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[Philly Q]

I'm not the biggest Dean fan, but I like the Caddy shape.  Nice catch!  :)

[dave_mc]

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. :)

[elijen]

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?

[HTH AMPS]

great deal for half a monkey and the stock Dean pickups are pretty nice too since they design their own p/ups in-house.

[Transcend]

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

[Sjusovaren]

Wow, great first guitar , I must say! Congrats!  :D Enjoy it.  :)

[hendrixfan]

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 :)

[elijen]

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