Some insights on Dean, BC Rich, Hamer and a Burst by Tommie Bukovac & the boys at Gruhn's

[donner]

Them guys talking back & forth about an interesting acoustic and electric shootout between an early Dean Elite and Tom's 58 Burst.

Both of the guitars sport Gibson PAFs.

A bit of philosophing about Dean, BC Rich and Hamer being strong contenders to Gibson in the late 70s and early 80s by people that know a thing or two about guitars.

Well worth watching the conversation any minute.

 

Edited September 16, 2024 by donner

[Rich_S]

I watched it today.  Them boys know a bit about geetarz.

[ARM OF HAMER]

                     Saw that....................... I always watch the boys at Gruhn's. Interesting take on those 2 guitars, Dean was making some great and unusual guitars back then. I had a friends early Cadillac for playing gigs at one point and that was a fine guitar, I don't know how the current models are. I DO remember that guitar was HEAVY! The Dean and the Burst do have a very similar sound..................they sure are different in price! The real PAFs in the Dean are worth more than the guitar itself.

Edited September 18, 2024 by ARM OF HAMER

[Steve Haynie]

That was good.  Thank you for posting it. 

[stedge]

I like the 335

[stedge]

But i suspect it was sold at that very moment for beaucoup $$

[HSB0531]

9 hours ago, ARM OF HAMER said:

                     Saw that....................... I always watch the boys at Gruhn's. Interesting take on those 2 guitars, Dean was making some great and unusual guitars back then. I had a friends early Cadillac for playing gigs at one point and that was a fine guitar, I don't know how the current models are. I DO remember that guitar was HEAVY! The Dean and the Burst do have a very similar sound..................they sure are different in price! The real PAFs in the Dean are worth more than the guitar itself.

I had no idea that Dean used Gibson PAF's back then.  A friend of mine had bought a Cadillac back when they first came out.

[donner]

11 hours ago, HSB0531 said:

I had no idea that Dean used Gibson PAF's back then.  A friend of mine had bought a Cadillac back when they first came out.

These PAFs were put in by Greg Voros, not Dean!

[donner]

17 hours ago, stedge said:

I like the 335

 

17 hours ago, stedge said:

But i suspect it was sold at that very moment for beaucoup $$

3 days ago Uncle Larry wrote this on his Utube:

 

Edited September 19, 2024 by donner

[ARM OF HAMER]

5 hours ago, donner said:

These PAFs were put in by Greg Voros, not Dean!

                                             Absolutely..................it is mentioned in the video that Greg installed those pickups when he bought that guitar, it didn't have any pickups. That guitar would have had DiMarzio pickups in it originally.

Edited September 19, 2024 by ARM OF HAMER

[ARM OF HAMER]

5 hours ago, donner said:

 

3 days ago Uncle Larry wrote this on his Utube:

 

               I would take that Gibson 335 over Uncle Larry "Burst" anytime, a much more versatile guitar, I was surprised that was all they were asking for it really, being it was at Gruhn's.

[Disturber]

I would have loved to have seen a 4 digit or a 79 Sunburst in that comparison. It would have spanked that fork shrimp on the butt.

[HSB0531]

On 9/19/2024 at 3:13 AM, donner said:

These PAFs were put in by Greg Voros, not Dean!

Thanks, I didn't watch the full video, but it does make sense with the Dean production time line that the guitars came with Dimarzio pups.

[donner]

57 minutes ago, Disturber said:

I would have loved to have seen a 4 digit or a 79 Sunburst in that comparison. It would have spanked that fork shrimp on the butt.

Some of these Standards did have real PAFs from the beginning.

That was mentioned in the video, too.

Would have been an interesting comparison and a fair competition.

Edited September 20, 2024 by donner