Danelectro Innuendo

The standard with the built in effects as always in this model. Tobaccobrown to black burst finish with a few sparkles, built in Korea in 2000 maybe? 3 pickups, Strat style tremolo. Mosrite style body.

Very thin and boring sound for my opinion! I was really dissapointed! I play 60`s styled intrumental Surfmusic and normally I use Fender Jazzmasters or jaguars or Yamaha SGV300`s or 800`s or Mosrites or Danelectro. But this Dano is really a timewaster! Once I had a Danelectro 56U2, which was a great sounding guitar! It was even from Korea. This Innuendo sounds like a bad and crabby ceapo Strat. Don`t waste your money for this!

This guitar has a bad feeling at all! I like cheap guitars sometimes but this Dano has got bad hardware at all! The finish is okay but who needs good finish on a bad guitar? The neck was very uncomfortable. The body felt not ready styled.

Not reliable at all. In fact I didn`t played this on stage because it sounded too poor... Tuning problems... I wouldn`t depend on this guitar.

I sold it before I needed support.

Get another Danelectro because this one sucks! I played other Danos and they were much better!!! I play guitar since 12 years. Had over 50 guitars meanwhile. I like 60`s guitars or payable reissues! I play 60`s Instrumental Surf. With Fender Showman Amp from 1963 and Fender Reverb tank reissue. Mostly i play Fender Jazzmasters, Yamaha SGV300`s, SGV800`s, Hallmarks, Mosrites, all kind of funny and good sounding guitars!

I guess it was made it 2000. Korean. 21 frets. 3 single-coils with the 5-position switch & 4 knobs (volume, tone, wah-like effect for distortion, & speed control for tremolo). The distortion kicks in way too loud to be of practical use, but it's fun to crank up for noisy feedback. I like the chorus, & I can actually use it on a couple of songs. Tremolo effect gives a nice texture for certain applications. I don't use any pedals, so the on-board effects open up whole new worlds to me.
Strat-style tremolo bridge had to be adjusted a little; the low E buzzes on a couple of frets. Bought used at a pawn shop with Dano gig bag included, but no trem bar.
Mine is a black sunburst with metal flake glitter. I bought it because the shop was filled with Strats & Les Paul-style, some metal Vs & mockingbird-type. I wanted something different, something not everyone played, because, like it or not, you are judged partially by the instrument you walk onstage with.

Suits my style quite well - my bass player was nearly speechless when I unveiled it yesterday. Good thick tone with the neck/center pickup configuration & tone set around 6. I tried using it with the bridge pickup but the sound is too thin & cancels out my voice.
I played it with the effects jack plugged into a Hot Rod Deluxe & the clean jack going into my Vox Nova 1x8. The effects jack is noisy if I move the cable in it - can probably clean that up.
The variety of sounds is such that I love some of them, & some are useless to me. & I'm not a tonester like my brother is but I may become a bit of one due to this guitar. I find it a very smooth & inspirational guitar to play.

I bought it used, but it didn't seem to have had much modification. The middle pickup is pushed down into the body, with an obviously aftermarket flathead screw holding it on one end, but from what another reviewer said about that pickup, this is to my advantage. The E-A-D strings were over the top of the tuners when I got it, with the D bending around the peg for the A. Easy enough to fix, especially since I was replacing the rusty-ass strings it came with. One tuner (the G) had the screw & washer missing, but that's no fault of the manufacturer. Overall the knobs & switches work really well.

I believe this guitar will be just fine for gigs. I hope so, since I plan to make it my primary instrument, with my gold archtop double-cutaway Hamer &/or my Mexican Tele as my backup. Once I replace the tuner screw & washer I think the hardware will be great. As previously stated, stays in tune really well. Much better than my Hamer. My bass player is going to give me a Strat tremolo bar so I can take advantage of that feature, though it doesn't suffer any without it.

