Deanless Dean Guitar

[GAR]

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Dean Zelinsky moves on - to make the lightning strike twice?

This is a big deal! Why nobody covered this? He left Dean last year apparently and it's only getting reported on now.

Not only that, he starts another company DBZ with alot of highend guitars pushing the design limit - and there's not a bad one in the bunch.

Best of all, he's simultaneously doing a USA and a lower-priced import line.

The website shows a few V's and single cutaways, and a pointy Metal type "ML" guitar but no Explorer-style guitar.

The sculpted top of that V looks killer..

[Diamondjimi]

I had heard a while back that he sold the company. He's been making quality guitars for decades ,I'm sure the DBZ's are gonna be top notch.
I'm sure he cashed out large by selling Dean Guitars...

[GAR]

Well starting in 83, the Jackson Rhodes and the rest of the oddballs in the lineup slowly overtook the Deans as the preeminent zenith of custom guitar.

First it was Hamer in 76, Dean overtook them in 80, Jackson in 83 superceded by Kramer in 85, ESP in 87, until Gibson and Fender started tightening up their acts in 88-89.

Dean hung onto dwindling sales as fancy wood, finishes and hardware features became adopted by the entire industry at which point Zelinsky sold the company off in the early 90's.

Then, from then what happened I can glean off the Dean discussion board:

That guy that bought Dean, in 92 then resold it again 3 years later to Thoroughbred Music in Florida (some of you may recall the ads in back of Guitar Player magazines of the time) who went bankrupt then focused on importing Korean made Dean designs, which didn't do too well in the market because the necks were terrible.

So a year later they hired Zelinsky to redesign and QC what got exported to the US later introducing a line of US Made guitars called Time Capsule which became the standard US line.

These were the guitars rock stars liked, so Dean was asked "can you get me rock stars" so he brought in rock stars from past endorsees. Then he lucked into Dimebag wanting some customized which became the Razorbacks and a whole landslide of demand brought all the other guitars into focus.

Then the owner wanted more control so he got some woodworking equipment and tooled up to do guitars in Florida and once the shop learned to build without Dean, they let him go.

It may prove to be a costly mistake if these new sleek designs kill the US made models.. I'd compare it to the latest haircut or lady's handbags where as a designer, Dean is brilliant and as goes with designers, it's almost always the case that the newest latest thing is better than what they did before and the DBZ's look sweet.

I've never seen anything like that contoured V it's stunning.

[ELVIS]

Nice of you to post the website (http://www.dbzguitars.com/web/)...


:elvis:

[ELVIS]

Here's (http://www.gear-vault.com/guitar-icon-dean-zelinsky-launches-dbz-guitars-web-site/) a link to a story and a few pics...


I don't care for the headstock...


:elvis: