Talk:Danelectro Shorthorn

This article should be renamed Danelectro_Shorthorn as the 59DC (as with the 59 Dano) is a reissue of the Danelectro Shorthorn line.

Which indidvidual models in the range included:

Standard models (Single Pickup: 3011,3012; Dual Pickups: 3021,3022,5025)
Deluxe models (Dual Pickups: 6026,6027,6028; Treble Pickups: 6036, 6037, 6038)
Vibrato models (Single Pickup: 4011; Dual Pickups: 4021;)

The black 3021 being the style most desired, as its the model Jimmy Page used.

This page has plenty of much needed info on these guitars:

http://www.danguitars.com/TheHistoryofDanelectro.html

So really this article needs modified and expanded slightly to be written about the original Danelectro Shorthorns, then at the end of the article go into the Re-issues and their differences (new models, features etc). MahavishnuChris (talk) 03:15, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that the guitar featured in Tom Waits' 'lie to me' video is not the 59DC, but the danelectro convertible (acoustic-electric) with a lipstick pick-up in the sound hole.

You're correct. I removed it, but it will be a good reference for the Convertible page when it's created. Marshall Stax (talk) 16:42, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

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"The Danelectro Convertible was a hollow-bodied thinline acoustic/electric guitar based on the Shorthorn. It had a conventional round sound hole with a lipstick pickup mounted diagonally across the hole." This is technically not correct, as on the originals the pickup was not mounted diagonally. There are plenty of pictures supporting this out and about, plus I have a 1969 model with the straight-mounted pickup. The reissues have the diagonal mounted pickup. I feel that this should be corrected. Brian.r.sorrell (talk) 02:34, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Electric guitar of electric bassguitar?

To me it seems as if we are talking about an electric guitar. From 1956 Danelectro made electric bassguitars, here and there/ noe and then being called Danelectro Shorthorn. in the article some bassists are included who played bass on it. However: most names are guitarists. Did the play a bassguitar using chords? Did they play, for the occasion, the bassguitar? Or... did the play a more or less normal/custom guitar? I've lost track here. Hope someone helps me out? Cheers --Allardo (talk) 12:40, 2 April 2019 (UTC)