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Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 19 2008, 08:02 PM

I bought a new guitar today! It's a Dean Dave Mustaine Signature Flying V and it totally ROCKS!
I played about 7 diffrent guitars including Ibanez prestige RG's and Jackson Rhodes at the store and this one blew the rest away. It is black, equipped with Dave Mustaine Live Wire Pickups, has 24 jumbo frets and is perfectly balanced on a strap, which I see rarely on a Flying V. Give me some time and I will do a review with pics as soon as possible.

Posted by: audiopaal Mar 19 2008, 08:10 PM

Congratulations, that's awesome
Post some pics and do a review when you're able to put it down for a few minutes

Posted by: Bogdan Mar 19 2008, 08:15 PM

Wow thats great news man!! I'm really happy you bought it! Can't wait for pics and review!

Posted by: MickeM Mar 19 2008, 08:16 PM

Wow congratulations!! Sounds like lots of fun :-)

Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Mar 19 2008, 08:44 PM

Wow, that's great man, I'm really happy for you and your new guitar. Good luck, and wish you many many fine years with it!

Posted by: Hisham Mar 19 2008, 10:38 PM

congrat for the the flying V.

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Mar 19 2008, 11:19 PM

for sure a cool guitar, congratulations

Posted by: Goliath Mar 20 2008, 02:11 AM

Woot! Welcome to the King V club! I love my DV8-R, I'd like to play one side by side with the dean and see what has changed. The LWs are great pickups, I think you'll really like them.

Posted by: Danilo Capezzuto Mar 20 2008, 02:56 AM

You rock now!!

Posted by: sam47 Mar 20 2008, 03:00 AM

Not just new but a good one! Congrats man!

Posted by: Smikey2006 Mar 20 2008, 03:20 AM

urg im so jealous.. its such a nice guitar

Posted by: Dejan Mar 20 2008, 10:16 AM

Congrats for the new guitar, looking forward the review and pics

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Mar 20 2008, 10:31 AM

Congrats on the new guitar man

Posted by: Toni Suominen Mar 20 2008, 10:41 AM

Congrats on the new guitar, can't wait for the pics and review!

Posted by: Batista Mar 20 2008, 11:00 AM

Damn nice dude! Can't wait to see some pics from it

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 21 2008, 12:02 AM

Sad News:
The toggle switch broke down during playing and I took the guitar back to the store to get it fixed and set up right away. They fixed the switch but when the guitar-tech adjusted the truss-rod it also broke!!! They said that they will order me another guitar but it would take almost a month until it arrived.

Good News:
Since i was pretty p***ed of by the quality of that guitar and the time I would have to wait, the store manager offered me a huge discount on an Ibanez Rg 550 20th anniversary, which is a strictly limited run that is built like the Rg's from about 20 years ago, including and Original Edge I Tremolo and the first Wizard Neck style. I went for that one because it is way better than a comparable Rg 2550 and I got it for the lowest possible price. Now I will do a review of this one...


Note:
I don't know if it was just my Dean Mustaine Signature that had production flaws like that or if it's Dean's Korean built quality that is just bad. Besides that it broke on 2 parts at the same time it was a kickass Metal guitar from looks, feel and sound.

Posted by: Smells Mar 21 2008, 12:05 AM

eek, well Bad and Good news there, at least it turned out ok and your happy, still want some pics of your new axe!
gratz mate

Posted by: audiopaal Mar 21 2008, 12:11 AM

QUOTE (ZakkWylde @ Mar 21 2008, 12:02 AM)

Posted by: ZakkWylde Mar 21 2008, 12:13 AM

It is all black with anniversary emblems and a rosewood neck. Yes I will deliver the review as soon as possible

Posted by: Trond Vold Mar 21 2008, 12:16 AM

Congrats! .. The RG 20th ann models are great! I want a yellow one

Posted by: audiopaal Mar 21 2008, 01:11 AM

And I want the red one

Posted by: Juan M. Valero Mar 21 2008, 09:27 AM

yeah, congratulations !!!! it's a great guitar I supose you play jazz

Posted by: Goliath Mar 21 2008, 01:59 PM

LOL you buy the dean equivalent of my precious (ESP LTD DV8-R), then it breaks and you buy my woman on the side with whom I cheat on my precious with (Black RG550 20th). The 20th is a great guitar too. It's got a more versatile range on it and the neck is paper thin. My one gripe is the bridge pickup isn't as hot as I like them to be. It's great for the instrumental/ expiramental rock like Satch/Vai, etc. But I really have to dial in the gain to get the highs to cut like I like. Plus I keep 9's on it because I'm keeping it completely stock and I always overcompensate from bends on 9's and on the high E i run off the fret board a lot. But it is an absolutely top flight guitar, you'll be really happy with it. Careful with the straplocks, my neck straplock pulled out of the upper cut away and I had to shim it with a toothpick. I have a DiMarzio Cliplock strap on it right now, but I think I'm going to go back to the stock strap locks so I can use the stock strap w/ it and put the cliplocks on my S470.