Slightly cheap feeling is part of the Danelectro ethos, that’s the whole vibe behind their design approach. That’s not a slight against them, that’s how they found themselves making such unique instruments, they rock.
Not an excuse. You can build an awesome guitar with the Danelectro DNA (aluminium nut, maisonette/poplar body, stacked control knobs, bolt-on neck, lipstick pickups, etc.) without breaking the bank. CNC machines makes most of the manufacturing process a breeze when it comes to mass production. The new Harley Benton guitars are insanely good value for the money, and a name brand like Danelectro have no problem getting their guitars sold, regardless of the price, as long as the quality is there
@@wilhelmtheconquerer6214 you’ve misread my statement, I wasn’t making an excuse. Where Harley Benton and other budget brands make guitars that are budget variations of higher end instruments, Danelectro made budget guitrars that we’re trying to be higher end instruments. There’s a reason they’re legends.
Danelectro made some nice guitars, just don't expect that this sounds anything like Mosrite merely because it looks like a mini Mosrite Combo model. Mosrite Pups sound like a point between Fender and Gibson - with clarity of Fender, but "drier" sounding with more mids, and not as dark sounding as Gibson.
A real pleasure meeting Ben at the Northern guitar show last Sunday. A real Gent, and so generous with his time. Take no notice what he says, he is really cool!
Imagine the day you decide to construct a guitar where the body was constructed entirely from a matrix of interwoven old guitar strings....You'll be sorry then ;)
Here I am trying to make a single set of strings last for years and Ben just willy-nilly cuts through stuff like a maniac. To be fair, he's right, but it's like... I could use those...
A plastic nut? Both my Danelectros (baritone and 12-string) have metal nuts. Whatever, I love them (but I do really enjoy Marmite! 😉). Despite being budget guitars, my Danelectros arrived ready-to-go with really good set-ups, and I'd go so far as to say having at least one guitar with lipstick pickups is a "must" in any comprehensive line-up - it's such a distinctive and useful sound. 😎
12:45 - judging by the shape of that Eko bass in the background, I'd say that it was made by Matsomoku as it's dead ringer for the original Westone Thunder bass
I absolutely love Danelectro guitars. They’re quite fantastic, really. I have the Danelectro 64XT and I’ve been playing it so much, the frets need crowning after a year of owning one. The guitar in your video looks amazing and I’m absolutely digging the semi hollow looking f-hole.
I know, no one likes advice regarding security blahblah, but working on lathes or grinders/polishers with longs sleeves....you know ;) Cutting strings: of course, so i'm not tempted to reuse them. Same goes with unfixable, broken cables...
The Danelectro logo screams, this isn't a Mosrite a bit like putting a Vauxhall badge on a Ford, it just jars and the lipstick pickup looks like it's been plonked on to justify it. My first (semi) build was a solid Mosrite copy using Nos EKO parts including the neck! So if it was mine I'd put another p90 in the bridge position and replace the neck logo with one in the Mosrite font saying "not rite"
If Josh has questionable taste in everything-- does that include his taste in employers? Sorry couldn't restrain myself. Why not cut the strings? IF they're de-tuned and have a bit of slack, I see no reason not to. Under full tension, wouldn't there be a chance of them whipping out and injuring someone? Felt a bit of deja vu seeing that guitar. Less than an hour ago, I watched a video where a Crimson figure-out-your-own-shape kit ended looking a bit like that Danelectro, even to the angled P90 in the neck position.
Wait wait wait.... so this was Josh's guitar (working luthier) and STILL needs a fret job and shielding paint? Doooddddd.... Also on a side note... Chitty chitty bang bang!! Just funnin Jodh Luz ya buddy!
i like that one and that riff as teens on the "RHYTHM SECTION" i.e. rhythm giz, bass and drums do that as fast as possible in time, changing timing perfectly and alot of sweating face pulling and the drummer being one mad lad . happy time tried for 1/16th of a beat but not perfect lol
Yup, ruined the nut on my Casino, trying to do my 1st setup. Now it'll have go to the shop in '23. As far as Ben's question, I'd replace all the electronics, put Grovers on it, & a brass or steel nut 👌👍 Loving the teardowns!