I've been playing for about 27 years, both guitar & bass. Most of my real gigs (touring, recording, SxSW, etc.) have been as a bass player, but now that my own act is my primary focus, the Innuendo is my primary guitar. I love this thing.
Other gear includes aforementioned Tele & Hamer, a Fender D-10 acoustic, Fender P-bass, Fender Bronco bass (the Badtz Maru model), Fender Princeton 12-watt combo, Vox Nova, & some other stuff not worth mentioning. I'm about to buy a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe.
If this guitar was stolen, I would hope to find another. I know I could get it pretty cheap if I did. Mostly I like the tone of it, but playability is a powerful factor, & the effects are a little bonus. Can't say I hate anything about it (yet; I've only had it 4 days). I bought a 335-style semi-hollow that I pawned because it was no good to me. I had a brown Les Paul Special that I gave to my brother because he loves them & needed it a lot more than I did. Years ago I had a Kramer strat with two singles & a humbucker & a Floyd Rose. This guitar is my favorite of all of them. It's nicely balanced, solid, versatile.

Nothing too special, the built-in effects are kind of cool, but not very good. I usually just plug into the bypass input, but when i do use the effects its just the "Echo" (Reverb) or Tremelo. The Chorus isn't adjustable and can get overbearing and the distortion sucks. The tuners are loose, which makes it hard to tune initially but once it is in tune it stays in tune. It's basically Squire Strat quality and build (22 frets, 3 single-coil pickups, 5-way selector switch) only a little bigger and significantly heavier. Pretty sure it's Korean made. Has bolt-on neck.

I play a lot of noise and indie stuff in a band, by myself I play all sorts of styles. This guitar will work for just about anything, and is great for someone looking to get a first guitar if they are not sure if they are serious about playing. Does have a pretty wide range of tones for its price

I have never had to do any work to the major parts of the guitar (neck, frets, tuners, pickups, bridge), currently I use it mostly as a backup guitar, but it has seen plenty of use over the last four years I've had it.

I have played this guitar in practices and live shows and it is a beast. It has been handled fairly roughly (in terms of guitars, I still take good care of it, but I don't treat it with the same respect as my SG or JEM) and it is in the same condition as the day I got it. My only complaint is that the screws over the input knobs come loose pretty easily. Also, after about a year the strap bolt came out, but I replaced it with a dot of glue and it hasn't been a problem since.

Never used.

Overall, this guitar is a great beater, just to have handy for practice or a backup guitar for a similar build (Strat) or for someone begining on electric guitar.

I purchased new at Guitar Center in 2000? I can't remember exactly. I can tell you I have hundreds of hours on this guitar and am still happy and amazed that for such a small price I have a guitar that is robust, has many, many different sounds plus effects that still work perfectly.
I have several pedals and amps so I usually use the clean (no effects port). The guitar has a superb neck profile and shape allowing easy smooth access and reach, but still giving the best hand anchor points of ANY of my other guitars. After playing several other guitars for days on end, I still get this "ahhhh" feeling (like my best shoes) when I begin running up and down the board.

Frets wear extremely well. Tuners stay in tune. Don't use the 'trem' (I never use one).

Surf, Rock, Blues, Jazz. It is maybe a tad more vesatile than my other guitars. You can ring it like a bell, quack it like a duck, or run it though the mud. The pups are surprisingly hot.

I set it up originally. Beautiful straight neck. Fretwork is perfect and is wearing very well indeed. Finish is excellent. I don't trash my guitars. The only fault is the location of the truss rod nut. Just remove (partially) the pickguard. No big deal.

Very good guitar. Very good solid body and neck attachment.

Rant:
The Guitar neck, frets, board will last a long time if you do the following (or similar proceedure).
Wash hand every time you play. The salts and acid will ruin the slick finish and wear out the frets and strings in astonishingly fast order!
Have you ever picked up someone else's axe and found the whole thing was unplayable from the neglect? Like putting a set of strings on a pine tree in the woods. The same people probably don't change oil in their vehicle or change underwear after an accident! :)

Get a good cotton cloth and use a tiny amount of rubbing alcohol on the corner of the cloth and clean the strings, board and neck. Then apply a little FAST FRET (white mineral oil) and wipe dry.

Too bad they have changed the product line. I guess they only offer the longhorn bass. I don't know the real story behind the company, but they probably hurt themselves with too low a price point. It made people skitish (fear is a bad emotion) about the product. I hope someone revives the line. Very good value guitars.

