Danelectro Longhorn identification

[Blank_0101]

I'll post a pic very soon FYI

Anyways just picked it up for $120, it's the white pearl cascading into blue burst style, short scale with a black neck and headstock.

Has tuners that look like my MIM telecaster not the white plastic dano ones, single volume and tone with chrome knobs and 3 way switch.

has a serial number I'll add with the pic. and It says Korea.

I like to know everything I can about the basses I get, and according to one site, it claims mine would be a chinese model.

Also have a few questions on updates to improve this guy.

 

[Thornton Davis]

Sounds like you have a Longhorn Pro. They have upgraded tuners and a fully adjustable metal bridge. And they were made in Korea if I recall correctly.

TD

 

[Blank_0101]

$120 a good price?

 

[msb]

Yes , great deal .

There's one Dano site that seems to indicate the single tone/volume pots with a toggle switch are Chinese , and yet some people have them with Korean stickers so there's some confusion there .

I have a number of name and vintage basses that I have accumulated over the years and yet my Longhorn has been the one I gig with the most recently . Enjoy , they are great little basses !

 

[Blank_0101]

The owner sanded the neck down I think I'll be just taking all the black paint off, and redoing the dano logo in black. I think the black neck looks dumb anyways against a bluebust finish.

Also adding a rick style double input and maybe a home made diode circuit for switchable fuzz.

 

[Roget]

I just picked up a Pro model. Wiki says: "Longhorn Pro (2000–2003. '58 Longhorn Bass [reissue] with adjustable bridge and upgraded tuners)." I can't find specifics about serial numbers. Mine has a sticker with 9 digits and Made in Korea. And I was also incorrectly told it's from the 90s. Wiki has a Danelectro production void from 1969 until 1998!?!?

 

[mongo2]

I just picked up a Pro model. Wiki says: "Longhorn Pro (2000–2003. '58 Longhorn Bass [reissue] with adjustable bridge and upgraded tuners)." I can't find specifics about serial numbers. Mine has a sticker with 9 digits and Made in Korea. And I was also incorrectly told it's from the 90s. Wiki has a Danelectro production void from 1969 until 1998!?!?

I recently sold my Pro since I wasn't using it much and my "dolphin nose" fits me better.

Yes Dano halted in '69 and in '98 Evets started importing the reissues.

 

[DennisO]

The owner sanded the neck down I think I'll be just taking all the black paint off, and redoing the dano logo in black. I think the black neck looks dumb anyways against a bluebust finish.

Also adding a rick style double input and maybe a home made diode circuit for switchable fuzz.

Hmmm, I'd like to know more about this homemade diode circuit fuzz. I know just enough about electronics to be dangerous lol. Sounds like something I'd have fun with. I know it's an old post, but if you're still around, I'd love a schematic if you want to share