Some pickups have a screw under each string. Why do we never see these being adjusted? If they were set by the manufacturer I would expect to see epoxy covering them so they weren't tampered with by idiots. So, why are they there and/or what do they do?
It's a weird one. Almost like it melted after being left too close to the fire. Dali clock guitar. Angles all over the place, and mostly in the opposite direction to convention. Mosrite vibe. I guess 66 is a vintage reference, so it's not trying to look modern. It would have to play well and sound good, cuz its got a deficit in the looks department (to my eye!).
I like this guitar, seems pretty cool, but the finish is bothersome. Every time the guitar angle changes and the lights hit it you can see the grain and where the wood is glued up for the body. They didn't do a very good job sealing it and sanding before the finish was sprayed.
That model is the 66T because it has a tremolo. For the price I think it looks really good. More in my price range than a real Mosrite for sure. Swap out those alphas for some Bourns pots and a switchcraft 3 way...
Hoping you can help, I placed an order at the end of October with crimson guitars, I was told that due to a delay in materials it would be sent the week after it was supposed too, however I have messaged the shop 4 times and have had no reply in regard to any update with it?
I have a Dano Hodad that has those double lipstick tube humbuckers. They are fun pickups! I'm glad they are splittable so you can get the single tube sound
This is all great fun, fascinating stuff. I need that guitar. Danelectros are my weakness. My Dano 63 bass certainly needs some tlc. Which brings me on to, when are we going to see a bass in this series?
with all the changes you do, you have to string and restring for a lot to check what has changed so the original string will save from using and re using new strings.
Ive been playing for about 30 years and i use to cut my strings off like you are here, i had a Gibson Les Paul that i did this too and the neck went way out of whack taking all the tension off the neck all at once. I was able to get the guitars neck fixed easy enough, and your a tech. But for your average person, who doesnt know how to do some of this work. I wouldnt recommend ya cutting all the string tension off a neck all at once. Slowly take that tension off. I even see some folks that cut one string and replace it and then go to the next (if they are not conditioning the FB). There may have been another issue with that LP i didnt catch, but it was enough of a pain that I now cut one string at a time and replace them one at a time. Never fully taking the tension off a neck. Now this LP that i had this happen to was a 74. So their may have been other things at work, but as i said above, it was enough to make me change how i do string changes. 🙂 Thanks for the videos :-) Id love to know what you guys think about G&L guitars :-)
I don’t understand how’s it’s a faraday cage when the pots / switch and pickups are sticking outside the “cage” to me it’s like standing in a faraday cage with your legs / head and arms sticking out 😂 especially concerning the pickups being stuck outside I never shield my guitars haven’t noticed any difference at all from when I did do it . I just sheld a pickguard if using one as I found it can be noisy over any wires with the picking hand but not much of an noise Just don’t get the faraday cage thing myself 😁
If the pickups were shielded, you wouldn't get any sound. The shielding is to shield the wires/pots/electronics from external EM interference, such as fluorescent lights, telly/computer screens etc., to stop it all acting like an aerial. Try playing some high gain stuff under fluorescent lights and you'll notice. If you're a mostly low to mid-gain player like myself, it's not so apparent, so you may not have encountered any problems.
@Crimson Custom Guitars sounds awesome to me Ben I'm going to Kent early new year to see my brother so only a few hours drive from his....love a good guitar trip....
fair point.. it is one of those phrases now like tremolo.. we all know it isn't really a tremolo but also know what we're talking about when it is mentioned..
I'm pretty ambivalent about actual marmite but unlike the other teardowns so far I can't think of a single aspect of that guitar I like (I do like the new 'presenter team' of Ben, Josh, and Sophia though).
i cant lie,. i really like the look of that axe/ i myself would replace the pickguard to mirrored plastic or aluminium. i would replace the humbucker surrounds for chromed. i would replace the nut too. tempted to replace some of the switches, maybe not, depend on the feel . the rest i would leave
Slightly cheap feeling is part of the Danelectro ethos, that’s the whole vibe behind their design approach. That’s not a slight against them, that’s how they found themselves making such unique instruments, they rock.
