In addition to servicing guitars, Dan also sold new instruments. He often found himself stabilizing Danelectro® guitars by changing the factory tuners for Kluson-style aftermarket tuners, and by replacing the factory bridges. Nat Daniels of Danelectro once visited his shop, and upon seeing Dan's stabilizing techniques, left rather quietly.

Perhaps his silence was due in part to the simple fact that the Danelectro company was no longer in business. Ironically, sometime later, Dan met up with William C. Herring at a swap meet in New Jersey. Herring had bought the Danelectro company from MCA and Dan expressed some interest and he eventually acquired the trademark, as well as many guitar parts. The facilities produced some 650 to 700 single cutaway models that had one humbucker, no peghead logo, and Dan Armstrong Modified Danelectro on the pickguard.

While these sold well, Dan was in need of a change and in late 1971 he moved to England as he says "I like the view better, the houses and the countryside. It's a good part of the world".

While in England, he designed a new line of guitars and basses, as well as a line of amplifiers. These all bore his name, and were made by a company called Boosey & Hawkes.®

The guitars and basses were based on the lucite designs, but featured bodies made of wood and were produced between 1973 and 1975. Truly unique on these guitars is a sliding pickup that moves forward, or backwards to achieve any desired sound from the pickup.

Like the body style, the scratchplate, electronics and combination bridge/tailpiece closely resembled the 'see through' instruments. The combination bridge/tailpiece is a wrap-around design, silimar to a 53 or 54 Les Paul Standard.® while the headstock also somewhat resembles the headstock of a Gibson® guitar. Unlike the Gibson, it has only one volume and tone control. It also had a 'zero' fret, and a brass nut. Like his clear instruments, these also have small (yet different) type fret position markers, and two strap pins.

Here, one can see the close resemblence to the clear bass. There are a few differences, however. Besides the wooden body, it features a tune-o-matic style bridge, and the strings get fed through the back of the body like a Gibson Flying V.® Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones often plays this model bass.