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!!!

2002 model has good features fuz tremelo slapecho chorus - but needs older lead/acid batteries or effects don't work right (too much power) I use older worn out batteries from other toys and they work fine. Looks good except for sparkles (too corny). Neck and frets are better than most Gibsons and Fenders at any price. Tuners dont hold crap. BIG BAD Notation: ALWAYS tuning this thing..it won't hold tune for anything. Will most likely build a new body or put a solid tailpiece and tuners on it to see if that inproves it. Shame that it won't hold tune because it has so much potential! I can't even finish one song without stoping it is so badly out of tune. I want my money back or a different guitar and can't play it in public because of this which is what I bought it for with my limited funds.

Like I said its sound sucks cause out of tune all time. If it held tune the sound would be awsom! The pickups can be set to multiple settings and on a peavy amp, it sounds better then my long lost 70's SG with Humbuckers. It can also sound just like a Fender with lipsticks and even a P90's sound. I will try to salvage it with new tuners ($50) + new bridge (20) and might even cut a new body to eliminate the plywood one it is on (also suspect of tuning issues. Please note that the truss bar is only accessable after you unscrew the neck and take it apart (OUCH!)

things were set up right and proper, but lets face it, if it won't hold tune it aint worth the time!

Won't hold tune! This is either because of cheap tuners or cheap vibrato. Take your pick

Not even tried to deal with them. Just want to get rid of it on some dumb sucker.

give me my money back I was robbed! Anyone want to buy some firewood cheap? Spent what little I had on this thing, now can't afford a real one.

Four on board effects - distortion, chorus, trem and echo. 22 frets and fulcrum tremolo. Three single coils. Two outputs - one clean and one for effects. Can play the guitar into two amps at the same time with interesting results. Ply body, maple neck and rosewood board. Non locking tuners. Mine is a tobacco burst colour with speckled finish.

The guitar sounds great once you get used to the settings. All the usual sounds you would expect from a three single coil instrument - strat like sounds are all there. The pick ups are actually very good - as good if not better than many Strats I have played. The on board effects are good particularly the echo and chorus. Distortion is very loud but with a bit of fiddling about you can come up with a usable sound. Dont really use the tremolo arm much and tuning stability is fairlyy good. Surprisingly the dano also sounds good with overdrive amp settings.

Set up was not too bad intonation ok but action too high. Easily adjusted and now plays great. I find the fretboard exceptionally well finished and very playable. Had a problem in the first week with the bridge pick up cutting out. Took it back to the shop and it turned out to be a poor solder joint which they fixed. I adjusted the pickup heights to give me the front to back balance I wanted.

itTuners seem ok. Pickupsbis ai but b

Very heavy guitar but certainly feels pretty solid. I would expect it to last well. Good paint finish. Strap buttons are ok. Will play it live without hesitation.

No experience of this service

Been playing 30 years. Played Strats, Ibanez, OLP, Washburn, Ovation, Epiphone guitars, Danelectro (U2) etc. I really like this guitar because it is easy and fun to play plus you can dial up some great sounds. The guitar genuinely sounds a whole lot better than it should for this money. I bought the guitar as it was on special offer. Tried it out for 10 minutes and liked it straight away. This is probably the best "value for money" guitar purchase I have ever made. I record a lot of music and the overall tones and sound from this guitar is fabulous.

It was made in korea. It has 21 fret and volume tone and 2 that control the 4 effects(that suck). Don't buy it for the effects. I think it has a mahogany body with rosewood fretboard. The body style is very weird.

I play pretty much anything. All the way from James Taylor to Creed to Metallica. I use a Vox Pathfinder 15. The sound isn't that great. I would rather have a fuller sound, but it sounds alright for the money. I use mainly the middle pickup which too me sounds the best. The effects i think are a waste of time. I expected the distortion to be something heavy and thick. I figured out it was some funky sh*t.

It is a well-built guitar. The finish is cool and it stays together well. The only thing i have against it is that the input sucks and it wasn't put together well. The wammy bar is useless. I am always having to tune my guitar over and over.

It seems like this guitar will last a long time. The finish is still perfect. I would use a back up with this guitar(cus ya never know). It is pretty dependable but i wouldn't put my life behind it. I have a band and i have played at a few different places so i will withstand. But i am going to buy another guitar(ESP LTD ES-100)

I dunno i heard they suck bad.

I have been playing over a year. I shouldn't have bought it on the net though. IF it were stolen i would buy something else deffinetely. I love really nohting about. I hate the input and wiring. I like the neck the most though. I didn't really compare it to other guitars i just wanted one and a cheap one at that. I just wish i would have bout and LTD ES-100 which is what i am about to buy.

It was made it Korea. It has 22 frets and 3 pickups. My controls include volume, tone and two that control the 4 effects.

I'm learning guitar, and this is my first full size. I tend to play songs classified as "oldies". John Lennon, Mammas and the Pappas, that stuff. The effects are great. They all work perfectly with the music.

I don't know what amp I'm using. I know it's orange and old. Dad picked it up at a garage sale.

I have no complaint with the noise. The effects include Distort, Chorus, Echo(?), and something else. It's a huge variety and I love it.

No complaints in this department.

The guitar was in perfect condition when I got it. It even came with the 9 volt needed for the effects. It was pre-strung and the pickups didn't (and still haven't) needed any adjustment.

I don't thing there can be any flaws with this guitar. I accedently banged it against a wall taking it into the basement where the amp is, and there is now a dent in the wall, but no even a scratch on the guitar. This thing was built to last!

I don't suggest using this with live playing, because it's rather heavy. I tend to play while sitting down. But, I'm sure it would withstand it.

