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The only fix is to remove the bridge, prep the area, sand the bridge to match, and reglue it. Do not use glue to fill the gaps or drive screws into the bridge to bring it back down.Many bridges are glued directly onto the lacquer which causes them to lift and raise the action.As string tension and climate shift the wood in a guitar, they inevitably need the neck to be steamed off and a new angle carved relative to the body.The strings are too high off the fretboard.Your guitar needs a fretboard planing and refret or more ideally a truss rod installation.Most Harmony guitars lack adjustable truss rods (or rods that still work) and so forward bow cannot be easily repaired.The strings are buzzy or the neck is bowed.Frets are like tires on your car, they need replacing after being used a lot.Do not shove glue in there or drive a screw through the heel.The neck heel is pulling away from the body.Your guitar needs proper humidity and cleats.Do not try to fill the cracks with glue or put clamps on the guitar to press it together.

This occurs when an instrument is exposed to a climate different than the ideal (70 degrees Fahrenheit and 45-50% humidity) and the wood has shrunk.

Instead, this is one of a series of Kay-made instruments with appointments similar to that of the earlier Gold K generation, but overall, more in the mold of the other guitars then being sold through catalog partners. While often vintage dealers and others label any Kay with the Kleenex box pickups a Barney Kessel model, this does not appear to have been the actual designation. Sold under the Airline brand name exclusively through Montgomery Ward, this guitar shows up in a 1965 edition of their catalog simply as an Archtop Dual Cutaway. Moving through the '60s, as Kay shifted away from the original Gold K guitars, these pickups-a variation on the P-90, with larger pole pieces-continued to be used on other models including today's featured instrument, the hollowbody Swingmaster P-5 archtop.

The Gold K and Kessel models (along with the Thin Twin, which was played by bluesman Jimmy Reed) are the most recognizable vintage Kays and are set apart by their higher-end hardware-flourishes like the ornate "Kelvinator" headstock (which, along with the pickup frames and pickguard, resembled the appointments of that company's line of appliances) and the distinct Gold K pickups, sometimes called Kleenex box pickups, for obvious reasons.