50+ years. Eastwood Sidejack, Squier Tele, Standard Strat, three Squier Strats, Squier Bronco bass, Ibanez bass, Yamaha Pacifica (nice guitar). Have owned many, many gits. One I wish I hadn't sold was a nice Dano U-2.
Everyone has their preferences and that's how it should be. This guitar, and others in the reissue line represent some of the best values in guitars. If it has the features you like and the sound you crave, get one.

Me and my buddy found this guitar in our house. Another buddy of ours is stashing his gear here and this guitar was just among the pile. Guitar is Korean made, no idea how old it is. Looks to be a rosewood fretboard with maple neck, also no idea what the body is made of. The neck is bolt on. When we found it the action was so close to the frets it buzzed until about the 19th fret and didn't even sing the right note open. We had to remove the neck to adjust the truss rod. Annoying. Bridge string height adjustment is just weird and has to be aligned perfectly. The guitar has a through-body string setup and a tremolo bridge but it had no whammy bar with it, so we took one off a strat. 4 effects buttons (distortion, chorus, tremolo, reverb), 1 Volume knob, 1 Tone knob, and 2 "Effects" knobs (Reverb and Chrorus unchangeable), 5-way switch, and 3 Strat-style pickups. Paint is like a midnight blue with what looks like gigantic chips of already dried-and-chipped-off silver spray paint. Little too retro for my taste, I play a 62' Gibson SG Special. Also has a graphite nut and some tuners that require full rotations to move the sound a half-step. Lots of cranking in order to find tune it.

For a goofy Beach Boys-lookin Danelectro it actually has a quite impressive open sound. Nice full tone and quick action make it fun to noodle around on. All of 5 positions on the switch deliver a noticably distinctive difference and the first four from right to left sound incredible, but hard left tends to sound sort of muddy, even with the Tone knob on 10. Effects are sort of subtle but are distinguishable, and the distortion is so-so; its pretty buzzy...good for a Beatles' "Revolution" sort of sound but not quite clean enough to be efficient. Chorus is pretty nice, and the reverb is sort of reminicent of Johnny Cash's "Get Rhythm" is it does have a pretty cool retro sound. I for one am not a fan of the tremolo effect. It just sounds like someone is at your amp fiddling with the volume knob up and down and doesnt make for really clean playing. Alright sustain but not really all that great, considering it has a bolt-on neck and everything.

The effects buttons are a clean touch, pretty easy to tap, and not easily triggered accidentally, which is good. However, it was hard to tell when they are up or down (they click down when the effect is triggered) and all seem to be set at different heights. I suppose one could just listen to the sound of the guitar to determine which ones are on but still. Very nice action (after the neck was adjusted down and lowest E string adjusted up a bit at the bridge) with nicely adjusted frets. Still buzzes a bit but gets a clean sound anyhow. I personally was annoyed at the position of the middle pickup. They way I play, I pick the strings right over the top of the middle pickup (which is the best sound anyways) and the pickup is set so high that I was CONSTANTLY tapping it with the pick. Even finger picking I was sliding off the top edge of the pickup with my thumb or bottom edge with picky or index. Hard to palm mute and play a that position. 9Volt battery that fits into the back is surely a pain, as if plugged into the effects output, amp or no amp, the effects are ON...probably drains like crazy if left plugged in. Probably good to just plug it into the bypass jack until the effects are needed or just unplug it altogether when its not being played.

I've got absolutely no idea how durable it is. Its heavy enough to FEEL durable, but light enough to like it's only worth the just-under-300 that it books for new. Stays in tune pretty well once you get it there . Good solid paint job (not a fan of the snow-looking metallic flake though). The top swoops backward quite a bit and is a bit large feeling on the back of the right arm but it feels sturdy enough. I personally would not play this guitar instead of my SG for any reason except for its nice clean un-effected sound. Any effects I'd put on it would be through a pedal, if at all. But that is JUST me. The middle pickup alone would be reason enough for me to not play it all if it didnt sound so good. It doesnt hardle show scratches at ALL so that's a plus. I give it a 5 just because I have no experience with it.

Havn't tried it. The Danelectro website is sort of confusing and has no real options. I couldn't even find the guitar on the website just trying to find out stuff about it. No other customer support has been attempted.

