Here in Italy I remember in the mids of 90's there was a large not too big but not misconosciute presence of the Danelectro. Not cheap little thing at all but not a lot expensive but now disappeared. I've had a Dano instruments create from the Importers in the 90's a DNG PJ NTB a great bass for the price but Truss failed....
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Danelectro Owners Club
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Yeah, Danelectros weren't available in Canada, just the Silvertones they made and those were only through the Sears catalog. I first "discovered" Danelectro in the 90s when eBay opened the world up. I always loved the Dano made Silvertone amp-in-case model, but seeing the Dano listings hooked me for life.
Well that certainly explains why I never saw Danos until the reissues came out , aside from the Silvertone Danos .
The world was a lot smaller then and distribution more difficult. There were also post-war prohibitions that saw Canada get different products - the US was focused on rebuilding it's own industry and fostering Japan; because the Canadian market is so small compared to the US, it was often not considered worth the effort.
Canada got a lot of stuff from the UK, Germany and even Taiwan the US didn't get but didn't get US made gear by Danelectro, Harmony, Kay, Valco and etc. - most of those were distributed through the catalog re-sellers like Montgomery Ward that weren't in Canada. Sears was the only big US cataloger in Canada. Eaton's and the Hudson's Bay had their own line of electronics called things like Kenworth, but didn't do instruments. What became K-Mart and Woolco started as Kresge's and Woolworth 5 and dimes that didn't do musical instruments either. Fender and Gibson were selling through independent music stores and what became the big chains like Tom Lee and Long and McQuade.
Canada developed it's own makers like Larrivee, Simon & Patrick, Garnet, Traynor and Yorkville, but none are a substitute for Danelectro.
Interesting. A bit off-topic, but is this how Canada developed unique names for Detroit-built autos?
Sorta, kinda. If a US company wants to operate in Canada, or vise versa, they either sell to an existing distributor in that nation-state or have to set up a whole new company which has it's own executive branch (and sometimes make their own decisions). In situations where they create a new company - for example K-Mart Canada was a separate company from K-Mart US - they appear the same on the outside but don't necessarily stock the same product from the same sources. There can be different standards for compliance - e.g. Ralph Nader caused a lot of changes to US sold cars that weren't mandated by law in other countries, so there would effectively be different versions of the same model requiring different branding for easy identification.
Electronics can be particularly difficult. Canada has CSA whereas the US uses UL certification. That means selling a device made in the US that plugs into a wall outlet needed you to send the device to the CSA lab where it would be tested to ensure it passed CSA specifications. While the differences between CSA and UL ended up being small, this could still cost between $40,000 and $100,000 per device before the dust settled. In the early days of tube equipment quite a few house fires were caused by cloth covered wire catching fire after being too close to a hot tube, so the standards grew out of safety concerns first and foremost, which differ between places.
When I was designing Pigtronix they originally insisted the pedal had to plug into the wall because of distaste for wall-warts. I argued the costs of certification didn't warrant it - it's cheaper to source a pre-certified wall-wart and design around that, which is the way they went once they verified what I was telling them, especially when international sales are considered as each jurisdiction can have their own standards.
I am in need of some wiring advice on my Longhorn. The connections on the output have separated from the jack (trying to tighten the connection). The wire is co-ax, my guess is the outer 'shield' wire is the ground but I'm not positive. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Probably would have went to my local guitar tech but you know, Covid 19 and all. EDIT: They do not leave much extra length.
The white wire in the center goes to Tip on the TS jack and the others to Sleeve. On coax should be 3 - a positive (in the center and shielded), negative and an overall shielding that goes to ground.
One of Joe's grandsons plays bass with some fellas I know round here. Good player too.
Thanks. I guess I misidentified the wire as 'coax' it's really just a single wire with a shielding and a jacket. Should have it repaired later today.
Anyone else own a 3412? Just got this guy... think I'll call him "Nubs"...
That’s a beauty and these sound great. Congrats.