Not an excuse. You can build an awesome guitar with the Danelectro DNA (aluminium nut, maisonette/poplar body, stacked control knobs, bolt-on neck, lipstick pickups, etc.) without breaking the bank. CNC machines makes most of the manufacturing process a breeze when it comes to mass production. The new Harley Benton guitars are insanely good value for the money, and a name brand like Danelectro have no problem getting their guitars sold, regardless of the price, as long as the quality is there
@@wilhelmtheconquerer6214 you’ve misread my statement, I wasn’t making an excuse. Where Harley Benton and other budget brands make guitars that are budget variations of higher end instruments, Danelectro made budget guitrars that we’re trying to be higher end instruments. There’s a reason they’re legends.
Danelectro made some nice guitars, just don't expect that this sounds anything like Mosrite merely because it looks like a mini Mosrite Combo model. Mosrite Pups sound like a point between Fender and Gibson - with clarity of Fender, but "drier" sounding with more mids, and not as dark sounding as Gibson.
A real pleasure meeting Ben at the Northern guitar show last Sunday. A real Gent,
and so generous with his time. Take no notice what he says, he is really cool!
you are too kind, thank you :)
Either I'm going blind (possible) or that guitar only has 22 frets?
It only has 22 frets. I counted. It's just that the 21st doesn't have a marker, so it looks weird. But it definitely has 22 frets only.
I love those cheap feeling Danelctro's . Something about them feels like home.
Imagine the day you decide to construct a guitar where the body was constructed entirely from a matrix of interwoven old guitar strings....You'll be sorry then ;)
Here I am trying to make a single set of strings last for years and Ben just willy-nilly cuts through stuff like a maniac.
To be fair, he's right, but it's like... I could use those...
Drop us an email, we'll save a few sets for you.
You can buy them new £625.50 .
A plastic nut? Both my Danelectros (baritone and 12-string) have metal nuts. Whatever, I love them (but I do really enjoy Marmite! 😉). Despite being budget guitars, my Danelectros arrived ready-to-go with really good set-ups, and I'd go so far as to say having at least one guitar with lipstick pickups is a "must" in any comprehensive line-up - it's such a distinctive and useful sound. 😎
Because they are only guitar strings if they are not cut?
You can always use a surrogate “body” to secure the neck when off the guitar. I.E. a big lump of wood (or ur bench), to screw it onto
12:45 - judging by the shape of that Eko bass in the background, I'd say that it was made by Matsomoku as it's dead ringer for the original Westone Thunder bass
Hate the way Mosrites look but love the pickups
I absolutely love Danelectro guitars. They’re quite fantastic, really. I have the Danelectro 64XT and I’ve been playing it so much, the frets need crowning after a year of owning one. The guitar in your video looks amazing and I’m absolutely digging the semi hollow looking f-hole.
HEY HO,LET'S GO!!Johnny Ramone's Mosrite guitar made history!!
I know, no one likes advice regarding security blahblah, but working on lathes or grinders/polishers with longs sleeves....you know ;)
Cutting strings: of course, so i'm not tempted to reuse them. Same goes with unfixable, broken cables...
Strings are people too! 😢
The Danelectro logo screams, this isn't a Mosrite a bit like putting a Vauxhall badge on a Ford, it just jars and the lipstick pickup looks like it's been plonked on to justify it. My first (semi) build was a solid Mosrite copy using Nos EKO parts including the neck! So if it was mine I'd put another p90 in the bridge position and replace the neck logo with one in the Mosrite font saying "not rite"
If Josh has questionable taste in everything-- does that include his taste in employers? Sorry couldn't restrain myself.
Why not cut the strings? IF they're de-tuned and have a bit of slack, I see no reason not to. Under full tension, wouldn't there be a chance of them whipping out and injuring someone?
Felt a bit of deja vu seeing that guitar. Less than an hour ago, I watched a video where a Crimson figure-out-your-own-shape kit ended looking a bit like that Danelectro, even to the angled P90 in the neck position.
