Wandering on several sites, I noticed two things:
1) It looks like that some models like as the Dano '63, the Dano Pro and the Dano Dead On '67 are no more available or, if there is any shop that still sells them, they are just leftover stock;
2) The prices of both Danelectro guitars and basses (and effect pedals too, especially the Cool Cat series) have risen! I remember that you could buy a new Dano DC '59 with less than € 300-330 a couple of years ago: the price of a Dano DC '59 is about € 380-420 now! And the price of the Dano '67 Heaven and Dano Wild Things is around € 400-450 (check out this prices on Thomann and GAK).
Does anyone know what is the reason of all this? And how does work the Danelectro production? I've always had the impression that it is quite discontinuous...
What's happening to Danelectro?
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What's happening to Danelectro?
-Guitar: Squier VM Mustang, Squier CV '50 Duo Sonic;
-Amplifier: Hughes&Kettner Blue Edition 60;
-FXs: Dunlop Cry Baby GCB-95 Wah, Boss BD-2 Blues Drive, Proco RAT, Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo, EH Small Clone, MUZA FD900, Bespeco Volume pedal.
-Amplifier: Hughes&Kettner Blue Edition 60;
-FXs: Dunlop Cry Baby GCB-95 Wah, Boss BD-2 Blues Drive, Proco RAT, Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo, EH Small Clone, MUZA FD900, Bespeco Volume pedal.
Re: What's happening to Danelectro?
...that is a plywood guitar. Yes I thought about increasing of prices too. Actually I'm not against plywood guitar, but modern Danelectros are hollow body guitars and they have a block of plywood under the bridge that doesnt connect to any other elements of body frame. Once I want to buy here reissue of 63 model, but decided that with the drastically changing season temperature here it can easily delaminate and didn't buy it.Golden_Sonic wrote:the price of a Dano DC '59 is about € 380-420 now!
They maybe expensive because they started to use better hardware like Gotoh tuners and maybe better(more expensive) pickups.
matte30is wrote:Someone man up and get a balloon.
Any models issued since they were resurrected as a guitar company a few years back have been limited runs. Basically, the factory runs off X number of guitars of the current models and then stops. That's that. As far as I'm aware they have not switched over to a more "continuous" production line so it makes sense that 2-3 year old models are now becoming scarce. Some have gone and come back, of course, but usually in different finishes and with slightly different fittings.
Additionally, I have no idea if this is the case, but modern Danos appear to be constructed from "better" materials than the originals/original reissues of 1999. At the very least, they're much heavier instruments. Add that to inflation and growing appreciation of them as serious instruments and that explains the price rise over time. With the limited production runs it means prices will pretty much always stay fairly close to retail.
Additionally, I have no idea if this is the case, but modern Danos appear to be constructed from "better" materials than the originals/original reissues of 1999. At the very least, they're much heavier instruments. Add that to inflation and growing appreciation of them as serious instruments and that explains the price rise over time. With the limited production runs it means prices will pretty much always stay fairly close to retail.
Brandon W wrote:you elites.
I think the global price for homophobia has been steadily rising over the last five years and this has obviously had an impact on Danelectro's cost base. They have needed to pass some of this on to the consumer, hence the higher RRPs.
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Yep, the body construction is much more solid and the pickups significantly hotter than the 90s reissues. As a result they sound/feel less like vintage ones.ekwatts wrote:Additionally, I have no idea if this is the case, but modern Danos appear to be constructed from "better" materials than the originals/original reissues of 1999.
My favourites are the 90s DC-3s. Owned two of these:
I've been using a 90s 56-U2 as my main electric for a few years and as far as I can tell, the build and quality are great. Especially for the money.timhulio wrote:Yep, the body construction is much more solid and the pickups significantly hotter than the 90s reissues. As a result they sound/feel less like vintage ones.ekwatts wrote:Additionally, I have no idea if this is the case, but modern Danos appear to be constructed from "better" materials than the originals/original reissues of 1999.
My favourites are the 90s DC-3s. Owned two of these:
I had a Danelectro for a short while. My only gripes are: That plasticy strip around the sides of the guitar didn't have a very finished and clean edge, nor was it mounted to the body well (it looked like it would start to fall off eventually) and that their pickguard material is super cheap feeling. It seems like laminated mdf with no bevel? Possibly a old fashion feature, but I didn't like it.
The 90s reissues really were fantastic. I like the new ones, I like the fact that they're out there but they're not really the same. Apart from the Dead on 67s none of them have really excited me at all. I find it funny that the things I love about them are the exact things that seem to turn so many people off them, like the vinyl strip, the toy-like lightness of construction, the flat fretboards... the only thing I can do without, having had one now for over 12 years, is that crappy wood bridge. I've been meaning to replace it for ages.timhulio wrote:Yep, the body construction is much more solid and the pickups significantly hotter than the 90s reissues. As a result they sound/feel less like vintage ones.ekwatts wrote:Additionally, I have no idea if this is the case, but modern Danos appear to be constructed from "better" materials than the originals/original reissues of 1999.
My favourites are the 90s DC-3s. Owned two of these:
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Also, I doubt the homophobia thing is really having any impact on sales but that's not the point of the boycott anyway; it's simply to take a moral stance against companies that fund radical rightwing bullshit. I won't be spending money on new Dano products in the future.
Brandon W wrote:you elites.
NO TIM.
Guitars need to be made a particular way, all the time. They cannot deviate from that.
But naw, Rox doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. People played them because they were good. That they were cheap was a bonus. Jimmy Page played almost every single slide piece on his Danelectro. Not because somebody famous had played one. Because he liked it. Because it was good.
Guitars need to be made a particular way, all the time. They cannot deviate from that.
But naw, Rox doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. People played them because they were good. That they were cheap was a bonus. Jimmy Page played almost every single slide piece on his Danelectro. Not because somebody famous had played one. Because he liked it. Because it was good.
Brandon W wrote:you elites.