And, as I said before, this thing was built to last. It takes me about 10 minutes to get the strap off, so the strap tends to stay ON.

The guitar is very dependable. I've only had to change the battery once in the over a year that I've had it.

I don't know weather or not to use a backup. I don't play in a band, and I really don't plan on it. I play by myself for the fun of it.

The one time I had a problem with it, we hadn't sent in the warrenty card. I called the company and told them the problem. I didn't even have to use technical terms. They suggested what they thought the problem would be. They were really helpful and friendly.

I'm not sure how long the warranty is, but I believe it's about a year.

If you don't count banging on the strings of Dad's guitar when I was three, I've been playing for a little under a year. I also own an Epiphone classical I got as a Christmas present.

If it were stolen or lost, I think I'd wait awhile before purchasing it again, just to see if it turned up really.

I love it because it's really fun to play around with the effects and the colour is really groovy. I don't really like the weight, though.

I can't really compaire it to other electrics, but the reason I chose this paticular guitar was the colours and the fact the price was one I'd be able to pay off before I die.

I really think this is a good starter guitar because of the fact it's in a good price range and the guitar can work well with any level. Plus the effects are fun to play around with. If you put on the distort effect and play Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, it sounds just like it should.

cheap body but cool effects, nice over all tone

nice tones from neck and middle pickup. i verry rarely use the bridge pickup.it has a very deep sound played throuh my crate vintage 30 or my crate gfx15r.

very easy to ajust my action was a little high untill a slight ajustment at the saddles. the pickups are in just about the right spot

the only dependable part of this guitar is the strap buttons. ive had mine 9 months and have already had to have the cheap circit board replaced, and now its going bad again. also the middle pickup quit working last week.

danelectro service sucks just as much as guitar centers does. i had to show up with 700 dollars worth of equipment and ask for my money back before they did any thing to fix my dano, thats when it was only 4 months old and the circut board went out.

ive been playing for 12 years ive got 2 crate amps as i mentioned before. i also own a fender telecaster. i bought the danelctro for 2 reasons,1 i like the sound of them,2 i wantd a cheap guitar to put in my tractor trailer so i could leave the fender at home. i really am not satis fied with my danelectro or the warraty. next time i want a cheap axe i'll get a squire or epiphone thak you.

Features already listed by everyone else. Useless whammy bar, 4 effects, Mosrite-shape, s/s/s 5 way, string thru body. Tone, volume and tremelo speed knobs. Foreign made.

I want to mention that I don't own this guitar anymore. I traded it last week. A)it was too heavy 2)I bought a multieffects pedal (Zoom 505II) and the effects on the guitar seemed silly 3) I saw another Danelectro (Hodad) at the store that I liked a lot better. The Innuendo is NOT a bad guitar. It's chock full of features and is great to learn on but after a while you will want something lighter, nicer-looking and less toy-like. Buy it for the person who is not sure if they'll be playing forever. Did well as a trade. I got my money's worth and when I went back to the store today it was long gone. It made someone happy.

It suited my music style just fine, which is muddy indie mope rock.
The only noisy setting is the distortion. Stay away from it.
Goes from rich and full to thin and bright..real nice.
At the time I was using no other effects and running it to an Epiphone practice amp.

Bottom line:variety? YES.

Black, non sparkly, flawless. Perfect action right out of the box. Though the frets buzz a bit if you're lazy.

Strap buttons solid and big. Heavy as 2 tons of bricks. Hardware seems fine. I'd say it was dependable, but like the person below said, make sure you have batteries! Finish is thick.

Shady. Sometimes you hear back from them, and sometimes not. And when you do, it seems like all the response you get is some nutjob going to the website, copying and pasting quotes from the site. Really. I asked a question about a knob's function and I recieved an email that said word for word what their website did. So, what customer service? Show it to me and I'll believe you. I also sent in my warranty and it came to me 2 weeks later with a stamp on it stating that they did not get the warranty card in time. In time for what???

I've been playing about six months. I have the aforementioned amp and effects pedal. I wish I hadn't bought it online. Always try before you buy. Obviously I don't have it anymore, so if it had been stolen I would have ended up getting something different. Only because it was so heavy and I just wanted a more straight-forward basic guitar.
I chose it because of the effects and the price. Great buy.

Supposedly a "plywood" body. 21 frets, made in Korea. S/S/S 5-way selector. Why go over the features again?

I play through an Epiphone Studio 10 amp. No feedback, no buzzing, gives lots of sounds thanks to 5-way selector and 4 effects. Chorus is gorgeous, tremelo and echo have different speeds and you can alter the tone of the distortion (but use the distortion wisely, don't combine with your amp's gain or boost, or it makes an ungodly screeching). Suits my music style just fine, I play lo-fi indie stuff, riotgrrl, grunge, punk, and for fun I even tried out a Metallica song last night, and it sounded great. Variety? F**k yes!

Needed no setup. Only a little tuning. Action great. Finish, supersmooth paint, that pickguard HAS to go: ugly holographic mother of pearl. Everything was perfect. Nothing loose or poorly made.

Strap buttons-big. My strap isn't coming off without pliers. Hardware-no complaints. Finish-haven't scratched it yet and I don't even have a gig bag or a stand. Dependable...well just make sure if you're using those effects that you have a stash of 9volt batteries. I would most definitely gig without a backup. This thing is so solid (and heavy) that if you're into breaking your instruments after shows, smashing everything up, well better find something else, this guitar isn't going to break. It might break other things, though.

I don't know. No problems yet.