That guitar needs a marmite finish to be complete. Sunburst marmite maybe?
Dan Electro make good guitars for the money. So many squishy pears, I use zero frets now. :)
9:44 maybe can filming this when you adjusting the truss rob, capture the fretboard or neck reaction .
17:30 I thought they were bench cookies; also, do you have to buy the ones with pillars separate or can you just screw them all together like a kit?
I also sever the strings because it seems to give me more control over the removal of them. I think I've whipped myself in the face a couple of times.
Love a good danelectro i have had one now for 20 years, also Ben it was a pleasure to meet you at the guitar show in Liverpool
yes, nobody wants a great big flappy nut slot. Or a slooshy pear.
You should save the strings and give them to some starving musician! 🤡
Good pear analogy. Too much, too late, almost anyway.
Love my danos. Them danelectro tweed cases are like hens teeth too.
Mmm my dad worked at mosrite before i was born though he never owned one
Why don’t you mould a 8-string guitar
Wait wait wait.... so this was Josh's guitar (working luthier) and STILL needs a fret job and shielding paint? Doooddddd.... Also on a side note... Chitty chitty bang bang!! Just funnin Jodh Luz ya buddy!
i like that one and that riff as teens on the "RHYTHM SECTION" i.e. rhythm giz, bass and drums do that as fast as possible in time, changing timing perfectly and alot of sweating face pulling and the drummer being one mad lad . happy time tried for 1/16th of a beat but not perfect lol
...18..19...20...21......23 frets, strange.
Yup, ruined the nut on my Casino, trying to do my 1st setup. Now it'll have go to the shop in '23. As far as Ben's question, I'd replace all the electronics, put Grovers on it, & a brass or steel nut 👌👍 Loving the teardowns!
Some pickups have a screw under each string. Why do we never see these being adjusted? If they were set by the manufacturer I would expect to see epoxy covering them so they weren't tampered with by idiots. So, why are they there and/or what do they do?
It's a weird one. Almost like it melted after being left too close to the fire. Dali clock guitar.
Angles all over the place, and mostly in the opposite direction to convention. Mosrite vibe.
I guess 66 is a vintage reference, so it's not trying to look modern. It would have to play well and sound good, cuz its got a deficit in the looks department (to my eye!).
I like this guitar, seems pretty cool, but the finish is bothersome. Every time the guitar angle changes and the lights hit it you can see the grain and where the wood is glued up for the body. They didn't do a very good job sealing it and sanding before the finish was sprayed.
That model is the 66T because it has a tremolo. For the price I think it looks really good. More in my price range than a real Mosrite for sure. Swap out those alphas for some Bourns pots and a switchcraft 3 way...
My wife and I love it, but we hate marmite. Don't know how concerned I should be.
Hoping you can help, I placed an order at the end of October with crimson guitars, I was told that due to a delay in materials it would be sent the week after it was supposed too, however I have messaged the shop 4 times and have had no reply in regard to any update with it?
"coolest trem since sliced cheese" :)
I have a Dano Hodad that has those double lipstick tube humbuckers. They are fun pickups! I'm glad they are splittable so you can get the single tube sound
I see only 22 frets. What is he on about? 4:36
Yeah.. um, about that.. I'm thinking dementia maybe? 😞
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars The only prescription is more coffee, or maybe less lol
This is all great fun, fascinating stuff. I need that guitar. Danelectros are my weakness. My Dano 63 bass certainly needs some tlc. Which brings me on to, when are we going to see a bass in this series?
"VERY Marmite Guitar", I can't! xD
I love Danelectro guitars. I own a '59 in Psychedelic finish. Love it.
with all the changes you do, you have to string and restring for a lot to check what has changed so the original string will save from using and re using new strings.
Anyone else think it’s got 22 frets not 23 like Ben said?????
Aasrrggg. I don't know what I was thinking.. I even counted the damn things twice! Senile? Caffeine deprived? Just plain stupid maybe? 😆 sorry
The center seam where the body was joined is visible in the paint in the reflection when seen from an angle. Did you notice that as well?
definitely change the knobs... (they look the cheapest)
Just being in my hands would make it much cooler
Is it missing the wiggle stick? I didn't see the trem arm in any of the photos on the website.
