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I have that "Black Keys Live" DVD of an old Thickfreakness era concert in Australia with Dan playing his JD Tele.

I finally got around to watching the music videos that come as bonus material. There is that bad David Cross directed video and one for Set You Free

In the Set You Free video Dan seems to be playing a Silvertone 1423 "Stratotone Jupiter" with a black pickguard or no pickguard and a LP style toggle switch instead of a blender switch. And perhaps a Gretsch tailpiece, hard to tell from the grainy, low res video quality of the video.

You can sort of make out the Silvertone logo on the headstock in this frame.

I can't find this model listed in the gear that Dan has been known to own just his Silvertone U1 and a Silvertone 1454 "Rocket".

Anyone have any info relating to Dan ever owning this guitar? Since I recently bought a Silvertone Stratotone I am all ears.

Update : Harmony silvertone jupiter 1423

Yeah didn't see him playing on his h44, but seen on the bonus interview on the crystal ballroom dvd,
while they were recording A&R in the cryppy house studio.
Also rare, this GQ interview where we can see Pat playing on an Jupiter H49 natural. (Dan's collection I guess).
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Wow! Amazing shit! I enjoyed this edit so much! Where does it come from?
I got myself a H47 mercury that I turn into a replica of Dan's model (P90's + B3 bigsby).
It is a beauty, and sound amazing!!
Would like to collect all of those Stratotones!

I had seen your Mercury replica in the stackshotmazz thread documenting his recent build. Both of those H47s look awesome and I suspected that they sounded as good as they look.

I figured if I put Fralin P-90s in my 1420L I could get the same effect tonally, with the grit of the P-90s and the mojo of the hollow body of a 1960s Stratotone body.

The problem I ran into is wanting to surface mount my pickups so that I don't have to cut into a 52 year old guitar. Fralin has Alnico pole P90s that will surface mount, at the sacrifice of some of their ability to distort. And being that they are $180 a set and possibly won't deliver on the tone, I had to pass.

So now I am looking at go closer to the hot DeArmond/Rowe pups that came in the Jupiter models. I found some surface-mount Alnico magnet pickups, that are in these Airline Smeck tribute guitars, for $90 a set.

Or I might try two Gretsch lap steel guitar neck pickups at $45 for a pair even though they only have a 5.6k DC resistance.