If it were stolen or lost, I'd buy it again. I've been playing acoustic for 4 months, and I got this guitar last week. Love everything but the fact that the effects use batteries, but what the hell, at this price where else are you going to get 4 effects AND a guitar? I bought it online without trying it out. Before that I tried Squier Telies and Strats, and a Yamaha Pacifica. Please, if you're getting your first guitar, don't get one of those knockoffs. The features, durability and price of this guitar are unbelievable. Plus Danelectro just makes cool stuff anyway.

I just bought what I believe is a 2001 Danelectro-Innuendo. It has all of the effects (tremolo, echo, chorus and distortion). I must agree with the general consensus that the distortion is very lack-luster, but the tremolo is great. it has 3 single coil pick-ups, which sound totally great. The 5 way switch is great, and let's you really get the sound you want, including some very hollow tones (if you're in to that). I was told that the pick-up configuration sucked, but THIS IS NOT TRUE. This guitar rocks for the money and then some. It has active electronics for the effects, but you can bypass this by using the 'bypass' output. The body feels very solid, unlike that of other Danelectros I've played. It feels more stable than the 'Hodad'. I'm not sure what it is made of, but would imagine stacked ply. It has a rosewood fretboard. I have the 'tobacco burst' finish. The body is unmistakebly very '60s and is modeled after the Mosrite guitars the Ventures used. This is not a Strat body. It has a 'string-thru' body, with fulcrum-style tremolo. The tuners feel very stable, I don't know who makes them though. 22 frets/ medium-width neck.

I play surf and garage music, and this guitar is it. I also play a Fender USA Strat. Amazingly enough, this guitar is comparable and at about 1/8 of the cost....you can't beat that. I send the guitar through a Fender Twin for gigs or my Peavey 'Revolution' at home. I use lots of tremolo, fuzz and slap-back/ echo in addition to reverb. The guitar has super low-action and can go anywhere from, a super hollow or 'tinny' sound to a very rich, dare I say pretty tone. I loosened the tremolo springs, because they come very tight....that's the only adjustment I've made.
The ONLY dislike I have is the pre-mentioned BAD distortion. I can not say enough good things about this guitar, although I bypass the effects. I would be just as happy without them, as I use stomp boxes. I will also say that it would be handy if the truss-rod was more accessible, but I've had no use for tweaking it yet.

The guitar was ready to play out of the box. It has staggered pick-ups, very low-action, well a couple of buzzes, but a 'minor' adjustment to the string saddle is all it took. The effects switches are kinda noisey when you're switching between them.
The saddles are nice, the tuners are great,it stays in tune.

The guitar seems very solid, time will tell. It seems built to last. The finish is nice and sparkly and well done/ authentic. Strap buttons are bigger than usual, but I think that's a good thing (it won't fall off as easily). I would not hesitate to use this with out a back-up.

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I've been playing for about 10 years now. I would replace it if stole,in a heart drop. I love the 'retro' '60s look and sound. Consider buying this before you spend a bundle.

Hardware is nice and solid. Body is solid laminated whatever. Neck woods are fine, and not too thick. Must remove neck for truss adjust. How many guitars have on board effects? 10 due to features. S-S-S five way select.

Real nice, smooth, mellow. I'll never change the pick-ups. I had a lot of trouble with static at first. Everytime I touched the pick guard with my fingers it would produce a lot of static. I wrote to Danelectro, and they responded quickly, with option for return. I called a couple of shops locally, and they recommended changing battery, locations, etc. The static seems to be caused by myself mostly, and perhaps my body chemistry just reacts in an unfavorable way with the pick guard material. Don't have this problem with other guitars, but changing location reduced the static a lot, and it is very minimal now. It is strange, but negligable, and I'll continue to work on it. I talked to a tech, and he didn't think shielding was an issue, as much as my chemistry was. I'll repost if I have a definite fix. One other person mentioned this problem, but it doesn't distract from the functionality much. It did at first though.

Effects. They all sound fine. The distortion really took a while for me to dial in. The tone selectors and pick-up selection is tricky, then you need to have the volume off - push the button on, and slowly ramp up the volume to taste. Kind of a hassle, and no directions were supplied. I might use it with a smoky amp for a fuzz effect, but I'm way more into overdrive type of sounds. The other effects are easy, and sound great - very cool deal.

Plays out of the box. Action is a bit high, intonation is fine, tuners are fine. No flaws at all to finish or fit. I got the black one.

Built very solidly. I recommend hardshell because it's heavy. It will last longer than I will.

How can I give a 9? They didn't call right back one day. Danelectro is by far the best customer support company I know of.

For $150.00, black with pearl pick guard, dreamy sounding staggered pole pick-ups, good hardware, graphite nut, great finish, good neck, killer effects, did I mention dreamy sound? You don't get much more for a hundred and fifty than this folks, and great support too.

i think that mine is a 2000 model 22 frets solid body (some people say ply wood some say solid wood i think it might be solid wood as it is quite a bit lighter than my strat copy)3 single coil pickups that kick @$* maple neck with a rosewood frettboard the tuners are awsome realy smooth and the nut doesnt pinch the strings at all i didnt get a case or anything with this guitar but i still got a great deal

i play a little of everything (except country!) punk/ska mostly but also allot of older stuf like zeplin,hendrix,eagles(joe walsh) etc.
i play through a crate amp i got used and it sounds great although the distortion sux it is LOUD AS HELL!!! and even if you get past that it sounds awful! but the chorus sounds as good as any pedal ive played and the echo is great the trem is the best of all and with the speed control at your fingertips the sky is the limit man!

