Burns introduced the Ike Issacs model in 1958 and shortly afterward introduced the Single Cutaway Bass for the company.īy 1959 Burns was building guitars under his own name, although he did so in collaboration with a fellow named Henry Weill. Their company needed someone to build guitars, so they contracted with Jim Burns. This was a company founded by a couple with the surname Wooten that specialized in public address and guitar amplifiers from 1952 to 1974. The Ike Issacs model was distrubted by the Supersound Company. Within a few years he was playing with Stephan Grappelli, Barney Kessel and other well known artists. It was there he immersed himself in guitar playing and he really soaked it up. Issacs was born in Burma and came to London as a student in the mid 1940’s. The first commercially produced Burn manufactured guitar was the Ike Issacs short scale model. But Burns guitars and other European made instruments were readily available and affordable. Guitars imported from the United States had a very expensive import tariff, and were out of the financial reach of many Britons. As I have mentioned before, in the 1950’s through the 1960’s Britain was paying off a huge war debt. If you want one, you had better know what you are getting because they do not sound like any other guitars out there.Burns Guitars were enormously well received in Britain before the British invaded the USA. Having said that, buying a Danelectro is very much like buying a Rickenbacker. They aren't Gibsons, but they are solidly built. I have found that on their reissues and new models the quality of construction is much more consistent than on the originals from the 60s. I personally would never have any use for most of their standard 6-strings (with the possible exception of their now-discontinued Hodad) but I would love to get one of their baritone models or a Longhorn bass. The thing about Danelectros and "Dano-like" guitars is that they only do what they do, and it's a very specific sound (twangy & nasal, if that makes sense). (BTW - He's also an excellent singer and fiddle player). He puts the unique sound of those lipstick pick-ups to good use. The guy is a monster player and he has monster tone as well. Mike is pretty much my all-time favorite slide player. Mike Henderson plays lipstick tube pick-up equipped guitars by Silvertone (made by Danelectro), Danelectro and Jerry Jones almost exclusively (he has also been known to play a Telecaster and Dobro on occasion). One of my best friends Bill Perry uses one for his slide work allot of times and his sounds like crap too. I've played plenty long enough and done enough things with music and guitars that my opinion on this subject is easily just as good as his. Mine sounds pretty good to me.īill Ok fair enough, Page could disagree with me until the cows come home and I still know what I know! neither he or I are the last word on sound or guitars, I HEAR what he's done and I'll just let it stay there on his choice of guitars and amps, he sure never was a hero of mine, some are but not him. I saw him play his old Cokebottle model a whole lot, mostly on the open tuned solo stuff he would do with the Yardbirds at the end, and with Zep on the first few tours. Which are the ones with a masoinite top cap? those sound like crap!! even for slide! I had one for about two minutes! gezzz was that thing nasty!! If you are talking about an original, Jimmy Page would disagree with you. The truss rod is now accessible too.īTW: the hidden truss rod is not really an issue, I've seen my luthier unbolt the neck and straighten it out in under five minutes. I think Gotoh machine heads are now standard. The newer reissues have once again improved the hardware and got rid of the tape on the sides. Neither were the concentric pots on some guitars. And some common 1990s features, such as the "blow" toggle which runs all three pickups at once were not part of the original Dano spec. Not all the Korean models werw actual "reissues", they created a lot of brand new models as well. The way it works is that the Korean reissues from the 1990s kept to the Danelectro concept as much as possible (masonite top and back, pine frame, tape on the sides, hidden trussrod), but put on better bridges and machine heads. What do you guys think of those old danelectro re-issues? Well, I have two of the reissues, a DC-3 in silver flake and a HoDad baritone in pearl white.
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