Danelectro twin-neck fretted & fretless - *SOLD* £750 Harrow

[Happy Jack]

So here's a game I play roughly once a year. I list a whole bunch of basses for sale (really not wanting to sell any of them you understand) and once a couple have actually sold 😩 I let the remaining listings slide down below the radar. Until the next time.

 

I'm not selling because I'm desperate for the money, and if I was John Entwistle then I'd just keep the lot and have an ever-expanding collection, but the reality is that over half my basses get played very little, if at all. Common sense says that at least some of these lovely instruments should get back out in circulation.

 

I have no interest at all in trades. Replacing a bass that doesn't get played with a different bass that won't get played seems like a complete waste of time and effort.

 

On the other hand, many of my basses are pretty non-standard or left-field and therefore hard to price, so I'm not absolutely wedded to the figure stated.

 

I'm in Harrow HA1, close to Sudbury Hill on the Piccadilly Line, and I gig regularly throughout Beds, Bucks, Herts & Middx, with occasional forays into Surrey. Pickup in person is always preferable to despatch (from home, or a mutually-convenient pub, or at one one of my gigs), but I've had nothing but good experiences with DPD so if you live more than - say - 50 miles from Harrow then that's an option.

 

Right ... you want non-standard? Then non-standard you shall have.

 

 

Is this the only Danelectro twin-neck in the UK? Dunno, but I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

 

 

File under "there's something you don't see every day".

 

 

Basically someone bought two Danelectro Longhorn basses, sawed off the bits they didn't want, and glued the rest together.

 

Or something.

 

 

The tunders are the original, completely shitty design. They work as well as any other Danelectro tuners but are a big step down from a Fender or similar.

 

 

From this angle, it looks vaguely Klingon to me.

 

 

Shortscale, obviously.

 

 

All original, all in good working order.

 

This comes with a custom-built, fitted hardcase.

 

Edited 18 minutes ago by Happy Jack

[tayste_2000]

@AndyTravis

[tom1946]

I had the guitar version of this Dano in my shop, briefly, it sold immediately to a collector. Heavy old lump.

Quite fancy the bass version, (No stoppit,aw go on etc')

[Happy Jack]

28 minutes ago, tom1946 said:

I had the guitar version of this Dano in my shop, briefly, it sold immediately to a collector. Heavy old lump.

Quite fancy the bass version, (No stoppit,aw go on etc')

[NoirBass]

That is bonkers! 😜 

[stewblack]

I had this in my possession for a sleepover on its way to Jack.

We were tempted to run away together but he would have just tracked us down.

[Marc S]

Wow - that is something completely different! I've not seen one of these, and guessing they must be really rare, or as you say @Happy Jack this may even be a one-off. Amazing. GLWTS good sir 😀

[SICbass]

Now that is what I call a niche bit of gear. Very lovely though.

[Happy Jack]

Oh looky looky looky what I've found - my original pair of NBD videos from five years ago!

[Happy Jack]

 

[Happy Jack]

The rather 'arch' comment early on about rubber straplocks @ped was a then-current reference to something under discussion on Basschat at the time.

[Happy Jack]

 

[Happy Jack]

Incidentally, I feel I have to point out that these were shot in September 2020, just before Lockdown #2 came over the horizon. The reason this matters is that I used Lockdown #2 as an opportunity to learn video editing so these two videos are pretty much the last I ever did before that.

 

And they're both perfect, error-free "One-ers". Eat your heart out, Steven Spielberg ...

 

[Woodinblack]

On 16/07/2025 at 18:51, stewblack said:

I had this in my possession for a sleepover on its way to Jack.

 

Mine too - In fact I picked it up from its previous owner, a very interesting chap who had been in a beat type group in the 60s and was shifting stuff out, He had a very impressive Vox value bass stack from the 60s that was probably worth quite a bit now, that he bought new from the factory that he had no interest in buying. And quite a few interesting stories.

[ped]

25 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

The rather 'arch' comment early on about rubber straplocks @ped was a then-current reference to something under discussion on Basschat at the time.

I rather like it when you’re arch. Tell me off about something else 🤪

[Happy Jack]

Oooooh Matron!

 

[bassninja]

I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying the descriptions as much as the fascinating collection…

[Happy Jack]

Questions have been asked about the fitted hard case ...

 

 

 

 

[Magister Ludi]

Jack-just noticed this post from awhile ago,it reminded me of this-

 

"Rinus Gerritsen was the first Dutch pop musician to own a Danelectro bass guitar. He used this guitar until it was stolen during Golden Earring's American tour in 1977, after which his father made him a new one"......Some Dad eh?

[Happy Jack]

So that's a Fendelectro?

[Magister Ludi]

maybe.......lol

Yeah he used an old fender neck that was hanging around,I saw him play it on one of the last verrsions of radar love from this year-he can get an awesome sound from the  fender half !

Its on you tube should you wish to peruse......

[Hellzero]

Nobody asked, but how much does this thing weigh?

[Beedster]

On 16/07/2025 at 12:45, Happy Jack said:

I have no interest at all in trades. Replacing a bass that doesn't get played with a different bass that won't get played seems like a complete waste of time and effort.

Again, do you not understand how this place works Jack?

[Happy Jack]

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

Nobody asked, but how much does this thing weigh?

 

The whole 'kitchen scales' thing is just so declasse these days, don't you think?

 

 

Here we have the intersection of luggage scales with a meat-hook ... so much more satisfying.

 

 

And no, your eyes do not deceive you. The scales register exactly 9.5lbs = pretty much the weight of every decent (single-necked) P-bass in existence.

 

[Happy Jack]

Now listed on eBay.