this guitar plays like it was built by God himself (o.k. maybe not quite that well but you get the picture)ive played les pauls and many strats and the action on this guitar was almost as good as any of them
the finish is soooo cool i got the blue silver sparkle thing and it is pretty! and the whole guitar is fit together realy tight nothing is loose this guitar looks like it will last forever i think that i might take it to a shop and have it set up though as there is some buzzing not allot but in a couple of places and i heard that other people have had this same problem and fixed it this way but this is the only problem

this guitar seems that it will live longer than i will the finish is exelent i have bonked it twice pretty hard (by accident) and you cant even see a scratch not even a little one the strap buttons are excelent (i dont know what everyone else is talking about!) this guitar seems reliable enough ive only had it a couple of months but it stays in tune better than any of my other guitars i probably would use this guitar in a pinch without a backup (i wouldnt recomend playing live without a backup for any guitar!)

i have been playing for about 8 years i have an epiphone pr200 acoustic an early 60's era fender 12 string a handmade clasical acoustic that i bought in mexico an old tanara acoustic and an empro hornet electric (this i think is just a strat copy e-mail me if you know anything about this guitar)this giutar kicks ass for and 200 dollars is probably the best deal ive ever gotten on a guitar (except maybe my fneder 12 string which was free!)if it was stolen id kill someone but would definetly by a new one i will say do not by one mail order because when i went to the store they had two that were supposed to be the same color and they looked totaly different the one i bought was a realy pretty placid blue to silver and it was feather'd alot better the other one was allmost black to silver and wasnt feather'd very well at all it looked like it had a blackish blueish grey stripe around a silver center they also played very different (the one i didnt buy buzzed really bad and sounded crappy!)
ive also read all kinds of reviews good and bad about this guitar so i think that the overall quality might vary from one guitar to another but every review also says that it is still a good deal so go to the store and play one if you find one that looks good and plays nice buy it!!! this is the coolest guitar ive ever played

2001, Korean, 22 frets, Laminated 8 or 9 ply body (woods unknown), 1 vol, 1 tone, 2 effects knobs, 3 single coil passive pickups, 4 effects onboard!, reverse strat style body, old strat style tremelo bridge, Gotoh tuners, 25" scale length neck.

Sounds faboulous, especially considering the price of this guitar! The pickups are jangly in the 1, 3, & 5 positions, and absolutely gorgeous in the 2 & 4 positions. I don't know how they did it. The tone of this axe smoked every Mexican strat and most of the American strats at every music store I visited. Maybe I just got lucky? The sustain is very good, but falls just slightly short (but just slightly) of my best guitars at home. But the tone of this baby makes up for it. You get a great pu selection of punchy, sweet, mellow, rude and balanced. It sounds as good as the best of any of the guitars I have ever owned. Again, at this price, how do they do it?
I don't dislike anything about the sound of this guitar, and I especially love the price. Oh yeah, the effects. You get dist, chorus, tremelo, and delay. Pretty cool, and all sound great except for the dist. The drawback is that the chorus and delay have no control. You only get the one setting. The dist and tremelo have settings, but you have to really work the dist to get a half-assed sound. The tremelo is probably the best effect. You get total control over the speed. But all in all, the effects are cool because they give you a 60's analog vibe, that sound retro. The best thing about the sound of this guitar is that it just sounds good effects or no effects.

Very good in this every category. This guitar was built with care. I hate to say it, but the fit is as good as any Strat I ever saw. Every thing is tight and well fitting.

It's solid as a rock, just like a Strat.

No idea.

I have been playing for 25 years, and have never gotten such a good deal on a guitar. And I have had quite a few guitars. The quality of this this guitar is incredible at this price. Yeah, it's still just a plywood instument, but that doesn't keep it from ringing like a bell and sounding like God. I can play this beast all night and not get tired of it. Dano outdid itself on this model. It is easily as good sounding and well put together as many guitars priced at 4 times the cost.

Probably made in 2000. Korean? sure. why not. 22 frets. mosrite ventures styled body. three single coils. with built in 9-volt powered effects. distortion, tremolo, echo, and chorus. unsure of the wood used, but that hardly matters on a 150 dollar guitar like this. i have the blue/silver sparkle burst. tuners are upgraded from the other danno tuners. and it sports a fulcrum tremolo. mine came with amp in a bag gig bag. and a pedal tuner. quite a deal. no?

i play surf, punk, rock, noise. i really don't use the effects on the guitar, except the tremolo. i have tons of other effects units i can play with. and i rock it out through a fender reverb unit run into an ampeg v4. it isnt as noisy as i thought it would be. the only interferance it gets is the ceiling fan and computer. like my other guitars. the tone knob works well in conjunction with my distortion pedals for a really hollow sound. it can do just about what a basic strat can. with onboard effects to boot. i think its a bit more hollow than my tex mex strat.

set up wasn't bad. but, when i purchase a guitar from a major chain, i take them to get set up anyway. i don't trust major chain stores. got it back, lovely. nice low action. the pickups came back in a better position, sounded a bit thicker and louder. good stuff. finish is the blue/silver sparkle. cheap danno finish. i love it to death. people can whine all they want about the finish being a gimmick. the guitar does come in plain black you know. the set up fixed anything that could have been wrong with this guitar. it plays great.

i'm rather sure this guitar could withstand quite a few live performances with me. i'm afraid to use the tremolo because i hate fulcrum style trems. strap buttons are kind of a problem. but i fixed that with wood shavings, superglue. i use different guitars live, so... i always have two at a show. but i suppose, if in a pinch. i would use it without a backup.

