NODGD - New Old Dime Guitar Day!

[Brandon Breeze]

Remember that was built back when they made a lot of really cheap licensed Floyd's. Newer guitars have much better trems since the Floyd patent ran out

I may pull this one apart and see if I can get it right, otherwise I may just replace it, either that or my strings havent settled yet, doesnt typically take this long, maybe i got some old strings or something. GHS Boomers usually settle down pretty quick.

Is it a Floyd licensed Washburn made in Germany? I have that on my series one cross and it is great quality.

Chris

Mine is whatever came on the guitar, Washburn 600-S

 

[riffermadness]

I decided to go ahead and order the Dimebag signature pickup set today, I'm sure I'll like them. Can't wait to get them in.

UberKrankenschtein - I have another GTX coming my way. I had totally forgotten about it but my brother had one and offered it to me last night. This one will be a project as it has been refinished a couple times.

I'll weigh the Washburn later tonight.

I used to see those GTX guitars in pawnshops all the time,I didn't know anything about them,so I passed..

 

[GregM]

Mine came from a pawn shop when I was 15 or 16. There was a black and white picture of it in their newspaper ad and I had to have it. Drove a couple hours each way and paid $175 for it.

 

[Brandon Breeze]

Mine came from a pawn shop when I was 15 or 16. There was a black and white picture of it in their newspaper ad and I had to have it. Drove a couple hours each way and paid $175 for it.

Mine was at a pawn shop too, i think I paid close to the same back in the late 90's

 

[Brandon Breeze]

Ok, gonna have to retract my previous statement. The bridge is a Takeuchi Japanese made Floyd licensed bridge. If you compare the picture below to the other one I took earlier above, you can see I had to move some saddles around to intonate the guitar. Whomever "intonated" this guitar last completely messed it up, that's why it was out of tune even right after tuning it. This made the guitar seem like a cheap POS. Now that it's intonated properly it sounds and plays awesome!

 

[Bloodrock]

Cool, glad you got it sorted out. Now all you need is an old L500XL from the 90's and you'll be set.

 

[Brandon Breeze]

Cool, glad you got it sorted out. Now all you need is an old L500XL from the 90's and you'll be set.

That was my thoughts exactly.

On a side note, my Washburn has a partial v neck, it has the v neck carve up until about the 9th fret, then goes round. My Stealth has a full v neck. Also, the Washburn appears to copy the add on Floyd Rose style of dimes original guitar, it sits up really high off the body and looks like it was an afterthought vs my Deans which have the Floyd sitting down in the body nearly flush.

 

[Bloodrock]

Cool, glad you got it sorted out. Now all you need is an old L500XL from the 90's and you'll be set.

That was my thoughts exactly.

On a side note, my Washburn has a partial v neck, it has the v neck carve up until about the 9th fret, then goes round. My Stealth has a full v neck. Also, the Washburn appears to copy the add on Floyd Rose style of dimes original guitar, it sits up really high off the body and looks like it was an afterthought vs my Deans which have the Floyd sitting down in the body nearly flush.

Yeah, the earlier versions of the Washburn Dime 333's had a top mounted Floyd but a big route in the back so you could pull up on the trem like yours. They later switched to a recessed Floyd which was cheaper to make I'd imagine. They also changed the semi-V neck to a C neck later as well. You can tell the earlier versions easily because they had the Washburn pickups with the "W" marked on them. The later pickups were pretty crappy, as was the build of the guitars.

 

[Brandon Breeze]

Definitely not the best pickups in the world, but could be a lot worse. Not quite bright enough for my taste, thinking of trying an L500XL since I never have.



This really looks like Mahogany to me

 

[rottingcorpse]

Bloodrock and myself have seen a lot of these guitars(he is my best bro local,and we have spent a lot of time playing a lot of the dean and washy dime stuff that has came thru our collections).

IMO, the cheap/early import washy dimes(photo-flame bolts,yellow-green "slime" and blackjacks)are pretty junky on both hardware and build quality. But that's nothing compared to the bolt-in import stealths...pass on any of those you might be tempted to score. If you get a chance to score any of the ones built after dime died from either boogie street or funky munky,jump on them like they were a drunken stripper. Those are as close to a USA made Washburn you will ever see. The black boogie bolts with the abalone lightning bolt inlay and the unfinished maple neck are bad ass. The funky munky green "slime" color may not be great,but they are well built. All have the great Shaller Floyd on them. None of them have dimes name on the headstock...funny that they are the best built of the dime imports,right?

The crux of that issue is that during that time Washburn was accused of stamping unfinished imported guitars with the "made in USA" stamp,then sending the body blanks out for paint. They had to have the import builder tighten up the build quality to USA specs so they could be passed off as USA made guitars. That's why there is a huge difference between the early imports and the later ones...and probably the reason dime was getting so pissed about the build quality of the Washburn stuff that both the kids were being sold and the shoddy QA on the stuff he was contractually getting toward the end.