Ah, Korea. It Hits the little fingers paid 30 cents an hour manufacturing guitars at night. The guitar is finished with his feet on some models it seems, with hoops that exceed buttons that have the game, etc.. Regarding my own, it is perfectly finished and quality workmanship is impeccable. Well, it's a baritone guitar, you give it a fifth or a third as a normal guitar as you want, cf. lower. The pickups are Lipstick, single coil pickups covered with a metal shield, legend has it that the first Dano had hidden microphones made from half-tubes of lipstick, metal, hence the name. For cons, the microphones have a fantasy: instead of being connected in parellel as on most guitars, they are mounted in series on all Danos including this one, so that the volume and sound are very different as you put neck pickup / bridge pickup / both. In my case, I use only two microphones activated position and I play on set volume and tone of each pickup. The bridge is said below, is a piece of metal topped by a piece of wood. on the other hand even if it does not look solid and the strings are a bit chiantes to change, I think the original bridge participates in his guitar and I did not hit (I have tried to modified bridge, they do not sound on mine). That said, not look robust, mine has like 10 years and the bridge did not budge - but I'm not angry either. The handle resembles a hybrid between that of a Fender Jazz bass and a Les Paul, the marriage of carp and rabbit sum. If you want a better comparison is halfway between a six and a Fender bass baritone les paul. In my case, I find it very comfortable and I can play in agreements for a long time without fatigue.

UTILIZATION

The handle is very comfortable, slip behind the veneer of fine, the key is of reasonable quality, it does not warp over time and is easily adjusted. Access to treble is identical to that of a Les Paul - but if you want a real access to acute, buy that unseemly Longhorn. The guitar is super light, from what I've read the material used is of Masonite, a type of pressed wood. The box is hollow. The balance of the guitar playing is perfect for sitting, standing on the other hand is worse because of the bizarre position under the handle of the clip. In addition to the fasteners hold moderately well. The sound, man, it's fabulous. The twang of 60s is obtained just by plugging the guitar and playing on it without special adjustment. If you want to give you an idea, listen to the soundtrack of Twin Peaks or of spaghetti westerns (the good the bad and the ugly in particular) that are made with single-coil baritone of the same type as this one. The aesthetics of the guitar is very successful, mine is black with a very brilliant polish the most beautiful effect is still very bright despite the time and a little touch of Pliz highlights beautifully. I like to play on an instrument that I find beautiful.

SOUNDS

Despite appearances this guitar is quite versatile, the only thing we can not do it with the metal because of the type of microphone but it sounds cons of hell in both fuzz (I have a big muff , thunder), Air (twang, tremolo, reverb, etc.). and to make sweet music (the guitar, this one, the same as mine, was used by Labradford 'e luxo so&#39 J 'uses this beauty at once with my Laney VC 15, reverb on the clean channel bottom and it sounds bright in the treble, in the round bass and pretty as any, or with guitar rig 3 or Amplitube Fender and again it sends including using the Bassman / Tweedman, which makes me say that on a real bassman it should sound really good but I never tried ... on the other hand must be good for HP to hear every nuance of the serious (a celestion vintage 12 "connected to my laney sounds much better than the Jensen 10" original). One thing to note, as a bass guitar that is destined to play with very old strings which all the gloss is gone, otherwise it will slap to death and I do not like it at all. The strings on mine were never changed and I will not do it if I did not break ... The sustain of the guitar, because of the hollow body and the strong pull of the strings is particularly long and arpeggios at very slow tempo, it's magic on this Dano. As effects, I think you have a spring reverb, tremolo and / or chorus (Danelectro Wasabi is my choice), and good old fuzz if you like it.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had it 5 years and has about 10 years. I play almost every day on it and it never moves (I'm not angry either, must say). She has a great sound, easy to adjust and works wonders in the slow tempo music where you hear every nuance of vibration of the strings when the sustain. It comes cheap, used like 350-450 euros (?) And the price / quality ratio is unbeatable seen that apart from Danelectro there is no such guitar in this price range. Basically, I love it and yes I would make the same choice if I was the fly Besides, I almost trade it against something much more ... And I kept it.

Complements of 30/01/2010:
- Pitch: this pitch seems to have a Dano 28 ". Data on the net are contradictory on the subject, but mine is a little longer than my epiphone baritone that it has a pitch of 27". Are there can be several models, including one would a bass VI with a pitch of 29.7 "?
- Tuning: tuning several classics are available, the "major third" (CFB <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Lucida Sans Unicode;">♭</span> E <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Lucida Sans Unicode;">♭</span> GC), the "perfect Fourth" (BEADF <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Lucida Sans Unicode;">♯</span> B) and perfect fifth (ADGCEA) respectively do, and if. The big metal tuning so that stains Mushok in G <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Lucida Sans Unicode;">♯ (G</span> # D # G # C # E # A #) I&#39;ve never tried.
- Strings: for the do or if, d&#39;addario light (13-62) are fine. For the, better take 14-68 (D&#39;Addario) or 12-68 (elixir) or 14-70 (ghs, la bella, ernie ball - it&#39;s the ones I feel), if your attention nut is metal like mine, do not take larger than 70 it would not go down ...

Update of 26/02/2011
I just spent the evening playing on this marvel who has not left the house since ... 7 years already? It was settled and modified by a luthier about six months ago and I advise you frankly to make the changes that all luthiers are familiar with the original danos on reissues:
- Replace the nut if it is plastic for a metal (on baritone, he is already in metal, so it&#39;s not worth it)
- Make notches in the wooden bridge that the strings do not move too much on it. The sound is not changed as if the original were replaced by a metal nut and noise are reduced.
- Adjust the microphone: all those like me who have Korean reissues of the early 2000s will tell you ESPECIALLY do not change the pickups! And especially not a baritone! A simple height adjustment only
- Do not make the economy a planimetry and possibly polishing the frets, do not forget that these are guitars made to the chain without any regard for quality of finish. This operation does a bone, but it&#39;s worth every penny.

I would do if this election? Tomorrow I lose or I&#39;ll break after tomorrow I bought another one (after a little cry on this one anyway)