After getting my 1457 into playable condition, It's a great little guitar with a lot more character than my Dano, though I've bonded with the dano a lot. I bought mine when they were brand-spanking new and got the 1457 later. It's about as loud as any of those Gretch semi-hollows with the F-holes painted on rather than cut, slightly quieter than my Ibanez AF73.Īll of this being said, I bought the re-issue first, actually. The semi-hollow construction affects the tone, too. The world "jangle" comes to mind when describing the bridge pickup on it.
They're bright, but not harsh, gritty, but not midrangy like a P90. It's too hard to know since they really do sound very different to say the single coils on my Strat/Tele/Tapped-Parker. Now, if this is your first lipstick axe, you'll either absolutely love it or hate it. I don't really find much of a difference in tone between the two. I do a lot of tele-type stuff on the dano because it's also a hard tail with a wide enough fingerboard that bends aren't too crowded, which is maybe my only complaint about my Parker P-42.Ĭompared to lipsticks on other guitars? They're totally fine.Ĭompared to the lipsticks on the original? They're totally fine. My tele's set up for flats and I picked the action up so it feels like an archtop, so even though that's very close in terms of practice, it's my backup axe on gigs, so I tend to keep that one tucked away as well. I tend to not practice on my archtop because I don't want it getting damaged laying around my house, but the Dano's enough of a beater where you're cool keeping it within arm's reach of the couch. You go to reach for 5th fret with your eyes closed and you hit 7th if that makes sense. The scale length isn't that weird to get a feel for, but the fact that the tail piece is so close to the back of the instrument moves everything about 2 frets when compared to my strat. It's more like setting up an archtop though where the bridge isn't a tune-o-matic or fender type, but you can angle it if you're using heavier strings. The wood they used was pretty tough and unlike a nut, there's not a lot of string movement on the bridge over the years so they don't really wear out.
In terms of the old wooden bridges, It's not that big of a deal. You can intonate each string independently, but they're metal so I'm sure many here care about the tonal difference that creates. The scale on the reissues I'm pretty sure is the same so if that's a sticking point, (at least on the Dano 63, a U2 or something might be different) I'd avoid it. IIRC there was actually a recall because of this, but the issue is so small and incosequential that it doesn't bother me. On my reissue, there's a piece of white tape that goes around the side of the body and the lower cutaway the tape lost some glue so it sticks up.
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