coco wrote:
How does that '63 reissue on their web-site compare to a Tele sound? Looks very similar anyway. Lipstick pick-up etc. Interesting.
Not sure. I think that one has a plywood body. I have the more traditional kind, with a hollow body, as shown in the picture below. The lipstick pickups have a wiry scooped tone, which is almost acoustic guitar like, and very different from the sound of a typical Fender pickup. One of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Strats had all lipstick pickups.
bgroup wrote:
Phil, my Dano is the 59 DC also... the reissue from 2 years ago (is yours an original one??)... (the 90's reissues were dodgy from what I understand)...
Mine is a '90s re-issue. I'm afraid an original one would have been out of my price range, and then I wouldn't have dared mod it the way I did.
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I have no complaints about the build quality - all nice and solid, as far as a Dano could ever be. Basically, it's built exactly how the originals were, while the later ones had various gimmicks, such as adjustable bridge saddles.
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It has a hot Kent Armstrong lipstick pickup at the neck, wound RW/RP for hum cancellation. The output of that balances nicely with the bridge P-90. I used to find the tone from bridge lipstick was just to thin to be any use on its own. I also put in a mini-toggle series/parallel switch. With both pickups in parallel, you get a nice smooth single coil sound, that's not too far from a Fenderish tone. Switch them in series and it sounds like H/Bs, which is great for solos and Zep-style riffing.
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That's not the only trick I've got hidden away inside this particular guitar, but I'll leave that for later.
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This is what my guitar looks like, but I'm afraid that's not me playing it.
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bgroup wrote:
http://www.trinityamps.com/clips/TC15/bgroup/2ndset/TC15_Ch2_Dirty_Crunch_Hi_hiINPUT_Dano.mp3
http://www.trinityamps.com/clips/TC15/b ... T_Tele.mp3
Heh, those are more like what I call clean!
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