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Did Danelectro ever make a Dolphin-head under their own name or just the Silvertones?Will wrote: Dolphin-head with a humbucker - looks awesome and has period correct concentric knobs
Good question. If they do exist, I don't think I've ever seen one. The dolphin-nose guitars were only made from the last half of 60 through 61, and by that time about 80% of Dano's guitars were branded for Sears. It would certainly be a rare bird!westtexasred wrote:Did Danelectro ever make a Dolphin-head under their own name or just the Silvertones?Will wrote: Dolphin-head with a humbucker - looks awesome and has period correct concentric knobs
paul_ wrote:When are homeland security gonna get on this "2-piece King Size Snickers" horseshit that showed up a couple years ago? I've started dropping one of them on the floor of my car every time.
Love them or hate them, Evets does in fact own the rights to use the name in that context.In his autobiography, Joseph N. “Joe� Fisher, Sears’ principal musical instrument buyer from 1959 to 1968, wrote that “Nat was an innovator who understood the principle of ‘rigid control of expense,’ an example of which was his innovative and inexpensive … magnetic pickups used in electric guitars. He made them from surplus [actually, they were not “surplus� at all] lipstick tubes, bought from a cosmetics manufacturer. He inserted the electronics in the tubes and produced the lowest cost guitar pickup in the industry.� Low-cost they may have been, but their innovative design makes them still highly sought-after by many guitarists today, who love their distinctive sound as well as their “cool� appearance.
