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"How bad is it?" Silvertone Hornet resurrection

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The dot on the 'i' - :thumbsup:

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fivestringdan said:
You should find a set of original knobs. Not enough bling on the pickguard.
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I know what you are saying - early on I considered aluminum knobs. It came with 3 out of the 4 original "upside-down bucket" aluminum knobs, and they are in rough shape. I'm not interested in paying overpriced "vintage" asking prices to add one to the set - I dig the black witch-hats better anyway.

I used the same knobs on my '68 Custom Kraft "Bone Buzzer" and they look ace there also. It had ugly cheap-looking gold (-?- only gold thing on the bass!) plastic knobs. (they're in a safe place along with the Hornet knobs...;))

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BklynKen said:
Yeah, man. I'm totally digging this. Too bad none of these cool basses seem to be available left-handed.
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That's a curious point Ken - all those guitars and basses made in the '60s and very few offered left-handed and only from the bigger companies. I flipped through through my Vintage Japanese guitar book and not one is pictured or mentioned. It had to have been considered - I mean they cranked out so many guitars/basses then aimed at young players.

ATLbassist said:
Excellent restoration - both here and for the other Danelectro. I already have a Longhorn, but you're sparking some GAS over here.
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:) Thanks! Like I said, I'm new to Dano-world and love playing the ones I've restored. Teisco made a cool Longhorn clone in the '60s called "Phantom-B" (pictured) It was also badged "Kingston" and "Kimberly"

And speaking of cool potentially left handed basses... a Longhorn like a violin bass could easily be converted to a lefty due to its symmetrical design.

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JIO said:
That's a curious point Ken - all those guitars and basses made in the '60s and very few offered left-handed and only from the bigger companies. I flipped through through my Vintage Japanese guitar book and not one is pictured or mentioned. It had to have been considered - I mean they cranked out so many guitars/basses then aimed at young players.
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Yeah, I wonder if there's any interesting story behind that. Not sure how rare my '76 BC Rich is, but I was looking in their price guide from that time and they show left-handed as a free option. They were a tiny shop at the time.
 
#177
@Jon Clegg sent me this cool song by the Dutch band Golden Earrings from the 80's. Bass player is rockin' a Dano Longhorn and it sounds great in the mix - very much what mine sound like. There's a later live show of them where the bass player is playing a P-bass and his sound is pretty similar. I caulk that up to a player who knew what his 'sound' was, a big part of which came from his fingers and knowing how to dial his rig. He dwells at the bridge pu and uses a pick like I do. He really digs in judging by the missing wood between the pu's!



Here's another Dano Longhorn (and Dano/Silvertone baritone guitar) being played on Wichita Lineman -

 
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