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CJ

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Dean Z project
« on: January 22, 2009, 12:00:38 AM »
came in one piece. not sure what year it is... i'll hopefully get some help on that on the dean forums...
but its a late 70's-early 80's Dean Z guitar, signed by the great Dimebag Darrell. unfortunately i spent all of my money buying this, so it will be a project in the working for a long time. when its done though, it will be awesome. its hard to get a good feel for the guitar, but the neck feels amazing with a really unique shape to it.

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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2009, 12:05:56 AM »
more pics.
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 12:10:00 AM »
Wow! Nice but a bit beaten... these cracks are only on paint or on the woods too??
Ask lord to grant you patience, that will be a long project!

Hope you get it fine!
What the idea on it?


PS: hope you don't mind, but I think this headstock suits only the ML :?
I would cut it off, even being a serious hard and dangerous work (can make a beaten guitar become firewood...)
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 12:18:29 AM »
the cracks appear to be only in the paint. the only place that its hard to tell is on the headstock, but i'm almost positive they're just in the finish.

i'm really not sure what i'm going to do on this yet. i'm going to look to the guys at dean for some help. i believe they made this guitar in natural finish, and its possible that what you see on most of the guitar is the original finish. if so, i'm just going to sand off the rest of the black.

the other option would be a repaint, leaving the signature along, or if somehow possible, some kind of burst coming from around the signature (again leaving it alone).

and i originally didn't really like the headstock, but its grown on me. plus, after seeing the other headstocks that dean used on these in the early 80's, this one looks much nicer.
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 06:31:27 AM »
You've got some work to do there!

That could be a very worthwhile guitar though. Personally I don't like Dean's but any genuine signed relic has got to be worth some effort. Go to it! I'll be very interested to see how that comes out.
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 07:19:26 AM »
part of me says clean it up and it will be a ncie guitar... but part of me says it should be left it its 'extreme relic' ;) state... i reckon it can still be made very playable either way
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 08:40:48 AM »
Leave it as it is, get it playing, and play the cr@p out of it!
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 09:05:58 AM »
looks like it needs new frets hahahha.

badass though
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 01:49:11 PM »
thanks for the comments guys.

Wez, yeah that's what i was having trouble deciding. with all these people making fake relics and stuff these days, this one looks pretty cool as is. but on the other hand i think it would be really cool, and fun, to completely re-do this guitar.
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 02:05:08 PM »
only my opinion, but looks wise i'd keep it as it is.  obviously it'll need work to make it properly playable, but i think it looks fantastic!  what ever you do, i hope it turns out well, and congrats on getting your hands on something a little bit special.
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 02:13:45 PM »
You could clean it up, then get someone to "relic" it...

Nah - leave as is.  Not my cup of tea, but that's what I'd do.

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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 02:14:24 PM »
Do you know how the hell it ended up in this state?  What's the story behind it?  Where are all the missing parts?
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 02:21:01 PM »
Again, just my opinion, but I'd leave it be. Get it finished to make sure the signature stays put, get the hardware on and all the technical bits fixed up so it's fully functional and well set-up, but leave the appearance as it is, I think it's beautiful in its own way!!

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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 02:28:21 PM »
The trem looks weird on that, doesn't look like the traditional Kahler route, and I think the trem arm slots in between the e and B strings on all Kahlers.
Close up pics of that would be cool
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Re: NGD (a very special one)
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2009, 02:32:39 PM »
Quote from: Twinfan on January 22, 2009, 02:14:24 PM
Do you know how the hell it ended up in this state?  What's the story behind it?  Where are all the missing parts?

as far as i know, the guitar has been like this for about 15-20 years atleast. and you can tell that's true, there's cobwebs in all the holes. story is... the guy i bought it from who is 40 something now, bought it from his friend.  his friend that he bought it from i tried to paint on the lighting bolts like from the CFH guitar. after that he obviously sanded everything down and was going to re-do it. i've no clue as to when exactly there was ever hardware in it. but then the guy i bought it from bought it from his friend, was going to fix it up, and never did. he then got it signed by Dimebag in '94. so its been exactly like this since at least '94, but definitely a whole lot longer since his friend also had the guitar sitting like that for a bit before he bought it.
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