Danelectro Convertible

1999 model made in Korea. 22 fret neck and double cut-away hollow plywood body. Volume and tone controls. Single "LipStick" pickup. Gloss two-tone finish. 'Floating' bridge and stop tailpiece. Non-locking DANELECTRO tuners with dust covers. Fat neck with satin finish. Hardside simulated tweed case.

Sounds best unplugged or through a tube amp. I sounds like shit through a solid state amp. Effects processors make it sound great. The cheap holo body and single "LipStick" pick up produces a distictive warm sustain that is noticable when played side-by-side with a non-acoustic DANELECTRO. Clean, chorus, and phasers sound the best. Fret heights are pretty uniform, however due to the 'floating' bridge and the solid metal tailpiece, there is a lot of fret buzz. DANELECTRO says it makes the guitar 'jangly.' I say it is annoying. I haven't tried this yet, but I plan to put some plastic or other non-metalic material between the ball-ends of the strings and the tailpiece to reduce the buzz.

Fit and finish are great. The action sucks. It was a little too high for me at first, but any lower would greatly increase the fret buzz. So I left it at the factory setting. The satin finish neck and the Rosewood neck are FLAWLESS. The finish was, and still is flawless (one year later). Neck fits snugly and evenly into the body. Minimal hardware, however very tight and sturdy.

This guitar is VERY light, and could get damaged when thrashing around, however there is no need to be overly carefull either. Neck strap button is plastic. Mine hasn't come out or broken yet.

Havent had to use it yet. I did have to E-mail DANELECTRO to get the instruction manual that I guess comes with it. They never sent it.

THE BRIDGE SUCKS. I E-mailed DANELECTRO and asked why the retarded design. They said that it is the original design and complimented the simplicity of the guitar. OK....... However, they did thank me for my opinion on the design and taking the trouble to advise them. It is a great knock-around, pick-it-up-and-play-it-when-you-are-bored guitar. Very light and compact.

This as basic as it gets. I bout it for ther great acoustic sould out of it. it is the basic Dano, made of plywood and masonite.

I play mainly blues and classic rock. It sounds great unplugged, but the minuate you plug it in, you've lost it. The lipstick pickup gives off tons of feedback.

The action is horrible. The floating bridge is the worst idea. It was fine until I have people "Try" to fix is because they didn't like the angle of the bridge. After that i could never get it right.

As long as nobldy touches the bridge it will be fine. The finish seems like it will last. If it is run through a good amp it might not have as much feed back. I think it should last a long time is maintained.

never used it

This is a pretty simple guitar, similar in feel to the Kramer Farrington hollow body. Korean made. Maple neck, rosewood fingerboard. Single lipstick P.U. Tailpiece style bridge. Standard tuners. Mine came with a case. Pretty basic. Some things need help, but we'll get there later...

I do a lot of accoustic/electric kinda bluesy, funky jazz. I got this guitar initially because of the great cheap Dobro-meets-banjo sound. Unplugged, it'll get drowned out in an empty room (just like any thinline accoustic), but plugged in, it yielded some surprises. The picked tone was pretty funky, but kinda died a little too fast for my taste; but the fingerpicked tone was pretty good. Actually sounded pretty "woodsy" and satisfying (note, either get an accoustic amp or a tube amp: this thing sounds like DEATH thru a standard solid state). After I jammed on it for a while, I started making modifications to improve on it. For instance, I plan to add a soundpost to increase response from the table to the back of the guitar.

Workmanship seems sound, and the finish is flawless. Only real flaw here is the bridge, which by design, kills the tone and buzzes like a motherf***er. This prompted my first modification, which was to swipe the tune'o'matic bridge from my Epiphone and put it on the Dan-o! The improvement was astounding! NOW, this guitar sounds a lot beefier plugged in, and sustains a lot more like a hollowbody should. I'll probably try some other bridge designs before I settle, though... Downside is, it makes the dan-o sound more electric. I may drop a fishman in it to counteract that effect, or swipe a bridge from a Harmony Rocket.

Seems to be pretty sound. Stays in tune pretty well, too. Finish seems good and thick (hardboard is one of the easiest things in the world to paint. Vinyl tape on the edge seems a little cheap, but it's holding on so far. Knobs seem a little delicate.

Haven't had to call them, yet.

I've played guitar for 8 years. I originally bought this guitar as a possible stand-by until I can afford a serious hollowbody. I have seen the poor quality of the Epiphones I've tried, and given the fact that no one in my town carries De'Armonds yet, I am unwilling to buy a guitar that I haven't played. Dan-o's seem to be pretty decent, given the price, and I hope to be playing this for a while. Only thing I would improve on is that bridge, which makes this instrument sound a lot worse than it is.

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i just did an acoustic gig with this guitar through a rockman acoustic pedal into a PA. It sounded cool. a bright sound which was well adjusted with tone control. Not noisy. Twangy.

Action was fine out of the box. Limousine Black-real nice.

I'll be careful. Doen't seem very sturdy. But good for the price.

I've been playing a long time. my style is bluesy country.

You know what this looks like. You know what the features are. Mine is new, aqua. For the price you can't get a better value. This guitar really is a hoot! And the tone control works better than on your average American Standard Tele (which I know isn't saying much). Love the cheesiness of the plastic body. It's light. Durable. And I don't care if my two labs slobber all over it. The bridge is surprisingly easy to adjust for intonation. I give it a 9, because what more can you want at this price?

