Dean Acoustic Guitar Forum
First off i want to say this is not a dean hate thread. I tried to find a thread about this subject. Moon hunters free download. I'm just trying to get logical answers to all the negative stuff i read about them on this site.i've been playing for 15 years and only been on this forum for a few months but i have run across several threads where dean's are bashed-not just a few either. I see alot about dimebag's (rip) name being used.i had an older dean acou/elec that was decent and was planning to get one of dave mustaine's angel of deth v's.
Again, during those years, IMO, Dean guitars were my choice over what Gibson had to offer. Dean had a better or equal build. It could be the mindset of a small company giving a consumer a choice. It seemed that a small upstart company, like Dean, was able to build a better or equal instrument and handmade that a behemoth (Norlin) could not. Oct 28, 2010 Like all guitar makers, Dean has several levels of quality. Dean is mostly aimed at the hard rock to metal players and as such they possess qualities favored by those players. There are modells made outside that of course. They have a copy of a Strat and a Tele at low entry points. I have a few Deans and a couple are V's. Both are the '79 series.
If it is anything like his sig jackson i own, it should be a great guitar. They seem to have a strong line of artists too:dave mustaine, rusty cooley, michael angelo batio, micheal schenker, rick peterson, michael amott, jeff berlin & lets not forget brett michaelsthere seem to be alot of metal bands & artist as well as rock & jazz. So i want to know what all the hates about - former owners or those with experience with the guitars, what's the deal? Like everybody has said. They continuously make dimebag signature guitars that he never played.
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Not only that, most of the productions guitars that you a see in stores are usually not made very good at all. They finally started to use OFR bridges on some of their more expensive guitars, and to me they just arent worth the price tag that they carry. I have never played a dean guitar that I have liked before except for a USA made Michael Angelo Batio model. Dean is just not my cup of tea, and i think that reverberates with a lot of people on here as well. I'm pretty neutral on the dime issue.
Not a hater, not a huge fan And it's probably his family or his girl Rita that authorize the use of his name with Dean and (even more hate on SS.org) Krank Same thing has gone on with artists for decades; Jimi Hendrix now has signature guitars with artwork 'inspired' by his doodles that sell for thousands of dollarsNow to my own generic reasons for not liking them: I've never played one I like, and there's like what, 4 body shapes that each come in 66 gimmicky finishes each? I don't jive with the necks, always felt squarish to me but that's preference, naturally. Their tremolo systems always looked and felt crazy, and too many a time I would tune the whole damn thing to perfection, locked the nut, pulled one divebomb and the whole thing was out again Never could figure out how Trivium did it for so longAnd, Mr. Zelinsky himself stepped away and now has his own rapidly growing company. When a company's founder and namesake decides to get uninvolved, that seems to say something iffy about the going-ons in my eyes. I say the reason behind deans hatred is mostly due to grape vine. One person says he had a bad experience, and the word spread out and sooner or later, deans reputation is significantly hurt.look at BC RICH for example.
A few years ago, they had their import line down the gutter, and now they are trying really hard to come back yet its not sticking.i say sure, dean had a few issues with their QC, but i think they have solved them since 2008. Dean used to be made by another factory in early 2000s in korea where the QC was pretty steady and on par with other brands. They switched to UnSung factory and their qc went down and their prices went up.
But i think since then they have either boosted their QC or have just switched factories again?i used to have a Dean V79. Sure, it had a few issues, and hence i sold it after a month of owning it, but since then i picked up PRS SE, a few agiles, a schecter c-1 classic, and a few others, and i have yet to find a guitar that played quiet like that.i have yet to hear anything bad about the new Soltero line.well, they are discontinued now though. I wouldn't not buy a guitar based on what brand it was. If when I picked it up it played good and had the tone I was after when plugged in, it doesn't matter if it's a Dean, BC Rich, ESP or even a strat, if you like the feel and sound of it, buy it.That been said and done, I don't like how Dean has continually flogged Dime's name for all that it's worth. They don't need to lol. They have Mustaine, Michael Amott, Karl and Dallas, Shencker, Angelo Batio and a number of other fantastic guitarists. Seems pointless to flog off mostly Dime.
Preciate that.Im looking, but Im not finding anything there either.:arg:try making a post on the Dean board - lots of knowledgeable folks.For the most part - the USA models will have 'Made in the USA' with YY - SERIAL on the back of the headstock. In the late 90's (1996 I believe) the serial #'s for the USA models were stamped on the fret board after the last fret.There are Czech Republic guitars that will have Hand Crafted in the Czech Republic on the back of the headstock with a serial # (nothing to denote year.)The Korean and Chinese guitar serials for the most part don't give a year or any other indication. They did start putting a year # somewhere in them, but they are imports and the year really doesn't matter for their worth.There were some bolt on USA and Czech models. Not many.EDIT -Vendetta 3.0 information (serial # will not be different between import models). Neck Through Construction.
Solid Mahogany Body. Maple Neck with Rosewood Fingerboard. Dual Humbuckers. Tune-O-Matic Bridge. String-Throught Body Design. Classic Dean V Ferrule Pattern. 24 frets.
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25.5 Scale. Black Hardware.
Pearl Evil Eye Inlay. Thanks for the help guys!I seen where my membership/log in was just approved on the Dean boards so I will be posting something there in a few minutes.Im starting to think this is going to be all for naught though. I think I pissed the guy off when I told him I thought his guitar looked a hell of a lot like the Dean Vendetta XM model.He exploded right away with, 'Well, if it is indeed the XM, what do I have to add to make this an even trade?' I answered, 'A real guitar man! Im sorry but I just DO NOT like basswood guitars. If it is not the Vendetta 3.0, Im not interested.' Havent heard from him since.