i've been playing for... almost four years. i own a '68 mosrite celebrity. a 98 fender tex-mex strat. 99 ibanez rg-570 (yuck). takamine accoustic/electric, 2000 canary yellow/silver flake brownsville impala, danno dc-3, ampeg v4 tube head, '63 fender reissue reverb unit, boss dd-5 delay, danno dan echo, boss distortion, rat distortion, big muff, EH deluxe memory man, EH tube zipper, danno daddy-o overdrive, danno fab tone distortion, EH small stone phase shifter, vox wah, moog/realistic mg-1 synth.
this guitar is nice, i wish i could have been able to find a danno hodad with vibrato, it would have been better to me with the bigsby/gretsch style vibrato. more than that i wish i could actually afford an original mosrite ventures model over the hodad. but i dont have 2000 laying around. and the cheaper japanese copies are 7/8ths size, and look really funny on me. so overall i say this guitar is alright. not what i wished i could have bought, but for 150 dollars. i am not going to complain.

It's not a Strat type body,It's shape is that of a Mosrite!!!!!!!

This Dano is perhaps the most usable guitar I have ever owned, at $225. it seems a steal! Everyone who has read any of these reviews knows what it is made of. My Innuendo is nearly Flawless! The active electronics sound very quiet, I will record with this guitar. The pickups sound actually better than some strats that I have owned. I will not change them. The Dano Battery's actually sound better. The standard Duracell etc. last just as long but seem to have a harsh edge, I almost sold the guitar, but as a last resort I tried the Dano Bats. Sound funny to me I always felt a Battery is a battery, not so with this Danoblaster. Tuners are great stays in tune, don't use them trem, it feels real stiff. My particular Dano is very resonant. The solid body I think enhances the resonance. This guitar is heavy. I weighs about 2lbs more than my Tele. But what the hey!

The sound is great, There are sounds that I can not get with any of my other guitars. It sound great with a compressor, it really enhances the marbly sound, almost tele like. It sounds just as good if not more gutsy in passive mode, I really like the chop that you can get, almost jazzy sounds. I am current using this with a vox, and a crate as well as going direct through a RP100. I expect a lot from my guitars, playing as much as I do! This one is an fantastic, main or back up guitar for Oldies, blues, some retro contemporary sounds!

This guitar needed only a slight tweek on the truss rod. I wish they ahd put the access to it up by the tuners as, you have to remobe the neck. My suggestion is go a little at a time a quater turn in often enough to put the guitar in great playing shape.But very careful when removing the neck my neck joint is very tight, thought I might chip the paint ir break something, nope, this finish seems really tough! This guitars fit and finish is better than the 335 that I recently sold. The intonation was very close. Did need a tweek with a tuner the "D" was out a tad.

I have been playing it regularly, it's great. I bought it as a back up to my aging tele. I often play this instead. Can't put it down. The strap buttons on this we great as they were larger than most, don't need locks.

I e-mailed Danelectro, and recieved a reply one hour later, concerning the reverb, it squeels they are sending me a new pc board wow!

If this guitar was stolen, I would replace it! It's a keeper! Hey If you haven't tried it out or are driven by peer pressure you could wait 35 years to grow out of it as I did, or go and be your own person and buy something just because you like it! Danelectro is giving the little guy something for his or her money. This guitar is awesome!

This is a 2000 model, made in Korea. It has at least 3 frets and
no more than several hundred. I'm guessing 22. There are four knobs,
a pickup selector switch, and four buttons for effects.
It has two outputs, one with effects and one without. The woods are
cheap, plywoods. I think that the fretboard is mahogany but I'm not sure. It has a vibrato bar and a strat-like body.

This guitar is very fun, especially for the effects. It has
tremolo, chorus, distortion, and echo built-in. It is a bit
noisy. This is not a guitar for a professional musician. It's
a great toy however.

There are small cosmetic defects throughout the guitar.

This guitar is not made from premium components but you
get what you pay for. I broke the volume knob off in
my hand.

Danelectro sent me two free knobs in the mail. I had to assemble
and solder the new one on myself. (No biggie.)

I've been playing 20 years. This guitar is a rock monster.
But don't hit it too hard and keep some batteries
handy.

I just want to say that it apparently ISN'T plywood. Alright, here is my arguement: WHY don't they offer sunburst colors on cheap brands, such as rouge? Because they are made of plywood. It would be obvious if you put a flame/sunburst color on it, and would look terrorable. Innuendo offers a blue and black sunburst, and the baritone and 12-string models offer a beautiful flame red top or red sunburst. They AREN'T plywood.

Actaually, there is a way to change the gain on the distortion. Just lower the volume of the guitar while turning up the ampvolume.
Atleast it worked for me...

Blue Sparkle finish which isn't that bad, rosewood laminated on
maple neck which is wide and chunky. 3 single coils, 5way p/u selector. Fulcrum trem which is usable and the main reason for getting this guitar is the 4 built in effects. Distortion, chorus, tremolo, and echo. Has 9 volt battery compartment in the back. 2 output jacks one wet and one dry(great for splitting signal to 2 amps.) Tuners are alright and the guitar keeps in tune as long as you don't go nuts with the whammy bar.

I play everything blues, rock ,jazz, fusion, rockabilly, experimental,
funk, and tons of Frank Zappa. I play it with my Carvin X100 tube amp with reverb thru way too many effects to list here. I also use a Fender vibro champ and a Pignose(which the guitar sounds the best thru.)I think unamped it sounds good with nice resonance. Amped it sounds great for a $189 guitar. The distortion has a great cheesey sound and thick fuzz sound just play with the knob and find out. Chorus is nice and thick but only 1 speed, tremolo is very good and you can adjust the speed(my favorite effect on the guitar) and the echo is perfect for cheesy rockabilly sounds and it adds a ring modulation type sound when combined with the distortion. Overall I love this guitar.

