Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: elijen on December 27, 2008, 04:44:40 PM
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Hi guys! It has been a while since I asked for your advice on guitars. I've been doing a lot of researching and searching, trying to find the right guitar for the right price. After a while I set my mind on Epi LP-100. And I almost took it a couple of days ago, but I told the guys at the shop to hold it for me until Saturday. And it turned out to be the right move. When I came to the shop today, I started browsing around since there were other costumers there already. That is when I spotted this magnificent Dean Caddy Select in (not my favorite) cherryburst. One of the employees noticed my curiosity for the Dean and asked me to try it. I explained that I do not play and in fact am looking for a beginner instrument. The guy plugged it in, nevertheless. Pickups were definitely more convincing than the ones on the Epi. It had nicer hardware (Grover tuners) and looked more appealing too. And now the finale: it was on a craziest discount ---> around 250 GBP :D
Thus, my first guitar day:
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really great first guitar! nice price too
i know the lp-100 is a bolt on neck. is the dean a set neck?
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It's a very pretty bit of wood you have there.
It certainly kicks the shite out of my first guitar, which was a god-awful thing from a catalogue shop (the manufacturer neglected to place it's name on the headstock it was so bad) that put me off of strats for quite some time.
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This is a Dean Caddy Select of Korean origin. It has a set neck. Caddy X is a bolt-on, but since this was offered for such a low price I opted for this one. It also has a coil tap/split, don't really know which one.
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Dean Cadilac = awesome!!
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This is a Dean Caddy Select of Korean origin. It has a set neck. Caddy X is a bolt-on, but since this was offered for such a low price I opted for this one. It also has a coil tap/split, don't really know which one.
its set neck too? thats great for £250!
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This is a Dean Caddy Select of Korean origin. It has a set neck. Caddy X is a bolt-on, but since this was offered for such a low price I opted for this one. It also has a coil tap/split, don't really know which one.
its set neck too? thats great for £250!
couldn't ask for a better x-mas present :)
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Christ, thats an awesome, awesome first guitar!
Congrats on taking up the instrument, enjoy the many hours of irritance as you begin to learn!
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that's very nice! :)
how much was it meant to be? i'm guessing quite a bit more than £250, anyway...
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Very nice!
One of the more tasteful deans.
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Thanks guys. The guitar feels nice, not too heavy. Grover tuners, coil tap, pick-ups sound okay. I tried it through a Bugera head, it sounded dirty, more on a hard rock side. For the starter amp I chose Micro Cube (also on discount).
The guitar was originally almost 600 GBP. For some reason the are getting rid of all the Deans and maybe Jacksons if I understood correctly. Can not tell you why. The did become the new Gibson distributor for Croatia recently, though I can't see the connection.
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You got yourself quite a good deal there, enjoy it!!
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Bargain. Not a great fan of the colour but I've always liked the look of Caddys and you can't really complain for that price anyway.
Enjoy man.
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as playability goes its probably great value, but i think its one of the uglyest guitars ive ever seen. I saw glen drover using one and thought ewww then.
Their has always been something about dean guitars i hate
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as playability goes its probably great value, but i think its one of the uglyest guitars ive ever seen. I saw glen drover using one and thought ewww then.
Their has always been something about dean guitars i hate
I'm with you. I think it's mainly the headstock.
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I'm not the biggest Dean fan, but I like the Caddy shape. Nice catch! :)
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Thanks guys. The guitar feels nice, not too heavy. Grover tuners, coil tap, pick-ups sound okay. I tried it through a Bugera head, it sounded dirty, more on a hard rock side. For the starter amp I chose Micro Cube (also on discount).
The guitar was originally almost 600 GBP. For some reason the are getting rid of all the Deans and maybe Jacksons if I understood correctly. Can not tell you why. The did become the new Gibson distributor for Croatia recently, though I can't see the connection.
sweet, that sounds like a great deal! the microcube is a cool small amp too, i think you've got a pretty sweet setup there. :)
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Bargain. Not a great fan of the colour but I've always liked the look of Caddys and you can't really complain for that price anyway.
Word :D
as playability goes its probably great value, but i think its one of the uglyest guitars ive ever seen. I saw glen drover using one and thought ewww then.
Their has always been something about dean guitars i hate
I'm with you. I think it's mainly the headstock.
I could have agreed with you in the beginning. But it looks better every day :)
I'm not the biggest Dean fan, but I like the Caddy shape. Nice catch! :)
Thanks. I know it is a nice catch. They really were reluctant to sell it for such a price :)
Thanks guys. The guitar feels nice, not too heavy. Grover tuners, coil tap, pick-ups sound okay. I tried it through a Bugera head, it sounded dirty, more on a hard rock side. For the starter amp I chose Micro Cube (also on discount).
The guitar was originally almost 600 GBP. For some reason the are getting rid of all the Deans and maybe Jacksons if I understood correctly. Can not tell you why. The did become the new Gibson distributor for Croatia recently, though I can't see the connection.
sweet, that sounds like a great deal! the microcube is a cool small amp too, i think you've got a pretty sweet setup there. :)
thanx dave :)
now the only thing left to do is learn and practice. a piece of cake :lol:
As far as the Caddy is concerned, for that price I'm loving it! If it turns out to be something worth keeping for a very long time, redressing it into black(ish) is definitely an option. Maybe it would be a better match to the body shape. I'm rather neutral towards that, but I am getting used to it. To my noob hands the neck is really comfortable. Of all the necks I tried it seems to have the best fretwork and shape. The inlays look nice too. My only complain would be that it is slightly neck-heavy. Due to headstock shape, no doubt. But it really is not important to me at the learning stage.
BTW... how do you guys feel about "Metal Method" videos? worth trying?
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great deal for half a monkey and the stock Dean pickups are pretty nice too since they design their own p/ups in-house.
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as playability goes its probably great value, but i think its one of the uglyest guitars ive ever seen. I saw glen drover using one and thought ewww then.
Their has always been something about dean guitars i hate
I'm with you. I think it's mainly the headstock.
Yeah they have ruined many of what could have been awesome flying Vs with that god awful headstock
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Wow, great first guitar , I must say! Congrats! :D Enjoy it. :)
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nice first axe,metal method are quite good but lick library are better,i remember when i first started to play the pain the frustration,then oh my god the joy when i finally learnt to play my first proper riff(sweet child o mine intro)playing guitar opened up a whole new life for me as i,m sure it will for you,good luck and practice hard :)
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thanx guys. couldn't be happier with the guitar. :D
right now I'm at that beginning point. just when I thought I nailed certain exercise, I $%&# up something. I know it takes time. but I am getting there and it is fun (probably not that much fun as it will be later).
talk about karma... my girlfriend left me just before Christmas :shock:, so now I've got plenty of time to bond with my six-string :P