Kay “Star KIng” Model K4140
Stylistic excess and affordability with this “solid body sizzler,” c.1960

Solid body electric
Single pickup, neck position
   • Volume and tone pots
Neck through, 19 frets
Maple fingerboard, painted
     position markers
Open strip tuners, white buttons
Fixed wooden bridge
Trapeze tailpiece
Single cutaway
Brown neck and headstock
   • Kay script-in-oval metal label
   • No truss rod cover
Zolotone finish front and back
White plastic pickguard
Peg strap button at bottom

Overall length: 00cm
Overall neck: 00cm
Fretboard: 00cm
Body length: 00cm
Body thickness: 00cm
Upper bout: 00cm
Lower bout: 00cm

I’m not betting on that name, folks, but the model number is correct. And that’s not a strap button behind the neck butt either—that’s where you adjust the truss rod! This incredible feature delivers neck adjustments with a skatekey-like device (not included).

Eliza Gilkyson’s brother has one.

I have two.