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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Ratrod on September 23, 2005, 01:17:07 PM

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Ratrod on September 23, 2005, 01:17:07 PM

I have succesfully pimped my Dean Psychobilly. Full review of the guitar and the (GFS) pickups are on Harmony Central soon.

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: chrisola on September 23, 2005, 04:25:59 PM

Very nice, not my cup of tea personally, but its got a good loud 80s vibe going on for sure :)

i have a guitar strap with the chequers on :lol:

(and no i didnt get it cos i thought it looked cool in Spinal Tap :P)

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Johnny Mac on September 23, 2005, 09:04:24 PM

Very nice Ratty!

I've been getting into The Reverend Horton Heat on my ipod. Very good stuff.  :)  Do you like him?

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on September 23, 2005, 09:06:02 PM

hehe, cool!

Link to review, pls?

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: 38thBeatle on September 23, 2005, 10:22:08 PM

Yeah , nice one Ratty. I'll check out the H/C review. It takes a few days usually I think.

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on September 23, 2005, 10:23:36 PM

Quote from: 38thBeatle

Yeah , nice one Ratty. I'll check out the H/C review. It takes a few days usually I think.

Yes, about 4 days to post!

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: jt on September 24, 2005, 02:24:13 AM

:D Yer that does look cool Ratty !!

 :D  8)

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Tim on September 24, 2005, 08:13:33 AM

That looks really great, the look of that guitar says it all 8)

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: indysmith on September 24, 2005, 08:30:42 AM

thats awesome! lol. i like the intentional tackiness factor! Shame theres no BKPs

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Ratrod on September 24, 2005, 12:45:26 PM

Thanks for the cool replies guys. I still have to write the actual reviews. I'll post a link as soon as they're on the HC site.

I'm a bit reluctant about putting BKP's in such a cheap (medium quality) guitar. I do have some ideas for a great rockabilly pickup, it'll have to wait untill I can afford a serious hollow body.

Hey Johnny, I'm a big fan of the Rev. I have some of his stuff on CD and DVD. When my next paycheck comes in, I'll order his latest two discs.

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Tim on September 24, 2005, 03:43:05 PM

If you're apprehensive about loading a BKP set you should let me rewind the stock p/ups, we do alot of rewind work and can seriously improve most things.

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Ratrod on September 25, 2005, 12:30:01 PM

I'll keep that in mind, Tim. The guitar now has GFS Retrotrons in it. I'm gonna field test 'em for a while and see what can be improved. So far I'm happy with the twang and jangle in these pickups and they do some great overdriven hard rock too. They're ceramic but they are very nice clean. They could use a little more growl.

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: The amazing Phil on September 27, 2005, 11:16:02 AM

You could always transplant the BKPs to a guitar you feel is more "worthy" at a later date, but it looks really cool man.

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: big steve on September 27, 2005, 05:11:48 PM

once you've got BKPs in a guitar, i could imagine it would be hard to go back...

Title: Pimped Dean Psychobilly
Post by: Ratrod on September 27, 2005, 05:12:10 PM

Links to the reviews:

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Dean_Guitars/Psychobilly-1.html

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data2/GFS_Pickups/Retrotron-Nashville-Hot-01.html