I love it
Ive been playing for about 30 years and i use to cut my strings off like you are here, i had a Gibson Les Paul that i did this too and the neck went way out of whack taking all the tension off the neck all at once. I was able to get the guitars neck fixed easy enough, and your a tech. But for your average person, who doesnt know how to do some of this work. I wouldnt recommend ya cutting all the string tension off a neck all at once. Slowly take that tension off. I even see some folks that cut one string and replace it and then go to the next (if they are not conditioning the FB). There may have been another issue with that LP i didnt catch, but it was enough of a pain that I now cut one string at a time and replace them one at a time. Never fully taking the tension off a neck. Now this LP that i had this happen to was a 74. So their may have been other things at work, but as i said above, it was enough to make me change how i do string changes. 🙂
Thanks for the videos :-)
Id love to know what you guys think about G&L guitars :-)
Oh and you said "since sliced cheese". In my circle of folks its "sliced bread" hehe ;-) Its sliced one or the other ! hehehe
I don’t understand how’s it’s a faraday cage when the pots / switch and pickups are sticking outside the “cage” to me it’s like standing in a faraday cage with your legs / head and arms sticking out 😂 especially concerning the pickups being stuck outside
I never shield my guitars haven’t noticed any difference at all from when I did do it . I just sheld a pickguard if using one as I found it can be noisy over any wires with the picking hand but not much of an noise
Just don’t get the faraday cage thing myself 😁
If the pickups were shielded, you wouldn't get any sound. The shielding is to shield the wires/pots/electronics from external EM interference, such as fluorescent lights, telly/computer screens etc., to stop it all acting like an aerial. Try playing some high gain stuff under fluorescent lights and you'll notice. If you're a mostly low to mid-gain player like myself, it's not so apparent, so you may not have encountered any problems.
It looks like it's different just for the sake of being different. There doesn't seem to be any functional advantages at all.
Does that not describe the majority of guitars on the market?
Josh - The Pear analogy was perfect!!
Does Josh in fact have a tint of red(ish) in his beard?
Is the museum good enough for me to drive from Sunderland...?
not yet.. but we're working on it.. and will throw in coffee and a chat if you come down anyway!
@Crimson Custom Guitars sounds awesome to me Ben I'm going to Kent early new year to see my brother so only a few hours drive from his....love a good guitar trip....
Where can I acquire the bench pucks that you use to elevate the instrument? Thank you!
Dan Reed
Bench cookies
Your search engine of choice should throw up local suppliers.
Why don't you like the German carve?
I really don't know but at this point it is sort of a part of me.. my dislike of this design feature kind of defines me 😆
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Daym! Wasn't expecting such a personal rational. That's deep.
I love Mosrite guitars, Semi Mosly was a true genius! 💞
What woods is it built from?
I prefer Vegemite...🤣
Love the pear analogy :D
I love this guitar!
Sorry Ben, but you really gotta stop calling it a coil tap when it's a coil split, lol.
fair point.. it is one of those phrases now like tremolo.. we all know it isn't really a tremolo but also know what we're talking about when it is mentioned..
@@CrimsonCustomGuitars One person's split is another's tap, or something like that 🤔
Here....Words for algorithm
Why thank you!
Heading over to the giveaway now
Thank you for your support!
Will the whammy bar come with it 🙂
yes..
I'm pretty ambivalent about actual marmite but unlike the other teardowns so far I can't think of a single aspect of that guitar I like (I do like the new 'presenter team' of Ben, Josh, and Sophia though).
i cant lie,. i really like the look of that axe/ i myself would replace the pickguard to mirrored plastic or aluminium. i would replace the humbucker surrounds for chromed. i would replace the nut too. tempted to replace some of the switches, maybe not, depend on the feel . the rest i would leave
I love the exposure this series gives to other guitars I typically would never see😎
I hate it. It looks like something a non musician would buy their kid from Walmart for Christmas kicking off a decade or more of disappointment...
The grub screw at the back of each saddle IS the fine adjustment!