/​16th. nut width, 35mm.​/​1.4" string spacing at nut, 52.5mm.​/​2.1" fingerboard width @ 12th. fret and 55mm.​/​2.2" E-E bridge string spacing. ....guitar plays well with excellent 12th. fret action of around 2.75mm.​/​3mm. on a straight fretboard. The is no case included, but I do have an old, but useable Hiscox GJ​/​Jumbo size hardshell case....please enquire if this would be useful. I have restricted the wording here to a basic outline, so please do fully research the details provided on my VTG website, and contact me for any further information in order to fulfil your purchase. Thank you, Bob Chaffer, Vintage & Traditional Guitars.