Hello everyone, Im relatively new to TB, but Ive been prowling the LC for a few years, and finally want to take a shot at building my first guitar
I really dig those old Danelectro DC59s, and I think it would be a cool build, but with a twist. Instead of doing a masonite-poplar-masonite laminate I was thinking something more fender-esque and routing it out of an alder body blank, and instead of lipstick pickups I was thinking of a Filter'tron in the bridge and a P90 in the neck position? Or maybe use a tele ashtray bridge with a neck humbucker over an ash body and do some kind of blonde-on-black tele-dano abomination?? I have all kinds of ideas. Not really bass specific, I know, but what do you guys think? I also think the original Dano necks were a different scale, but I would really like to use a 25.5" scale length. So that would require me relocating the bridge? Would i just measure 25.5" down the neck and make my marks on the body corresponding to that to determine bridge location?
I really dig those old Danelectro DC59s, and I think it would be a cool build, but with a twist. Instead of doing a masonite-poplar-masonite laminate I was thinking something more fender-esque and routing it out of an alder body blank, and instead of lipstick pickups I was thinking of a Filter'tron in the bridge and a P90 in the neck position? Or maybe use a tele ashtray bridge with a neck humbucker over an ash body and do some kind of blonde-on-black tele-dano abomination?? I have all kinds of ideas. Not really bass specific, I know, but what do you guys think? I also think the original Dano necks were a different scale, but I would really like to use a 25.5" scale length. So that would require me relocating the bridge? Would i just measure 25.5" down the neck and make my marks on the body corresponding to that to determine bridge location?
