Despite being one of the New Jersey company's best-remembered creations, the Longhorn series are all actually fairly rare, especially so in this 6-string bass format. Listed for the entire run at $150.00, this was Danelectro's most expensive bass instrument up until almost the end. After a quick re-location of the treble pickup farther back on the body in 1959, the Longhorn basses survived up into the late 1960s with only minor alterations. This was one of Nathan Daniels' gifts to the world, as he put it 'I gave bass players two extra strings for free!' The Danelectro Longhorn Model 4623 was introduced in the company's 1958 catalog alongside a matching 'regular' 4-string bass and 6-string 'Guitarlin' guitar. The 6-string Longhorn Model 4623 is a serious rarity and simply one of the coolest bass guitars ever designed! And it IS a 'Bass Guitar', a 6-string instrument originally intended to be tuned an octave below standard. 1967, made in Neptune, NJ, bronze lacquer finish, masonite and pine body, poplar neck with rosewood fingerboard, tweed hard shell case. It will be shipped in a gig bag.ĭefault shipping is USPS Priority (1-3 days) with tracking number.Danelectro Longhorn Model 4623 Model Electric 6-String Bass Guitar, c.

The frets are also not consistent with heavy playing. The fretboard is rosewood and shows no signs of wear. More importantly, the 'tape' that runs along the entire outside of the body is completely intact. This is a typical vintage guitar cosmetically-the pics tell it all, but nothing really major. Otherwise, all of the features of the original '59 are replicated on this DC-2 (lipstick pickups, stacked volume/tone knobs, coke bottle headstock, etc.). The later reissues started using Gotoh tuners. I can't explain the uniqueness of these tuner covers except by speculating that the Korean factory made some during the latter years of the 1st reissue, when the bridge also changed from the wood bridge, which had a tendency to collapse, with the stock reissue Danelectro bridge on this DC-2. The tuner covers have an interesting shape, but are not the 'D' type. There are several notable features of the DC-2 being offered. The NOS refers to current production using NOS lipstick pickups and the MOD refers to changing the wood bridge to the Bad Ass (bad choice). I think that this is because many subsequent reissues that were Made in China and then back to Made in Korea in 2014 started using 'DC '59 NOS MOD' and other names. There are very few examples on-line where the DC-2 designation is used.

At that time, the designation for the 1st reissue of the original 1959 Danelectro double cutaway model was DC-2. This is of course an iconic guitar linked to Jimmy Page. Vintage Danelectro DC-2, Made in Korea, 1st Reissue (1999-2001)

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