I'm not a HUGE fan of Danelectro. I like them all right (like I said, they have a good open sound), but I'm stuck to my SG and the occasional Les Paul. Danelectro to me just isn't versatile enough. This guitar is basically a retro-looking Stratocaster with some effects buttons. Everyone has a Strat, and any guitar player has played a Strat, and this guitar feels like a Strat. I love a Telecaster, but to my taste personally, Strats are just sort of generic and mildly versatile. Such is the case with this guitar. I tried a wide range of styles on it, and it doesn't get heavy very well as distortion makes it muddy and untoneful, but it does play nicely when fingerpicked, and plays Rockabilly (i.e Johnny Cash, Elvis) pretty well. Has a great surf-style sound, and sounds pretty good on a Peavey Bandit 112 amp. My Peavy Session 400 tube amp is more for its sound-era and it plays even better on tubes blues-style. Not a particularly wide-range guitar. Plays well on certain styles, but pretty much excludes heavier stuff or anything involving distortion.

You'd better not buy this guitar for the features. Crappy electronics, woods (triply pine hardwood)cheap fretwire, turns out in an unflexible instrument.Jack plate coming off.

Crappy and cheap sound, Korean Pick ups.Effects are nasty and extremely noisy.

You cannot intonate this guitar, as the adjustment rod is located beneath the screwplate that fixes thearm to the body. The tremolo arm is unusable, the switches get noisy as the get older.The effects are not worthy. The fretwire got away in two months of practicing.Now it is almost a fretless guitar. Mi acoustic sounds and plays way better.I coulsd never adjust this guitar.I should have saved and go for a secon hand Tele.This guitar is very heavy, uncomfortable.NEVER BUY DANELECTRO:THEY ARE A DIFFERENT COMPANY: PIRATS!!!!!

If it was made from tissue paper would last longer, but what for?

I could never contact Danelectro for a potentiometer of other effect I missused(Dan-echo,The only Danelectro gear that sounds beautiful, Very recommendable!)Any way i had to fix it myself.Try, contact Daelectro and see...

I regreted it, a total waste; PERIOD.

Lots of features, 3 PUs, chorus & echo effects not adjustable, dirtortion tremolo are adjustable, typical tone & vol. knobs, two output jacks for "stereo". Wammy bar. Maple neck, bolts on. Body is some kind of plywood, I think, with cheapo tuning machines. Made in indonesia. Sparkle burst finish is unique, cool or chessey looking, depends on your personal sense of taste or lack thereof. I'd have preferred jet black.

Tone is OK, but the frets are way too high and the thing couldn't stay in tune. Tune it right for one chord, and it sounds bad on another. G & B strings slip out of tune especially easily. ARGHH! Needs better quality control, or professional work. Effects are OK, but not studio quality. Sound could be a 8 or 9 with better strings, tuners, bridge, and professionally filed frets, but hey, why not just buy another guitar if it needs that much work?

Finish was fine. Retro look is not really a 60s style, if I remember correctly... and maybe I don't. Guitar was improperly strung when I got it. Frets were too high and had sharp edges. Tuners and bridge are crap. Effects buttons are noisey to switch on and cheap. Alignment and action were OK.

Body is heavy enough and the whole thing seems solid, but I would not gig w/o backup, and would leave this one home anyway. Buttons will not hold up, and there is a lot of stuff that could go wrong with this: tuning, effects battery going dead, etc.

Worthless bunch of loosers. Wouldn't answer multiple emails, and they stopped making these guitars, thank God.

Been playing since early 70's, various guitars and styles, progressive rock, folk, metal. At best this Danelectro is merely OK, if you like this kind of cheesey cheapo pretends-it's-vintage-but-is-actually-a-poor-quality-import "collector's item." Not good for gigs or recording. Hang it on a wall just so you can say you have a Danelectro. I'm dumping it ASAP. Very disappointing!

Features out the wazoo !! 3 pickups, 5 way selector, tone volume, echo, chorus, tremolo, echo, whammy bar, 2 outputs. Its a heavy, thick body made in Korea, I think, out of some mystery wood ?? looks like a maple/rosewood neck. Chrome stuff everywhere.