Finish is nice, neck is a little sticky at first until you work it in. I got it off the showroom floor and its action was perfect for a cheap guitar. The strings were not 4 inches off the fretboard like most junk guitars, the bridge has adjustable saddles and the overall feel of the guitar is very nice.

I bought this guitar as a travel guitar to take with me on trips along with my pignose. I think it will not break if dropped many times and I think it is made rather well for 189$ I would gig with it as a backup and as a guitar for certain songs and abuse. I have the feeling I can abuse this guitar big time and won't have to worry about it being destroyed.

Have not dealt with them yet. I have heard some good things about them.

I got this baby for trips and playing outdoors and in any situation where I wouldn't want to bring my more delicate guitars. With a pignose it sounds fantastic and I have been playing it everywhere. Having the effects was key for me because I didn't want to haul my pedals with me and also the effects sound cool and sometimes cheesey which I like for certain stuff. I also know that it could be my kids 1st guitar because this thing will last forever. All they need to do is add an amp case and you have the perfect travel/beginner guitar.
Overall I love this guitar for its features, price and vibe, given its not as good as my Tele or Hamer SP, but for what I need it for its great.

I bought this Danelectro new in the Fall of 2000. The gloss black body is some type of wood ply or composite, shaped like a modified Strat, in a nice '60s design. Maple neck (non adjustable with satin finish), rosewood fingerboard, graphite nut, 3 single coils, 5 way switch/1 tone/1 volume (low budget but ok), trem. bridge (trem. is not really useful/stable), reasonable tuners. 4 built-in effects, distortion, chorus, tremolo, and echo (you have some control over the distortion and tremolo speed). The effects use a 9v battery, and you have an option to bypass using one plug over the other.

After a while I had the guitar set up by my luthier here in town, he had to reset the pickup heights, action, and a slight amount on the intonation (all minor work for pretty low cost). This guitar has some of the classic sound of a single coil Strat, but not completely the same. Average noise levels are coming from the single coils. The guitar has a surprisingly good bass response, I can actually feel it resonate when not plugged in (surprising to me at least). The effects are not as cheesy as they might sound, but I do admit the gain on the distortion is too much for me. I wish there was a way to tweak the thing to control the gain, but just the same some kid out there is going to find this most appealing (or ear splitting). Without the effects (bypass) the guitar is a nice knock off of a basic Strat. I'm not much of an electric player, but I wanted something with the Strat sound and reasonable playability. Works for me...

Like I said above I had the guitar go through a minor setup. I did find out from my luthier that the fret board was not completely 'flat' in the sense that a straight edge would 'see-saw' over some of the frets close to the 12th fret (but for $200 what do you expect - perfection). Actually I'd say the guitar was in pretty good shape coming out of the factory/store. It was worth the $30 to have a pro go through the finer aspect for me. I know that some people may be annoyed with the placement of the switch and trying to strum without hitting it. Try it first, then decide for yourself.

The guitar seems to be solid enough. I'm sure the thing would hold up fairly well in most conditions. The switch may not stand up to heavy use, but for me it's ok.

The guitar came with no instructions about the effects or the use of the knobs (although you could figure out quickly), but I emailed the folks at Danelectro. They promptly emailed back with the layout of the guitar and features. I appreciate that.

I'm not a big rocker, but this guitar does have a lot to offer. Here is my final take on the Innuendo:
I played a quite a few of the lower end guitars including the Mexican Strats, other Danelectros and most everything out there in the lower range. I chose this guitar before I knew about the award it had received (Editor's Choice). I chose it for a three reasons-a really nice feel to the neck (far superior to the other guitars I played), the similarity to a Strat (which I preferred), and finally, I knew that this guitar might one day be one I could give to my son or daughter if they decide to play. I actually agree with the person who thinks these might be collector items some day (maybe for nostalgic reasons only). The guitar is not a first class axe in the sense of a real Strat, but I really don't think you can come closer in this price range plus have the option of the built in effects. I would buy one again for my kids or myself. If you can find them down in the $150 to $180 range then that's great. If you want a decent low budget Strat try out this guitar.

One of the new Danelectro strat models with the 4 different effects built in. I first saw these danelectros last year and I thought what odd looking guitars this company makes. They looked like something from the 60's but judging from the reviews in here I was convinced to buy one.....I always had a tendency to buy guitars without playing them for some reason. I had a plywood body guitar before and it was super loud so I had no fears straying away from a solid body guitar. This guitar is made in Korea....hummm the thought just struck me if fender made a guitar like this the could charge whatever they wanted but mine was at an almost giveaway price of 175 dollars and this included no shipping charges and no tax. Hell, I just bought a harmonica a few weeks ago that cost 150 dollars so I did not flinch one bit giving the credit card number out!he he! Mine is the blue sparkle color. The sparkles look gimicky, but I suppose I will get used to it. Some say the buttons and pick up selector get in the way while playing, yes I suppose if you strum like Pete Townsend but for most people I don't think the pick up selector position and the one knob thats also to close to the strings will be to much of a problem.

I was looking for more of a 60's sound, something different but similar to a fender strat which was my second choice. It has a chorus, tremelo, distortion and echo effect all built in. You say to gimicky? well yes I thought so to till I played it with the effects on and then you realize it is no gimmick but purely functional except for the distortion effect which has a very nasally sound but maybe its more of a 60's distortion sound which would explain its unusual tone. This guitar sounds great and I understand why it won an award from one of the magazines. You start to mix the different effects and yes there is some noise but nothing that bad...nothing out of the ordinary in my opinion. The pickups sound good and lively and I dont think I will ever have to replace them. If your looking for a 60's type of sound this is the guitar to buy.

