Guitar Pic of the Day - 11.19.08

[Help!I'maRock!]

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The Dean EVO Special is a perfect blend of vintage design, old world craftsmanship and decades of guitar building technology. The Dean EVO is truly the "Evolution of Guitar Design" at its finest. With a deep dished, carved, ultra thick flame maple top on a select Honduras mahogany body, the EVO achieves incredible sustain and astonishing tones. The EVO also features a neck joined at the body with our exclusive angular neck joint. Our neck joint was specially designed to attain the optimum in playability and ultimate resonance.

Arched Figured Maple Top
Mahogany Body
24-3/4" Scale & 1-11/16" Nut
Grover Tuners
Nickel Hardware
Dean Humbucker Pickups
Tune-O-Matic Bridge
Set Mahogany Neck
Fully Bound
Rosewood Fingerboard
Dot Inlays
22 Frets

[Aahzz]

It's pretty. Doubt I'd play it.

[Mark Wein]

Warmer toannz than a Tele :weebz:

[Help!I'maRock!]

Warmer toannz than a Tele :weebz:


ze joke, it haz been gotten. rim

[Mark Wein]

biggrin

[Denverdave]

Nice looking guitar, but the lower end Deans have not been that impressive sounding - at least the ones I have played. And my Tele has MUCH warmer tones than that Dean....

[Help!I'maRock!]

Nice looking guitar, but the lower end Deans have not been that impressive sounding - at least the ones I have played. And my Tele has MUCH warmer tones than that Dean....


needs Pearly Gates installed. :weebz:

[warren0728]

it's pretty and i do want a new solid body guitar with humbuckers....not sure about deans though.....

[Prages]

How original.

I mean, it's alright to look at, but it's just a run of the mill LP knockoff (only with more accessible upper frets).

Meh.

[JModius1972]

^^

What he said.

[Eminence_Front]

I have to weigh in, mostly to agree.

But I also have a question.


The flame and other "exotic" finish tops are generally veneered on right ? So it's usually a solid, or solid-chambered body, with a laminate and a binding ?


Reason I ask is that like many folks, I used to really dig those super detailed tops with the nice bookmatches pieces and such. But, the more guitars I see, and play, the less I like that...I find alot of people are like that too.


Is that just because we realize how cheaply it can be done so it doesn't really add anything to the guitar ?


I mean, I still love the look of a tastefully done Quilted or Birdseye top. But those flamed maple, and tiger striped tops just don't do it for me.



Makes me wanna break out my Stryper CD and play "To Hell with the Devil"

[Prages]

On the low cost guitars it's usually either a very thin veneer or even a 'photoflame'. On the pricier guitars, it's actually a full flamed (or quilted or birdseye) maple cap, so the grain pattern will run through the full thickness.

I've got a few guitars with fancy tops, a few with pretty understated tops, and a few solid color guitars. I can't say I really prefer one over the other though. It just depends on my mood at the time.

I have gotten pretty tired of seeing $200 guitars with 5A quilted maple veneers and I've always hated really flashy inlays...especially abalone.

That said, the guitar in the OP doesn't seem over the top to me. I'm sure it's a veneer, but it's not like it jumps out and screams at you. At least, it doesn't to me.

[Denverdave]

Makes me wanna break out my Stryper CD and play "To Hell with the Devil"



You say that like it's a bad thing.... heavy-metal-044