TwoNotesSolo
Student Of The Blues
Well, it's been on my mind for a while but I just came back from the Home Depot with the essentials to get started.
If you are not familiar with Danelectro guitars, they were built to be mass produced at low cost. A little like Leo Fender designed his guitar to be cheaply manufactured, but taken to the next level. They mostly sold through Sears and Montgomery Ward.
The bodies are hollow. The frame is made of plywood (the earlier models used pine or poplar scraps as in the picture below) and the front and back are hardboard (aka Masonite).
Pickups are lipstick style, due to their being housed in metal lipstick containers.
They use a screw-on aluminum nut
The bridge is intonable by angling the piece of rosewood. Oh and did I mention the necks use a steel rod to keep them straight without the need for an adjustable truss rod?
How can I not be inspired by that, being the king of cheap
Dano had lots of interesting out of the box models (the coolest being th longhorn bass in my opinion). They made a number of baritone guitars, and I think I'm going to make mine a baritone too.
If you are not familiar with Danelectro guitars, they were built to be mass produced at low cost. A little like Leo Fender designed his guitar to be cheaply manufactured, but taken to the next level. They mostly sold through Sears and Montgomery Ward.
The bodies are hollow. The frame is made of plywood (the earlier models used pine or poplar scraps as in the picture below) and the front and back are hardboard (aka Masonite).
Pickups are lipstick style, due to their being housed in metal lipstick containers.
They use a screw-on aluminum nut
The bridge is intonable by angling the piece of rosewood. Oh and did I mention the necks use a steel rod to keep them straight without the need for an adjustable truss rod?
How can I not be inspired by that, being the king of cheap
Dano had lots of interesting out of the box models (the coolest being th longhorn bass in my opinion). They made a number of baritone guitars, and I think I'm going to make mine a baritone too.
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