From Danelectro..."Back in ’63 an odd-looking electric guitar burst onto the pages of the Sears catalogue. Danelectro’s “model 1449” would soon become the rage of garage bands and pros alike. Why? One reason was tone. Danelectro’s pickups, ingeniously housed in lipstick tubes, quickly became known for their “signature twang”. The guitar bodies were lightweight and featured a hollow inner chamber which made them sonically “alive”… unlike traditional solid bodies." Fast forward forty-five years…Danelectro re-issues this prized guitar…calling it the “Dano 63”. Our first task in bringing back this great guitar was to replicate the 60’s era Lipstick pickups. That meant acquiring dozens of old Lipsticks and tearing them apart to uncover their “secrets”. The resulting reissue pickups are hot and sweet and sonically accurate to the originals. Next we upgraded the tuners and bridges to make this guitar as fun to play as it is to listen to. And to make it just as fun to look at, we combed old paint archives for just the right “retro” colors to capture the soul and spirit of this great guitar. We then plated all the hardware with “zero gloss” nickel. "
So, it has a masonite body with plywood core, but features a solid plywood block from neck pocket to bridge for super solidity. There are also 2 chambered sides around the bridge The 63 has a maple neck with double acting truss rod and a C shaped neck section for mass appeal. (Bolted on too). Scale length is 25" with 19 frets. Fret board is rosewood with Pearloid inlays and the tuners are high ratio with sealed gears For the bridge we have adjustable saddles and again zero gloss nickel plate. The two Dano lipstick pickups are single coil, controlled with a single volume and tone w/ 3-way toggle pickup selector. Down the edge there is a rather unusual but accurate vinyl binding tape, which like other parts of this re-issued are stained for aged appearance. (Don't be alarmed by this-it is made like that!)
