BTMN Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 DBraz is in the area and arranged to stop by today. Always cool to get together with a new HFC guy. If some of you out there had burning ears today we might have been talking about you. In a Good way of course ya know. We drove over to Tampa and met up with Mathman and Thorn and went on a tour at Dean Guitars factory. Pat Baker head of Dean's USA Custom shop took us through the place for an extended 3 hour tour. I love some Hamers but the Dean guys are so into the guitars as much as Mike Shishkov and many of the other guys that have built all the great Hamers and I so love it's a hometown brand. Being lucky enough they are a hometown brand and liked enough by them to invade the work day there, I was glad I could take our guys there and get a personal tour of all the details. Can't speak for Mathman and Dbraz but Thorn was tempted by a couple and there is a trio of Vintage Deans in that building that need to be MINE!!!! I took no photos even though I had a camera in my pocket. I will let the others chime in with some shots. They took a bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biz Prof Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 See any shrimp forks, Gene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTMN Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 In several shades and stages of build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathman Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I am a Hamer guy through and through, but I was totally impressed with what I saw there today. I was jonesing to play lots of them in their showroom. Saw some beautiful and well designed and setup guitars while there. Really impressed by some of their import line also. I'll post some pictures in a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathman Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Great to meet you Dbraz, and of course seeing Gene and Thorn again. Here is Pat showing off some of his custom shop work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTMN Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 That is Pat Baker. Nice shot of Eliott Easton's one off Dean from back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 It was a real pleasure having a guided tour from the head of their Custom Shop. Some of the stuff they are building is GREAT including some secret artist guitars. My huge thanks to Gene for organising the day. Great to meet Mathman and see Michael again. I also played pretty much ALL of Gene’s great Hamer collection and his awesome Shishkov Ultimate. What Gene doesn’t say above is that he is very well respected in their factory. The owner was asking him out to lunch and many factory guys referred to him by name. Pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Dimebags design ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathman Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I guess the way I worded the post it would appear that the photo is of dbraz. Not my intent. My only photo of him was a bit blurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Damn...just reading Gene’s initai post makes me want to buy a new Dean.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Ok, be warned I have PLENTY of photos. Here goes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 New neck, new necks, double guitar with routing for fasteners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Double guitar, mini Kiss rock band, neck build storage, BTMN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Production guitars mid build, more showing necks attached but pre finishing, a custom shop guitar build in progress, a Mustaine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Choice wood for custom shop order, fretboards galore, patent pending run guitars mid progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ting Ho Dung Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 All I can say is we were all standing next to the serial number stamping thing and I was listening to Pat but looking around. Looking at necks and fret wire. Wood. Wood dust. All this stuff that was so cool. And Pat is very passionate about what he does. And very expressive. He's a wonderful person with great skills and talent. So with me listening to Pat and looking around at so many things that are remarkable pieces of the puzzle that we enjoy as a guitar, and I belt out, "Tits!" I'm embarrassed and so immediately turn to the person on my right and say, "Tits." To which he replied, "I already seen them." I'm not going to name the person because he may not want me to. But you have a 33% guess. Because it wasn't Pat. He was just wondering what was going on in the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Body top press with radio frequencies for perfect even gluing, URI Roth neck among wood pieces, cool inlays, double neck V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortious Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 23 minutes ago, Jakeboy said: Damn...just reading Gene’s initai post makes me want to buy a new Dean.... #MeToo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBraz Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Neck being worked on by a very talented luthier in the custom shop, various artist guitars on the wall, the large factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortious Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Who owns the company now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ting Ho Dung Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, Tortious said: Who owns the company now? A guy in a really fast frickin' car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTMN Posted June 2, 2018 Author Share Posted June 2, 2018 Evan Rubinson is head of Armadillo music the company he inherited last year from his father. Class guy with education in business and a Lambo by the front door. Got his taste for cars from dad too. Great photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Man, i had no idea you guys were meeting up. I would have come. Looks like it was a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathman Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 A few more that are different from DBraz. We took a lot of the same pictures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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