Comments on: Is more better? (1967 Kent Model 742 Electric Guitar)

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:08:23 +0000

Love ti see any pictures …will swap some of mine…Sorry missed your previous E mail
Thanks brian

By: TC

TC — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:08:27 +0000

I got a couple nice things at the mart trading post back in the early 90s myself… I suspect there was a lot of great weird stuff that went through that place.

By: MIster Coffee

MIster Coffee — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:26:56 +0000

I must respectfully disagree with your assessment of the sound. I have one of these (mine has its original Kent-branded tremelo mechanism — yours looks like a Bigsby-type replacement) and it gets a whole range of great tones. A couple of my faves are the bridge and neck together (a rock-a-billy-ish plunk similar to using both pups on a Mosrite) and the neck with its immediate neighbor (out of phase like a strat but mellower). The bridge pup by itself is like an edgy P-90, though not as hot.

My two cents.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:10:11 +0000

Love it! Grabbed my first four-pickup Teisco, an ET440, from a store in the corner of the Pennsauken Mart back in the ’70s. Despite my visual love affair years later with my 742, I sold it a few years back (along with my Kent 820) after reading your article(s), which verified my suspicions about the pickups. Still have my Blonde 740 though. The wood, and weight, reminds me of my school desk from 6th grade. It’s a keeper.

By: Bill Arthur Jones

Bill Arthur Jones — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:47:46 +0000

I had this exact guitar (1980s) except in bright red. Looked very cool, and yes, I had to turn everything up to 15 just to get a worthy sound. It was my second on-stage guitar in case I busted an E string…..which I did at a major gig and had to finish out the set with this beast. Quite a workout to get to get any kind of tone. Heavy as hell, I used it often a slide guitar when we did our Elmore James stuff.

By: JohnyP

JohnyP — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000

I have a two pickup model in sunburst that I bought with a Epiphone amp from an old blues player. Needs restoring but the open back amp was full of stuff. Sheet music, cords, picks. Oh…and a 1967 Vox wah. NICE!

By: dave

dave — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:49:18 +0000

yea , he would say something like that because he does not have one to hang on his wall . dont let him fool you into giving that guitar away fir nothing . , maybe he should be hung on the wall .

your friend ,
DAVE

By: DAVE

DAVE — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:47:07 +0000

hi,
got a nice Vintage Aria Diamond electric hollow body. let me know if you’d like to see it . still got my nice 1960′s kent KE3B with the case it was sold in . great shape and plays sweet .SEE IT AND MY OLDER TELSTAR ELECTRIC BLACK BEAUTY ,SOLID BODY AT daves-antiques-collectables

THANKS
DAVE

By: Brian E. Fairfax

Brian E. Fairfax — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:34:26 +0000

I have a lemon/white Model 6538 i just discovered in a dingy and dark pawn shop . Had my lutherian friend do some work …basically cleanup the electronics and the intonation It is a 3 pickup model with a bgsby like whammy bar….3 volume and 3 tone controls and separate on off switches for the pickups and a not sure what it does 4th switch. Plays fast and sweetly in mint condition.The shop owner told me it was only good to hang on a wall and priced it accordingly E mail me at the4faxes@shaw.ca for pics of it and my Vintage Aria Diamond 335 beauties.

By: DAVID BROWN

DAVID BROWN — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:37:25 +0000

HI,

GOT A REAL NICE EARLY 1970′s KENT ELECTRIC, LES PAUL MODEL NUMBER KE3B AND IT IS THE BLACK BEAUTY MODEL SO SWEET SOUNDING AND EASY TO PLAY .
WANT TO SEE PIC’S EMAIL ME AT davesbizz@aol.com

p.s….. can you sent me pic’s of your #742
thanks
dave