Just a few thoughts/comments from a non-expert!
- I think that's a later photo on the Kingston CD cover.
- I recall Hank saying in his column in Beat Instrumental that the reason the new guitar was taking so long was that even when Jim Burns made changes to suit Hank as lead guitarist, and he thought it was OK, 'a certain rhythm guitarist' would not like it- which I took to mean 'Mr. Picky' (!) was being fussy about his desires!
- Surely there wouldn't have been 20 or 30 separate different prototype complete guitars made? I could imagine say, half a dozen, but it seems absurd that if a minor change (say, scratch plate) was wanted, Jim wouldn't build a complete new guitar each time? Seems illogical to me. Even a different width neck could be made and substituted on an otherwise OK body with pickups etc.
- If there were 20 or 30 prototypes built, what happened to them?? Surely one or two might have surfaced by now and be known about via the internet!- unless they are languishing in dusty cases somewhere in Hank's storage shed?!