Danelectro Shorthorn

Manufacturer	Danelectro
Period	Original: 1959 to 1969, Reissued in the Late-1990s, 2007 and 2009-10. In current production as model '59M NOS.
Body type	Hardboard (Masonite) top and bottom with plywood frame;hollow body.
Neck joint	Bolt-on
Scale	25"
Body	Original models: Masonite
Neck	Original models: Poplar
Fretboard	Rosewood, 21 frets.
Bridge	Chrome-Plated steel with adjustable rosewood saddle
Pickup(s)	Lipstick pickups. (Original style brass tube with chrome plating.) Current (2014) model features Lipstick pickups manufactured in 1999.
Reissues: Black, Burgundy, Keen Green, Blue, Copper, Psychedelic '59M NOS:Limo Black, Orange-adelic, Outa-Sight White, Right On Red, Baby Come Back Blue, Go-Go Blue 59MJ ['59M NOS with metal flake finish]: Black Metal Flake, Silver Metal Flake

Original: 1959 to 1969, Reissued in the Late-1990s, 2007 and 2009-10.

Lipstick pickups. (Original style brass tube with chrome plating.)

The Danelectro Shorthorn line of guitars are a dual cutaway hollow bodied design, made of Masonite and poplar. The original models were introduced in 1959 to replace the U model guitars, and were in production until the closure of the Danelectro company in 1969.

There have been multiple re-issues of this line of guitars, the first two being the 59DC with two pickups and DC-3 with three pickups, sold between 1998 and 2001. The 59 Dano followed in 2007 and the 59-DC in 2009.

The Shorthorn range comes in one, two and three pickup models, and has the "Coke Bottle Style" classic , hollowed body cavity, and a seal shaped pick guard with two concentric "stacked" tone/volume knobs. The second reissue series (2007-2009) was Chinese-made, with an asymmetric headstock and bog-standard (non-stacked) master tone and volume knobs.

In 2014 Danelectro announced several improvements for its latest iteration, the '59M NOS. Manufacturing returns to Korea for the new model, along with stacked concentric knobs and canonical headstock profile. Featured hardware in some models includes tuneable die-cast bridge and NOS Lipstick pickups manufactured in 1999., being of all reissues, the most true to the original.

The Danelectro Convertible was a hollow-bodied thinline acoustic/electric guitar based on the Shorthorn. It had a conventional round sound hole with a lipstick pickup mounted across the hole. The Convertible name came from the ability to play it unplugged as an acoustic guitar or plugged in as an electric guitar. The Convertible has the double cutaway shape used on Danelectro's DC series of guitars.

The Convertible was originally produced in the 1960s. It was offered as a reissue between 1998 and 2001. The guitar is currently being reissued. The reissues differ from the originals in that they have mounted the pickup diagonally across the soundhole, and there is only one concentric knob as opposed to two separate tone and volume knobs. The reissues also have a cable jack located in the strap knob.

The Convertible had a floating bridge and a separate tailpiece. On the Convertible, the tailpiece was used to hold the strings equally apart while the metal riser on the bridge was not notched, with the undesirable result that the strings slid back & forth on the bridge when the guitarist bent strings while playing.

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