This is an economy guitar but it's finish is very good. If you buy one I would not worry about any quality problem like you might on a squier or some other inexpensive guitar. The guitar is set up well I can find no flaws the way it was delivered.

I just play for myself and have been doing so for 15 years. If I was playing live with it sure I would bring a back up...you know the old boy scout moto...be prepared!

Dont know about that. Everthing works fine as delivered. There is a waranty maybe 6 months or a year I forget.

I had a noise accident at work that caused some hearing loss a few weeks ago the same time my guitar was delivered but my hearing is starting to come back now fortunatly so I hope I can play more music than I have been. I play this guitar and I think I'm strumming something very special and I cant beleive I bought this thing for 175 dollars. If you like the 60's guitar sound jump on this guitar but if your gig is heavy metal look elsewhere. I have reviewed 4 guitars and this is my most positive review I've given.

Set up perfectly right from the sales floor. I played about 20 other guitars before I bought mine, and I kept coming back to it. The neck is perfect and the effects are a bonus, plus it has stereo outs, which sells itself.

I like the tone far more than any of the $500+ guitars I played that day. You can go from snappy twang to mellow strumming very easily. I did drop the pickups a hair due some mushout when you really bang the strings. I did notice a distinct clicking sound at times when my pick hits the pick guard, but its negligble.

Action was great, finish is nice, i bought a black one cuz its a little more subdued than the glitter covered models...

I think you could pound the crap out of this guitar night after night and it would be none worse for wear. Its a little heavy, but again, its negligble.

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Been playing 13 years, I own a Yamaha 12 string, and a Yamaha electric. Love: sound, playability, look. Hate:nothing really. I compared it to several other guitars, including a PRS, Strat, SG and Les Paul. I only wish they threw in a gig bag.

ALREADY BEEN SAID

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PEOPLE BITCH ABOUT THE PLY BODY,,,,,THE HIGH PRICED {to die for gibson 335 ,,,,yea.right,,HAS A PLY TOP!!!!!!! always use a backup

PLAYING 33YRS/PLN ON GETTING ANOTHER ONE!!

The most unusual features are the four built-in effects: distortion, chorus, echo, and tremelo. After an email exchange with Danelectro, I determined that I own one with the second batch of PC boards, which has less of a volume boost with the distortion. You can control the distortion's tone and the tremolo speed. The chorus is fixed at medium settings and the echo is fixed at slapback.

The scale is 25", a 1/4" longer than a Les Paul and a 1/2" shorter than a Strat, if my facts are correct. The pickup configuration is the Start style 3 single coils with a 5-way selector. It also has a Strat style whammy bar. The nut is graphite and a hair narrower than a Strat, wider than other Danelectros. The tuning pegs are good quality. The fretboard is rosewood and fairly flat to my tastes, the neck not too thick or thin, and the frets are medium.

I have to give it high marks on features, especially given the price. The scale is 25", which I like

My present musical style range from country-influenced to jazz-influenced pop, with a healthy dose of blues rock. As a teenager I steeped myself in The Beatles, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, The Cars, Elvis Costello, The Ramones, and The Sex Pistols. I'm forty now and have been most impressed lately by Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind, the Graham Parsons tribute album (Return of the Grevious Angel?), and Frank Sinatra. I'm a songwriter who can't sing worth a damn, plays guitar well, and plays bass better than well (that's what people tell me).

I'm using the Innuendo with a Fender Princeton 65 and no effects that aren't in the guitar. The pickups do seem a little noisy to me, just a little, but they have a nice enough tone to put up with it. I like the pickups for rythmn playing very much; these are much better pickups than I've encountered on other budget guitars.

What is most surprising to me is how good this guitar sounds with all the effects turned off. It has wonderful clean rythmn sounds that I actually prefer to some expensive Strats I used to own. The sound is a little darker and more relaxed; to my ears, a Strat sounds tense, which I like for lead but not always for rythmn. You can get an excellent range of sounds too. The 2 and 4 positions on the pickup selector switch give you those honky out-of-phase sounds, and they're good ones. These aren't the best pickups for lead playing. They don't handle heavy picking as well as they could, but at this price you can't have everything.

Like other players, I find the distortion all but useless. Way too much gain for my style. I may try it in recording but I can't envision using it live. I have no complaints about the other effects. The presets Danelectro chose are very usable. The chorus sounds surprisingly good. I guess the tremelo could be a little deeper, but I use it and like it.

The factory setup was almost great. I lowered the pickups some because they were barking when I hit the lower strings with more than medium force. The whammy bar is too stiff; when I get around to changing the strings, I plan to take out one or two of the springs.

I haven't used this guitar at a gig yet and I don't know if I will. It is no refelection on it, though. I have a Rikter 335 copy that is my main guitar. The Innuendo seems perfectly capable of handling abuse, but I haven't tested it.

I emailed Danelectro about the distortion and they explained that the early PC boards had more gain than the later ones -- and offered to swap my board. I wound up swapping my guitar for a later one with the retailer (more on that in Overall Rating below). So I didn't actually do the transaction, and can't report how that went, but their offering to do it, with no prompting, certainly impressed me. They quickly answered any and all questions I sent them.

