Joe Doe Guitars The Model Kitcaster electric guitar, made in...

Hammer

£1,050

Joe Doe Guitars The Model Kitcaster electric guitar, made in England; Body: relic green and grey nitro finish custom design body; Neck: All Parts quarter sawn 10" radius with medium C profile; Frets: good; Electrics: working, Bare Knuckle Apache single coil pickups with CTS pots and five-way switch; Hardware: Wilkinson trem, Gotoh tuners, bone nut, custom kit plain pickguard; Case: original hard case enclosing story sheet and tags; Weight: 3.52kg; Overall condition: as new

*Joe Doe Guitars are the brain child of Ben Court, who designs and hand builds guitars that each have an interesting and fun story attached to them. The success of his concept led to him joining up with JHS Vintage to produce limited factory runs of his concepts and ideas

'The Model Kitcaster, 1965. Owner: Lennie Holden, Hampton, London, UK. Lennie Holden was a prolific model maker who by the age of six had assembled, glued and painted the entire Airfix Military Aircraft range, in both 1:48 and 1:72 scale. Worried that his son's passion was becoming an obsession, Lennie's father Ned presented him with the Model Kitcaster guitar on Christmas morning 1965, in an attempt to expand his son's horizons. The ruse worked, and Lennie soon became obsessed with guitar playing and went on to form The Spitfires, a popular blues band on the London circuit from 1974 to 1989