My DEAN 335 lookin thing

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:28 pm

Here it is. Needs a ton of work but it's gonna be a cool guitar when it's done.

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:30 pm

sweetness of mythical proportions jay!

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kinda like an Epi Dot reissue, but with a shrimpfork..

nice..

so there are TWO of them.. hmmmm..

could there be a 3rd??

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hmmm.... I thought Bill had the onlyone made Question

Nice though Very Happy

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 5:50 am

Nup. Bill's is a USA. That's a Korean if memory serves me correctly. Still MEGA sweet!!!! Cool

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ahhh... I see .... You're absolutely right ! Very Happy

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Is that the only difference? US and Korean?

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Here's Jay's 335.

Here's Bill's. Other than the pickguard, what's the difference?

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Is worht more...?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 7:17 am

No. It means one was made in Korea and the other was made in the USA. In case none of you noticed, both are unbelievably sweet 335s...neither are priceless - cept to the owners of course. Wink

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I'd have one! I've always liked the 335s. Dates back to the "British Invasion" of the sixty and early seventys. Everybody played that body style........Gibson, Gretch, Epi......whatever.

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I cant deny that that is one fo the best looking geetaars ive seen!

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Bill, is yours actually dark on the inside, or is it just a result of an offset flash?

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 8:39 am

I've looked mine over and find NO identifying clues such as "made in.. " or a serial number. Bill and I spoke on the phone about them and the only difference I know of is mine seems to have standard frets an Bill are more like Jumbo's.

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Very cool! Whether there's 1 or 2 or 5 of them running around, they're still very very rare guitars. I'd love to have one for sure.

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Lon,
Not being able to see real good pictures of Jays.

Mine is definitely mahogany body with very distinctive graining visible, on front, back and sides.

The pickguard was missing off mine when I got it. I have since purchased a 5 ply 335 pickguard and installed it.

The inside of mine is also natural finish, I took out the pups the last time I changed the strings on mine and in the neck pocket in pencil was written prototype 4/96.

I know of several other Dean 335 style guitars out there, there is a vintage burst, and a birds eye maple one. A number of them were made in the Korean plant UnSung.
Bill

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they both have Korean "Dean" pickups..

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Throb,
My Czech Republic Custom handcrafted Korina Z, had the same Dean" pups except they were zebras.
Bill

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 6:42 am

I have 2 guitars with different sets of 'Dean' pups, and I'd imagine in a 335 style guitar they would be very nice.

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Justnoldbluzman wrote:

Throb,
My Czech Republic Custom handcrafted Korina Z, had the same Dean" pups except they were zebras.
Bill

not implying anything, just an observation.. Shocked

alot of the import guitars came with the "Dean" stamped pickups, it's just that i've *never* personally seen a USA with imported pickups..

proto, or not..

maybe they were changed out.. Question

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Bill's looks like a hand rubbed finish.

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 2:40 pm

if only they were to stick a bigsby on one of those...that'd be sick.