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The vender claims that this is a wont/prototype put together back when Danelectro was still living and kickin’. Whether or not that’s pure, I don’t be aware of. Here’s his tracing:

This is a super thinly scattered ’60s Danelectro Coral type Vincent Bell diction 60s prototype bass guitar. I exercise the mind that this was an experiment. Basically the people at Dano took a guitar material part and put a Wasp bass neck on it. Please see the last pic, it’s of a example sitar with the same emblem of plastic lable.

I’ve used it to gambol gigs, and it’s a veritable attention grabber. I always get looks and comments from other musicians.
It’s so big that I’ve named it “The Boat”.

Here is some annals from its previous proprietor…

…in 1986 Chris Lukasik (now departed) and I went to Cecil Gullickson’s(now departed) warehouse in Orlando, Florida and found two of these (I sold the other to the bass trifler for EmmyLou Harris). Cecil had bought a lot of the departed Dano list and moved it to Orlando to mart his then very novel guitar synthesizer(absolutely used by Steve Moth on an early album). His synth did not become fortunate as did later ones marketed by Roland, etc. and we bought his register. I kept this all those years, sold all the ease. I don’t reflect there were tuners on it in 1986. I have out of one's recollection the history of the tuners, and one of the pickups I ponder went lifeless over the years and chris replaced it, can not call to remembrance which one.

The bass makes use of a Coral neck matrimonial to an archtop acoustic guitar material part with two Dano one only-coils mounted in the soundhole. I bet this substance sounds awesome. On to the pics:

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