I've been playing for about 20 years total. I started when I was 10 and took the last 9 years off. This was my first electric guitar since I sold two Strats back in 1991; I bought it this fall. My amp is a Fender Princeton 65 and I own a Rikter 335 copy that is my main guitar. I also have a Danelectro Rumor bass, which is part of the Danoblaster line, like the Innuendo, and am very happy with it too.

I bought this guitar on the strength of the Guitar Player magazine review. They gave it an Editor's Pick Award and said something like "at this price, everyone should buy one". It plays great. I have pretty big hands but I always found a Strat a little too big. I can really wrap my hands around this neck without getting in my own way. If I built a dream solid body, I would use the exact same scale and body shape, but I would space the strings just a hair wider, probably the same nut width as a Strat.

This is actually the second Innuendo I've had. I liked the first one so much I decided they would probably become collector's items, so I bought a second one -- that I liked even better! I decided I couldn't afford to have two of them, since I had developed a hankering for some other gear, and decided to return the first one. If I had the free cash, I would buy a bunch of them and put them in storage. I think these babies will appreciate.

The first Innuendo had the earlier PC board, with the louder distortion, and less sustain. The second one has the later PC board, more sustain, and even better tone. It weighs more than the first one, so I assume the tone and sustain differences are just the luck of the draw in the wood that was used. The distortion in the later PC boards is unfortunately even less usable to my ears. It has less gain, but still too much, and the tone isn't as good.

My bottom line: this is a truly excellent rythmn guitar, a real sound machine, and damn good fun to play. With better pickups, it would probably be a killer lead guitar too. As is, it is a little wanting as a lead guitar, but still highly usable as one. At this price, you're getting an enormously good value.

Final note: I didn't play my Innuendo for about a month after I got my Rikter. I took it out the other day and was afraid I wouldn't like it so much by comparison. No such disappointment. I was just as impressed as when I took it out of the box.

This model of Danelectro has 4 build in effects (distortion, choruc,, tremolo and echo) and 3 retro pick-ups, and you can choose to use the build in effects or bypass and go to a pedal. The neck is of hard maple with rosewood fingerboard,the scale is 25" and there are 21 frets.

I love the sound of my Dano, Ive always been one for retro-style music but it also does great thrasher too!

Over all the Dano was build great with no flaws.

I think it will withstand the antics of a hyper ska session, we will see soon won't we?

I just got my first Danelectro (not to mention my first electric guitar) and Im in love with it! IVe seen and played alot of guitars, but ive always gona back to this one model, the Inneundo. It has 4 built in effects adn 3 pick-ups... its sweet! I was told that a Dano wasnt the best route to go for a first guitar, but Im sure I made the right choice. Ive only been playing electric for about 12 hrs and acustic since May of '98.

Made in Korea, I think. Plywood body, I think the neck is maple with a rosewood fretboard. Decent quality sealed tuners (look like Gotoh). Three single-coils, aligned in a "strat-like" configuration. Looks like a cross between a strat and a mosrite ventures model, cool and funky looking. Scale is between a Tele and a Les Paul I think. Comfortable neck, feels real nice. Active electronics in a BIG way! Has 4 built-in effects: chorus, tremelo, distortion, and echo. Tremolo bridge, strat-style strings thru body.

Really cool. You can get a huge variety of sounds out of this funky machine, by mixing and matching the different effects. Here's my assessment of all four...

DISTORTION: Not a distortion that you could typically use for crunchy rhythm, it's more of an "effect," i.e., if you wanted a way different sounding solo or something. Distortion is loud, and really jumps in your face when you hit that button. Feeds back fairly bad too. I considered this to be the least useable effect, though there could be situations where you might call on it. There is a knob assigned to this effect that only adjusts the tone of it; I would have MUCH prefered they would have made the knob a gain control, so that you could ratchet it back to a more useable sound.

CHORUS: Really nice. A pretty "lush" sounding chorus that I just always have to keep on. No knob assigned to this one, but it's just about the right amount of speed and depth as far as I'm concerned.

TREM: Again, pretty cool. A bit noisy (sort of a swooshing effect). This one has a knob assigned to adjust the speed.

ECHO: The chorus and the echo are my two favorite effects on the guitar. By combining chorus, trem, and echo, you can get a fairly cool Leslie simulation (okay, it's a poor man's version, but for 2 and a quarter out-the-door, what do you want??). I only knock off a couple of points due to the sort of weak and limited distortion.

The sound with no effects is a decent strat knock-off. No, it's not like a nice Strat with Fralins, Bardens, etc., but it's not bad either. Positions 2 and 4 do the quack thing okay too.

Pickups a bit noisier than the 'average' single-coil guitar, as you might expect.

Not bad for such a cheap guitar. Stays in tune fine. I do find the whammy to be a bit stiff, not nearly as responsive as a Strat's trem set-up. Finish (I bought the sparkle blueburst one) looks as if it was done really well. No rough frets, none sticking out. Pearl pickguard is a nice touch.

I don't like where they place the pickup selector switch! It's right in the way of where I strum.

Not wise to ever gig without a back-up. I think this thing will probably hold up okay. I won't rate it, cuz I don't know (time will tell).

No idea, no rating.

Playing thru a Crate Vintage Club 30 tube amp. I've been playing off and on for 20+ years, you'd never believe it to hear me play. :)

I like all sorts of rock 'n roll: classic, alternative, modern, 80s, radio stuff, obscure stuff, you name it. Jimmy Page and Keith Richards are two of my favorites, but I also dig the Black Crowes, Southern Culture, Cake, Foo Fighters, Everclear, Aerosmith, tons more!!

I don't know how Danelectro does it. They continue to make guitars that are funky and fun to play, at throw-away (literally) prices. Amazing. Everybody ought to own one or two.