Pictured here is a vintage 1965 Kay K-1 17" solid top, sunburst, cutaway archtop, fitted with a Gibson "finger rest" pickup (better know as the McCarty Pickup, after Ted McCarty, who, after joining Gibson in 1948, contributed to it's development).
The McCarty unit was originally presented at the June 1948 NAMM Convention as a standard appointment on the L-7 and, by the time it was pulled from the gibson catalog in 1971, had been offered in many variations (cutaway/non-cutaway, single/double, gold/nickel hardware) to accommodate every model of acoustic archtop made by Gibson.
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This one shown here is the double pickup, cutaway model, and, originally came with gold hardware to match the higher-end L-5 and Super 400 acoustic models it was designed for.
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