Forget your fuzz or distortion. The convertible sounds best clean, or with a little phaser going. It's got a very funky hollow sound plugged in. Unplugged, it has a cheap blues thing going on. I'm using it w/a Trademark 60 from Tech 21 and pedals from Way Huge, Fulltone, Snarling Dog, etc...The pickups aren't noisy. And while this isn't an all purpose guitar, it certainly adds a new sound to your repertoire. I love it!

You definitely have to tweak the setup, move the bridge a little, y'know. The neck is decent, fast enough with a satin finish. Though it's NOT made for fast leads. Everything else seems fine...again for the price. (If I'd paid $1000 for this guitar I'd be mad as hell!) But for $200, it's a steal...the kind of guitar that can't help but make you smile. (Again, my rating is based on it's overall cost.)

Haven't had it long enough, but it seems pretty tough. C'mon, the body is plastic! And we all know plastic lasts forever.

I own a '59 musicmaster, a G&L S-500, and an American Std. Tele (should have a mid-60's Mustang soon). This convertible is just a perfect fit...a different sound. Unlike the other three, I have this one tuned to an open D. I'd buy a new one tomorrow if it were stolen. Buy it, love it, just have fun. Like I said, this guitar can't help but make you smile!

This is one of the new reissues from Korea. I'm guessing it's made at least partially by Cort, the company that makes guitars for Ibanez, Epiphone, and others because of the neck construction. Speaking of the neck, its a satin finish with rosewood fretboard, and is pretty fast until you get to the neck joint which is kind of bulky. But its a real basic guitar with stacked volume and tone one pickup and a soundhole. The tuners aren't the best and you might want to replace them, but they'll do. Also, change the strings on the guitar to acoustic bronze (mine are Martin Marquis) and it'll sound ten times better than with nickels. I do have one real gripe, and that's about the truss rod. It appears that the truss rod is adjustable from the headstock with a phillips head screwdriver, however, you have to take the neck off (like on old and some of the reissue fenders) to adjust it. Which sucks because you can never adjust it with tension on the neck.

As I stated above, you have to change to bronze strings for this guitar to sound great. I have yet to plug it into my rig, and yet can't put it down. It doesn't have the same acoustic tone as a Taylor or Martin, but if you're looking for a cheapo acoustic, it should definitely be considered.

The finish is pretty good, although is smells like nail polish for a few days. also, the contact paper around the guitar was coming up a little, but I easily smoothed it out. Again, the neck is great. I can't find a single high fret or anything (which is more than I can say for my Gibson SG Special) even out of the box with the original strings on it, it didn't buzz. You will have to set the intonation, and the bridge is not bolted down to the body. Over time, you may actually wear out the finish because of the 3 hex screws that adjust height. But when you finally get the intonation set, mark the body of the guitar with a permanent marker. This way if the bridge moves you can put it back quickly without losing too much time.

This is a Danelectro, with a body made out of glued and compressed sawdust. Pete Townshend would have trouble breaking it. As for the strap button, glue it in because it will come out.

I will probably be buying another for alternate tunings, and am now very interested in the rest of the Dan-0 line.

Bought this abominable piece of Formica in 64, along with a Univox 1x12 Tremolo amp. It is quite honestly a useless guitar shaped box made of Formica with a lipstick PU, 1/4 RCA phono jack in, and a pair of white puffy nobs Volume and TOne. THis guitar had a decent acoustic tone, for just a "throw around" guitar. It was a useless sounding piece of junk (for even slide applications) with the lipstick pickup, fed-back easily, and that poor excuse of a bridge would float all over the body with the vibration of the instrument eventually dropping of the guitar. I really can't believe that this useless thing has been reissued :(

FOrmica with strings

The action was tolerable, the neck was eratic, for an acoustic waterproof "throw around" guitar, it was so-so, never found, or heard any other guitar that made this look good. THis is the "bottom-of-the-line"

This guitar won't withstand an amplifier, it just screaches and feedsback... Once you get an audible level out of your amp, there is NO sustain, warmth, tone or anything worth bothering with..THis is a humiliating object to be seen with

THey were defunct when I bought it, THe best support they could give the music world is to cease attempting to make guitars. Their pedals work, there guitars are pieces of garbage.. I had a collection of better Lafayette electrics

I couldn't find anyone who'd even take this joke of an instrument, so I threw it in my college dumpster in 1978. Probably still there :/

This is one of the new Dano re-issues. It's a double-cutaway body, with one lipstick pickup straddling a soundhole. I think it's supposed to emulate an acoustic. I tested it at a music store. Hollow body. One volume, one tone control, stacked. No pickup selector, since only one pickup. Cord input is through the strap button on the butt of the body, like some acoustics. Giving it a 7 rating because it's kind of limited in use. I actually own two of the double cutaway DC models, and love them.

Like all the Danelectros, the tone was definitely like nothing else. It had the bright, hollow-sounding tone of my other two, but more "acoustic", which is what they were after, I guess. HOWEVER, it was a very weird tone, in fact when picked sounded almost like a BANJO. No kidding. Kind of twangy. Unique, though. I didn't like it, and I love the Danelectro products.

This was all fine. Set up great. Construction, like all these guitars, is fantastic for the price.

Unique guitar, unique sound. Not sure who would find a use for it.