Item Details - Danelectro Dano '63 electric guitar

• Fantasic retro look guitar with great tone
• Stand out from the crowd with both your look and your sound
• Keen Green colour
• Guitar will be checked and adjusted if necessary before dispatch

Back in '63, gas cost 26 cents a gallon, a new group called The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show - and an odd-looking electric guitar burst onto the pages of the Sears catalogue.
Danelectro's "model 1449" would soon become the rage of garage bands and pros alike. Why? One reason was tone. Danelectro's pickups, ingeniously housed in lipstick tubes, quickly became known for their "signature twang". The guitar bodies were lightweight and featured a hollow inner chamber which made them sonically "alive", unlike traditional solid bodies. Fast forward 45 years and Danelectro re-issues this prized guitar, calling it the Dano '63.
Our first task in bringing back this great guitar was to replicate the 60s-era Lipstick pickups. That meant acquiring dozens of old Lipsticks and tearing them apart to uncover their "secrets". The resulting re-issue pickups are hot and sweet and sonically accurate to the originals. Next we upgraded the tuners and bridges to make this guitar as fun to play as it is to listen to.
And to make it just as fun to look at, we combed old paint archives for just the right retro colors to capture the soul and spirit of this great guitar. We then plated all the hardware with "zero gloss" nickel.
And, to be faithful to the Danelectro legacy, it is priced to be just as affordable as its 45-year-old cousin. We hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed producing it.

Specifications:
Body: Masonite with plywood core. Solid plywood block from neck pocket to bridge. Chambered sides and behind bridge
Neck: Maple with double acting truss rod, Neck shape: C
Neck joint: Bolt on
Scale: 25"
Number of frets: 19
Fretboard: Rosewood with pearloid inlays
Tuners: High ratio with sealed gears
Bridge: Adjustable saddles zero gloss nickel
Pickups: Lipstick single coil
Controls: Single volume and tone w/ 3-way toggle pickup selector, Vinyl side binding tape. Stained for aged appearance.

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