Steel Notes Magazine
January 2017
You just had a guitar come out back a few weeks ago , didn ’ t you ? It ’ s the RC8 but with a different style of graphics on it . Isn ’ t it ? What was it ? You said it was an 8 I believe it ’ s an RC 8 . I just saw it . Because I saw it on Guitar Center and it says available 11 / 4 . It ’ s a new model
Oh ! I haven ’ t seen it . Oh OK It might not be a new model . It might be a that they just now started carrying it . If you have a link for it , I ’ d like to see it Yes , OK ! It ’ s got a nice price tag of $ 2,505.00
Yes , can you send me that link so I can look at it ? Yes , I ’ ll send it
You know what they ’ re making now is RC 6 ’ s which is a smart move because regardless of how you know of the 7 & 8 string guitar more people play a 6-string guitar . I think the innovative idea is to go on to the RC 7 & 8 ’ s . A 6 string should be able to reap those benefits as well . There ’ s a company called Axe Palace that ordered a bunch of custom USA 6 ’ s but the cool thing the thing about Dean is you can call up Dean and have any version of my guitars made . Say you want an RC 7 in hot pink with purple polka dots and green inlays or whatever , they ’ ll build you any version of if you want . A lot of these guitar shops like Drum City and Guitar Land and Axe Palace or what not , they ’ ll call up and they ’ ll have several of their own design configurations . Like we want this kind of wood on the body and this kind of wood on the neck and pickups and tuners . It ’ ll be an RC 7 but it will be built to their choices of wood and paint , pickups and stuff like that so this might be something they put together just for Guitar Center that I haven ’ t seen yet or it ’ s something that Guitar Center hasn ’ t carried and new to them Here it is . It says Xenocide . It says right here available 11 / 4 / 2016 I don ’ t know if it was just out of stock
I don ’ t know . If you can give me the link , copy and paste it to where that text box is I can look at it . I ’ d like to do that . I ’ d like to see what it is because that is a USA priced guitar . Let ’ s see , look here
I don ’ t know if they ’ re out of stock on it or not but that ’ s new
This isn ’ t new but it ’ s new for them . I don ’ t think they carried USA models until this point . So , this is the first version of the RC 7 . This is what the very first RC 7 looked like except for some of the modifications that we made to it . I ’ ve changed some things on the body since then but this basically represents the RC 7 in its truest form and the very first form we ever released . So , they ’ re carrying USA models now , that ’ s cool
They have the lesser expensive models and that ’ s what I was going to ask you . The Dean models that are in the $ 400 , $ 500 , $ 600 $ 700 range , they ’ re made overseas . Do you have any input with the international models that are made in China and Korea ?
Absolutely ! I do because the import models used to be RC 8 models up but they haven ’ t been up until recently . They had a different neck spec on it a different , one of my things that were super important to me was that we got right and they changed factories and everything changed . That doesn ’ t represent what the new imports look like . The new imports look just like the Xenocide up there that ’ s got the sticker price of $ 2505.00 . You can see if you look at the skull model the upper horn is different it ’ s not as thin and that ’ s one of the main things . You can ’ t see the other things I am talking about unless you can see the guitar on the neck . That ’ s cool man . Thank you for making me aware of that
I do know this , sometimes with the imports sometimes you get lucky with some of the wood . Most of the import models are supposed to be made from alder and my USA models all the bodies are mahogany with a maple top or just all mahogany . A couple of students come in with Xenocide ’ s and just by the weight alone I can tell it ’ s not alder you know . So , I think getting an import sometimes you run across something you might not have gotten somewhere else . A good example of that is like Eddie Van Halen ’ s first guitars , the one ’ s he built by himself . He used to get those parts I think from Charvel and he would build great necks and bodies and he didn ’ t know what that meant so he would just take the B
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