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#642
its the darker silver. what ever it is called. i dont remember



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#650
bassgod76 said:
Anyone know where I can get a 30" scale Dano neck?
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Try allparts - they had them for ever - BUT they will not be a drop-in solution for a DC, they are designed for "short scale" bodies - ie bdies that have a guitar-like distance between the neck pocket and the bridge - the DC was Fender Bass format with much more distance between the neck and the bridge. You would have to move the bridge - and I think that you'd have to move or replace the wood bloc for it to work, along with the bridge pickup.
Two suggestions - every other Dano since the DC has either been short scale or available in short scale and thus convertible with a neck change OR try the long scale. My current 4 string is the 63 long-scale and it sounds very "Dano-like" with just a bit stronger fundamental without losing what was special about Danos.
Good luck.
 
#657
danosix said:
Nice!
Is that an original, a JJ and a new-issue dolphin head? Cool collection - I'm very jealous! I really miss my longhorn (MIK).
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No, not original (assuming you mean the one on the left). It's one of the recent Chinese ones. I bought it in rough, abused condition, cheap. I fixed the bridge and put some old strings on it and then didn't play it. A couple years went by. A couple weeks ago I took it to band practice and plugged it in for the first time ever and it sounds great. I've read nothing but bad reviews of the Chinese Longhorns, but either they're wrong, or this one is exceptional.

But the same goes for the one on the right, the 56, which I got when Musicians Friend was discontinuing them, for I think $173 ($199 and a coupon?). I bought it on an impulse. I put old flats on it (the rounds that came on it hurt my fingers and sounded tinny) and took it to band practice. It sounded better than the Jerry Jones, embarrassingly. It's now the bass I play the most. The only bass thing about it so far is that the bridge collapsed, as the are wont to do. I replaced it with a similar-but-stronger Jerry Jones bridge I found on the 'bay.

It makes me think I should buy a new Hodad if I find one cheap. They also get bad reviews, which might mean, in the Universe of Cool, that they are great.
 
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#658
mcgreivey said:
No, not original (assuming you mean the one on the left). It's one of the recent Chinese ones. I bought it in rough, abused condition, cheap. I fixed the bridge and put some old strings on it and then didn't play it. A couple years went by. A couple weeks ago I took it to band practice and plugged it in for the first time ever and it sounds great. I've read nothing but bad reviews of the Chinese Longhorns, but either they're wrong, or this one is exceptional.
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If you ask me, they're wrong. My 2009 Longhorn has been excellent.
 
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#659
mcgreivey said:
No, not original (assuming you mean the one on the left). It's one of the recent Chinese ones. I bought it in rough, abused condition, cheap. I fixed the bridge and put some old strings on it and then didn't play it. A couple years went by. A couple weeks ago I took it to band practice and plugged it in for the first time ever and it sounds great. I've read nothing but bad reviews of the Chinese Longhorns, but either they're wrong, or this one is exceptional.

But the same goes for the one on the right, the 56, which I got when Musicians Friend was discontinuing them, for I think $173 ($199 and a coupon?). I bought it on an impulse. I put old flats on it (the rounds that came on it hurt my fingers and sounded tinny) and took it to band practice. It sounded better than the Jerry Jones, embarrassingly. It's now the bass I play the most. The only bass thing about it so far is that the bridge collapsed, as the are wont to do. I replaced it with a similar-but-stronger Jerry Jones bridge I found on the 'bay.

It makes me think I should buy a new Hodad if I find one cheap. They also get bad reviews, which might mean, in the Universe of Cool, that they are great.
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Yeah the review are WRONG, the new stuff is pretty great - and in many ways (like having a truss rod and not being 40 years old) better than the original stuff.
As far as the Hodad - it always received pretty decent reviews from knowledgeable sources - like Bassplayer, Bassics, etc. It's always the people who have no idea what these are or what they're for that rate this stuff as bad - or the guys who think anything new or off-shore is bad. I can't wait for the day some cheapo Chinese or Indonesean brand opens a plant in North America so I can see all the reviews - evenly split between "the Chinese ones SUCKED, but now they're made in the US they ROCK" and "the new MIA ones aren't as good as the old MIC ones."
And - the Hodad (or a long scale 63 or a DC) is a good choice to add to your brood as Danos sound REAL nice in long scale - all the Dano goodness with just a bit more fundamental and zip like a good Fender.
 
#660
But the recent Hodads are short-scale, right? Or at least all the ones I've seen actually reviewed (like, in the Hodad Bass thread here on talkbass) have been short scale.

And, by the way, a lot of the listings by music123 and Musicians Friend and Guitar Center on eBay and Amazon now have photos of some unknown 6-string guitar, which isn't a bass, nor a Hodad, nor ever a Danelectro. They aren't going to still them that way. And Danelectro isn't trying very hard if they're not noticing this, and other inaccuracies I've seen in the past. These are big, visible online retailers.

"Gee. I can't figure out why were not selling any basses."

But we can't find them in stores, can't find out from Dano's website what the current models are, and can't get accurate info from third parties. The musicradar's listing smells accurate, though.

But 355 mm scale length?
35.5 cm÷2.54=13.9763779528 in. Even if that's half the scale length, that's 27.95, which is a long way from 30".

And does anyone know what "2V+2T+3/T electronics" means? Maybe 2 volume, 2 tone, 3 toggle positions?

OK. I must need coffee.

Oh. And I do want a 63, but I'd probably want the short scale. But I don't know, because THERE'S NO WAY I CAN GET MY HANDS ON A LONG SCALE DANO TO SEE IF I LIKE PLAYING IT.

I do need my coffee now.
 
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