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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

526.0. "DEAN 88, what's the scoop?" by HAVOC::DESROCHERS (me an' Crazy Janey were...) Fri Mar 11 1988 11:18

    
    	I tried a DEAN eighty-eight yesterday at Mr C's.
    	It was made in Japan, had 2 single coil pickups and
    	and humbucker in the bridge position.  It had their
    	whammy setup.  The neck was made of ebonal (sp).
    	The pickups were EMG and could coil tap the humbucker.
    	This one happened to not have a price tag on it.
    	
    	It played light years better than the Kramers, BC Rich's,
    	and Hamers in the store and those were $700 - $1400.
    	The neck was really nice and the fingerboard was a delight.
    
    	I asked how much?  He said $359 plus $99 for the case.
    
	The next DEAN model up is $1200 and handmade in the U.S.
    
    	Anyone know anything about this guitar?
    
    	Thanks,
    	Tom
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526.1oopsHAVOC::DESROCHERSme an' Crazy Janey were...Fri Mar 11 1988 11:204
    
    	"The neck was made of ebonal"... I meant the fingerboard.
526.2Sounds Like A Good Deal To MeAQUA::ROSTTush, tush, you lose your pushFri Mar 11 1988 18:0622
    
    Hi, Tom!!!  Getting sick of the old 335??????   8^)  8^)
    
    Dean has been making very few guitars in the US lately.  Those that
    they are making are typically sky-high price-wise.
    
    "Ebonol" is a synthetic that is made to feel and sound like ebony.
     Kramer used to use it on all their metal-neck stuff and Steinberger
    uses it on their fingerboards as well.  It's certainly *cheaper*
    than ebony.....
    
    Are those real EMGs (i.e. active, you need a battery) or their "budget"
    Select by EMG type????
    
    
    
    						Brian
    
    P.S. There's a rotten tomato in my kitchen with your name on it
    waiting for Springjam  8^)  8^)  8^)
526.3ZZZZZZZZBUSY::JMINVILLEFri Mar 11 1988 18:4415
    I tried the same guitar at Mr. C's and also liked it much better
    than the Kramers or B.C. Rich's in the same price range.  The  
    pickups were the non-active "Selects".  The Whammy system was
    a cross between a Kahler and a Floyd Rose (I don't know if Dean
    manufactures it themselves or what -- Brian could check this with
    his good buddy Jim...:^).  I like the Kahlers better, but that's
    just my opinion.
    
    I was looking around for a guitar to trade up to (from my current
    strat copy made by a company that is never favored by anybody and
    whose name begins with a "P" -- this'll be sure to draw comments),
    but, in all honesty, I like mine much better than even the Dean.
    Someday I'll find a "real" guitar that I like AND that I can afford.
    
    		joe.
526.4the P wordMIZPAH::CLARKWed Mar 16 1988 11:359
    re :things that begin with P
    
    Why trade up? I have something that begins with the same P. When
    I tell that obnoxious young guy at Mr C's (not Jim, the other guy)
    that I play through one of THEM, he kind of looks at me like I'm
    an intestinal parasite and goes to help some other customer who
    plays thru a GK or a Laney or a Marshall. But I like 'em.
    
    -Dave