Sound? Any sound, any style you want, basically. Great for Rock, blues, metal, it even might manage do punk (I'll never know). The effects are a little goofy, though. The chorus and echo are not adjutable, but they are set well and sound great. Distortion is like an intense fuzz box, ala Hendrix. Touchy, but very usable sometimes. Even without effects, it sounds unbelivably good. I'm still finding new tones coming out of it. Rather amazing!

GORGEOUS cool sparkle burst finish. WOW. Very 60's. Frets seem set kinds high, though. You may want to file 'em down. Bridge tuning mechanisms are a little confusing. the whammy bar is stiff, but works OK.

Solid built, and heavy. Finish seems very tough and thick. The buttons for effects are not the greatest, kinda cheapo, might not last too long, but no problems so far. Looks dependable enough to gig w/o a backup, except the 9 volt battery might die at the wrong time.

Looks like they stopped making them. Sent two emails, and got no answer. Seems like a company managed by a bunch of twits, but no real horror stories to report.

This is a great guitar for an even greater price. They could have spruced up the effects a bit more, or left them off, instead of doing it sort of half-assed. But, who's complaining? It's a super value!! I don't know how Dano pulled it off, though maybe that's why they stopped makin' them: they couldn't keep loosing money on them. My guess is that these babies will become collector's items someday and be worth lotza $$$. Buy a few now and put them away for your kid's college tuition. this investment advice is guarenteed to be worth every cent you paid for it ;)

2000 i think was the year it was made ..4 built in effects..21 frets rosewood fingerboard maple neck...3 pick ups...plywood body strat like..mine is black and white very good looking guitar...heavy guitar solid like a ROCK! i want to say this dano stays in tune like a dream i put it in my case take it out a few days later the sucker is still in TUNE!same if i leave it on a stand over night...Great tuners..

i play rock and rock .. some country sorta punk...all kinds of ideas i come up with with this guitar..it can sound alot of diffrent ways retro or heavy rock n roll i play solo just vocals and a electric guitar through and amp..perfect sound configerations...lots of room to invent..i think the frets need to be a little less rough ..but that mite be because im used to strats...but over all i love this dano..its not like the light fluffy little u1 and u2....i play through a pa and marshall amp and fender reverb amp with dod hard rock distortion and sometimes super american metal..i like the effects the guitar came with but i like to get really heavy sometimes and you need a pedal..this guitar is not a toy its a realle giging guitar its tough and ROCKS OUT>>>i also recorded a demo with it and it sounds really good....

perfect set up bought from a music store ...the guitar is great pretty cool looking..retro look kinda late 60s early 70s look...its a heavy guitar not light like a strat or u2 dano...

yes is a giging guitar tough as a boulder strong loud cool and rockin..strap buttons are solid...stays in tune....i always bring a back up..but would depend on this guitar !!! i love it!!fun guitar!!

ive been playing guitar for about 15 years...have a few larrivee acoustics ...and an american strat....i would buy this guitar again but they are hard to find out of production..what i love about this guitar is it sounds great and i can gig with it ...its an all around great guitar and will buy another one if it comes my way...

Features are well covered in other reviews - 3 singlecoils...Pickups are a little too hot for my tastes --- they are loud and distorted --I have to turn the gain (use a musicman 212hd) way down compared to the settings I use for my fender guitars.

I added two more springs to the tremelo bar setup -- made it much more useable -- locking tuners are a big help also. I dont use the effects, I prefer my amp distortion and tremelo, and I have an analog tape echo pedal for delay.

I'm still trying to find a good sound with it. It helped to lower the pickups -- they were set high and were way too hot. I bought it used however, so this may have been set by the previous owner. As mentioned by others, the out-of phase pickups seem preferable for lead... I play surf and rockabilly/roots rock.. Right now I'm just using it for a backup when I break a string, but it's more than adequate for that.

I miss the metal nut sound from the 56-U2 model tho.

Bought it used, so hard to tell... I mentioned the pickup thing above

Reliable so far...a big improvement over the '56-U2 which caused nothing but problems in this area. Solid, seems durable.

Playing for 13 yrs... also use american strat and Tele.. Musicman and Laney tube amps. Great so far!!!