What better place to ask a question about an old guitar than a motorcycle forum??

I have been on vacation (aka honey-do ******) since Dec. 20, and part of my servitude has involved cleaning out closets and the attic to get rid of old crap and make room for new crap.
During this endeavor, I came across my old bass guitars (3) from my garage band youth. That would be, er, 35-40 years ago. One of them is a Danelectro "short" bass. I would like to find strings for it. I have googled my brains out to no avail. I sent an email to a Danelectro site, but I thought I'd ask the gurus here as well.
The thing has 15 frets, the fretboard area of the neck is roughly 18" long, and it has a single "lipstick case" pickup. There is no model info on it, just a s/n of 1023 under the neck which I gather means it was made in October of 1963.
The strings are missing. I vaguely remember looking for replacements many years ago with no result. I'd really like to find strings for this to see if it still works.

Then I can pick up where I left off, playing "Wipeout", "Hey Joe", and "Down By The River"....


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