1959 Danelectro Model 4011 Short Horn Conversion to 12 String

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A really cool, and very RARE, 1959 Danelectro Shorthorn Model 4011 Conversion from 6 to a 12 String Guitar.. This has been my personal 12 string for a couple decades...I have loved playing it and all my guitar buddies are amazed at this conversion. We did not do the conversion. I got it this way in the original Danelectro Hard Shell Case. I have done nothing to it but restring it and set it up occasionally! It has plenty of player wear as you can see, but it's in really great shape for a 1959 guitar.

Check out the pics of the headstock without the Plastic cover. It was an original Coke-Bottle Headstock that was redrilled to occomodate the extra 6 tuner holes. The Tuners cover the extra holes on the back of the headstock. The Plastic headstock cover hides it all and looks like a very good Professional job. It has an aluminum nut filed for the 12 but would not be original. One screw is missing from the tuners. We believe there is a screw broken off in there. New screws only go down so far. We left it alone. The new owner can leave it alone like I have or have it removed. Your choice. The remaining screws securely hole the tuners down correctly. Check out the pics I have included of the headstock without the cover. See pics 19 and 20.

These Coke-Bottle headstock guitars were made from 1955 to 1969. The Danelectro Short Horn Model 4011 guitars were made from 1958 to 1966. This one is clearly a 1959 from the dates on both the neck and the cavity dating..See pics 21 and 22 .

This Danelectro has the awesome Danelectro Lipstick Pickup, Masonite body, pickguard, Switch, knobs bridge tailpiece, back panels, frets, original side Tolex and strap buttons. The tuners and headstock cover are, or course, not original. The wiring looks correct but one pot was changed. See pic 23.

The Dano Lipstick Pickup sounds great. Very strong. The three way switch works as well. You have a separate tone setting on the third setting, a capped tone in the middle and an uncapped very bright setting in position one. Three very distinct settings on this guitar for a single pickup guitar! Great jangle on position one! I have the guitar tuned to Eb but it will take a full E tuning if desired. It also likes D tuning. Be careful keeping it fully tuned to E as it does not have a truss rod. Great Straight Neck with no fret outs. Excellent low action for a 12 string guitar. It has a 25 inch scale neck with a standard 1 11/16 inch aluminum nut. I love that it's not a wide 12 string neck. My fingers can still handle this guitar...even at my age! LOL

I had Jeff the Tech check it out and set it up with new light gauge strings. It plays great with awesome action. I have it set as low as she will go and has plenty of room to raise it. It has 21 frets and it plays and sounds great!

The original Black Masonite shows some player wear..yes, I said Masonite. For those that don't know about these guitars, they are made of Masonite on the front and back and have a wood frame inside. Very unique and they sound unique as well. Very cool sound...

For as much play that is on this cool guitar, the fabric side binding is in beautiful shape. The Tuners work as they should and it has the correct Tuner grommets as well.

Check out that case. I was so happy to have the case with this cool guitar. I have about 10 Danelectros in my private stock and was tempted to keep this case. It comes with this cool guitar. All latches, hinges and original handle are with it. Even the accessory box is still here. I couldn't bring myself to remove the cool College Sticker. Check it out. Great vintage case for this awesome guitar.

Now this guitar is uber cool but old and vintage so it is sold as-is no returns..Thanks for respecting that!

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