Silvertone Stratotone 1423 early 1960s

Got this guitar from a guy who used to be a jazz guitarist back in the '50s and '60s. I didn't have to do much to this guitar, just had to do a little soldering and set it up a bit and find the "sweet spot" for the bridge. There's a loose inlay but it rarely affects playing. As you can tell, this guitar is all tone... and incredibly versatile for a guitar this light. It's a hollow body, like the Danelectro guitars but it was not built by Danelectro as some assume. This is a guitar that comes from the Harmony family, the "Jupiter", which is painted and styled very differently.

Played with AC15 and sometimes I crank in the Fulltone Fulldrive 2

Picture of guitar: http://guitarresurrection.blogspot.com/p/all-guitars.html

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• 1423
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• fulldrive 2

[omaudio]

show the headstock! dayum.

[jeng3000]

@omaudio oops... you're right! Sorry! You can see the guitar in the "All Guitars" page of my blog.

[jeng3000]

@omaudio blog is at the link above

[orion1935]

I bought one of these in 1961. It definitely was made by Harmony. It's a H49 Stratotone Jupiter that was rebranded as a Silvertone for Sears and Roebuck. Danelectro did

make guitars for Sears, so did Gretsch and probably many others. But they did not make this model.

[televisionlighter]

@drainedpool ooooh. Well damn thats interesting. Id always thought the companies were one in the same.

[drainedpool]

@televisionlighter This was definitely made by Harmony (Chicago, IL) for Sears in the early 1960s. The Harmony guitars all had the DeArmond pickups like you see here. Danelectro (Red Bank, NJ) also made guitars for Sears, but more in the mid to late 1960s. The Danelectro guitars all had "lipstick" pickups. No connection between the two companies other than they both sold re-branded instruments to Sears.

[totallyunmemorable]

@televisionlighter This guitar was made by Harmony, not Danelectro. They came from altogether different companies. This guitar has bent sides, btw, not cut out of poplar blocks like a Dano.

[televisionlighter]

This guitar IS in fact made by danelectro, maybe indirectly, but the same company that made silvertone guitars for sears made danos.

Ive owned a danelectro for a while and studied them pretty extensively, i couldnt afford a real strat so i tried to find the best inexpensive brands with that 60s sound, danos and silvertones are number 1 for that.

[omaudio]

cool thanks