You've reached Mongrel Guitars, the official home of Ian and Michael's grand obsession.
These guys practise lots of things including unremitting cohabitation with their collection of must-have Kay Guitars, retros, and hard-to-find collectables.

We recieve many enquiries asking for help identifying old Kays. The more information you can give, the more likely we will be able to help you. Of course detailed photographs make our job even more possible. The 'L' and 'N'  numbers are of  virtually of no use in identification so a full description which includes the headstock shape, type of script on the emblem, body size and shape. pickups, number and layout of knobs etc is what we depend on to guide us. We welcome all enquiries though and conscientiously do our best to be of help.

We also have collected a large number of old Kay parts and may be able to help complete your restorations.

• Welcome to Mongrel Guitars.
• We specialise in restoring vintage instruments but we have a particular interest in Vintage Kay Guitars. We have spent years researching guitar history so please feel welcome to contact us This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it with any questions. If we don't have the answer chances are we know someone who does.
• We will be launching a forum and hope you will make use of it.
• Also please feel welcome to respond to the blog.
• Currently we have photos of some of our guitars for sale under electric and acoustic guitars but are still waiting on the  detail pix.
• In the meantime we are always happy to email you detailed photographs of any which take your fancy.
• Mongrelguitars are proud to be the exclusive Australian Distributors of Wolfetone pickups. These are handmade in the U.S. and used by some of the top players. See our parts page for details.
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Mongrel Guitars

• People who visit us are always totally blown away by our collection of  rare and unusual instruments and almost daily there is a knock on the door from someone 'who just happened to be passing and thought they would see if we were up for a jam.'
• Needless to say we spend a lot of time pickin' between coats of laquer and while the glue dries.
• It is a very productive process because all the instruments in the shop are played regularly and any small issues are quickly discovered and fixed. It also means that everything we sell is fully set up to our own playing standards and we would happily take any of these instruments on stage- which we invariably do.