It is now a great guitar - that's right I absolutely love that Chestnut body - extremely resonant w/ amazing tone. I have the DS-100, Strat, since modded with Biltoft PUs and a Fender neck. Make sure you check the body woods as well as the other specs. Some of the PRS copies are made of solid maple and some Strats and LP's made of chestnut (blasphemous, I say), among others. Some have strange body woods (especially the lesser expensive ones). Not sure which model your looking at, but I figure the neck/action problem with my guitar isn't a standard thing (mine was made in 2004 so I suppose it had been sitting around for quite a while).īe careful when buying Dillions. The PU's do leave something to be desired, its like the signal is being choked, held down, flattened, constricted, or whatever type of description. I'm thinking once I tweak the action, and put in some new PU's, it'll be fine, perfectly what I wanted. Its also because of the neck radius, I've been using the tele's convex fretboard and the flat board took a bit of getting used to, but the low e-string still has probs. The action on the Dillion bothered me when I first picked up the guitar, but it feels OK now after 2 days - the action is about 1.7mm, the A-string is higher because of the e-string buzz and the fixed bridge saddle. I'm comparing this all to the telecaster I've been using, which is set up perfectly. The high e-string seems to fret out during bends If I don't set the action up higher. But the low e-string has some buzz issues when I fret it at the very high and very low registers. Its fine, its within acceptable standards. Some probs with my guitar - I'm gonna try to give it some neck relief and tweak a bit. The knobs spin easily, the selector switch is comfortable and easily changable during play.

The neck is U/C shaped (very much like my telecaster). The body size is like a fender, if it was double cutaway. The headstock is small and at first glance it does indeed have a somewhat 'toyish' appearance (would like a lot nicer with a larger headstock, but inlay is nice). The bridge is not intonatable (but the intonation is perfect). The reviews are true, the guys who say the PU's are hot are right, it distorts fairly easily.

I've been playing the guitar fairly non-stop since I got it. The email guy had some rarer colors and stuff. i bought mine from Juniors, but Rich gave me the best price (but had the worst color).

There are 3 vendors - Rich at Detourms, a guy who has no website (email to get in touch with him, he has a large stock of dillions), and Juniors music suppy. Red or deluxe sunburst with flame maple top.Hey there, I just bought a Dillion DR450 (without trying it) - paid $525 including HS case and shipping. With 3 min hums and fixed bridge in 2 tone SBĢ full size hums and Floyd Rose in black.

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