A friend of mine gave me this a couple of years ago, but I lent it to another friend who wanted to learn guitar but he ended up leaving it neglected in his garage. I believe it's a late 70s example of a Kay Effector.
I finally retrieved it and set about getting it playable.
Issues were:
-Tuners were a mix of original and replacement, almost all of them unusable and heavily rusted. One of the ferrules was missing from the headstock too.
-Missing control knobs
-Action was set at about 5mm, with terrible intonation
-It was all generally grubby and in need of a good clean.
I fitted a set of cheap Kluson style tuners I picked up for £20 on Amazon, which included ferrules to replace the missing one, gave it as good a setup as the occasional slightly uneven fret would allow, got some new knobs, and gave it all a good clean.
The obvious difference from a standard LP is the on-board effects. These all seem to produce variations on a phaser/flanger type sound and aren't great quality to be honest. The fuzz is great though, not very high gain but sounds good.
Other oddities are the lack of pickup selector, instead there's a switch to put them in or out of phase.
The neck is bolt on as expected for a cheap guitar of this era, though rather unexpectedly the body appears to be solid mahogany with a maple cap (I was expecting mahogany plywood).
Obligatory pic, more to follow:
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
The frets aren't sharp on mine and the new tuners have solved the tuning stability issues.
It's fun to play, I don't expect it to play like an American guitar but for having cost me the grand total of £30 (new tuners and knobs) I reckon it's worth hanging on to.
The other big plus is I can leave it next to the sofa and don't need to worry about my 4 year old damaging it