Dean Guitars EVO 60

This was made in Korea, 2000. Has 24 frets, one volume knob, one tone knob, and three-way selector. P-90 soap bar pickups, very nice tone. Nody style sort of appears like a Les Paul, beautiful guitar. Tuners are grovers, stay in tune very well. Could use seperate volume and tone knobs, but they work very well anyhow.

I play heavy metal, old school rock (hendrix, cream, and whatnot), and a mix of other stuff. It suits it all very well, a very versatile guitar, on clean it has a warm tone that I love, and with distortion still sounds good. Its not noisy at all except in my sh*tty little amp, but sounds great through anything decent. I like the sound a ton, and one of my friends said I should replace the pickups down the road if I want a more powerful sound, but the tone and the sound i get now is better than his which he put EMG's in.

The guitar actually had an intermittent pick up about the third week I got it, a fluke though, barely happens, and it was fixed in about ten minutes, no problem. The guitar is aligned perfectly no problems at all. Beautiful neck, the playability is incredible.

I havent played with this guitar live, but in a garage it holds up just fine, its taken some falls and whatnot, and held up (thank god) very well. The finish is still as nice as it was the day i bought it.

Never dealt with Dean first hand, only problem I had with it I took ti to where I got, and they fixed it no prob.

Overall it was my first electric, I had learned on an acoustic, and I'm very pleased with this. I have no regrets buying this guitar at all, if it were stolen or lost I would buy another Dean. I love the color (silver sparkle), I love the playability, and the tone for the price. The only thing I don't like is the 2 knobs, but it doesn't hold back the guitar from its potential sound. I was looking for a les paul, but didn't want to spend the money, this was very well worth it.

I was a little bit skeptical about Dean guitars because of the exotic body styles I had seen before and I was intrigued by the body style of the EVO 60. I have always loved Gibson 57 Les Paul reissues so I decided that I would give this thing a try. I was blown away from the first chord. 22 frets, Solid Top with custom 24k gold finish, 3 way selector with 2 P90 soapbars. The woods are absolutely amazing. What really floored me though was the fact that when I inspected the pickup cavity I found a long heel tennon. Normally you'll only find this on a Gibson Les Paul Reissue or Custom Shop. This guitar has so many great features it's hard to pinpoint the best.

I was already impressed with the P90 soapbars that came stock in this bad boy. They had a real vintage vibe going on. Great for playing classic rock and some of new stuff that's not so heavy. Well that's not really my forte. I'm into Godsmack and hard rock so I replaced the bridge pickup with a Seymour Duncan Custom. If you think the original pickup sounded good in this machine... man!!! The tone will kick you dead in the ass and beg for some more when the bridge is selected but in the neck position it proves why playing guitar is like sex... the soft licks make the women squeal! Great clean tone at the neck. Changing the pickup out made the guitar 100 times more versatile than it already was because of the "Tele" sound it created in the mid position. I highly recommend this axe as a main stage guitar! Hell... it's what I use!

The guitar was extremely well set up right out of the box. Action plays like butter and the pickups were at just the right height. There were absolutely no flaws from what I can tell and even if there were any I wouldn't care... this guitar sounds and plays that damn good!

This guitar is my main guitar that I gig out with. I've been simulating the aging process on it just like some "Murphy's" I've seen out there in the les paul forums. It doesn't matter what you do to this axe it keeps taking it and asking for more. I will use this guitar for as long as it lasts. I'll probably retire before it will.

Customer Support from Dean is absolutely excellent. They really went out of their way to assure a quality product on not only my guitar but several of my friends who I've convinced to buy Dean models also.

I've been playing for over 7 years and this guitar is probably the one piece of gear I couldn't live without if I had to play out live for a living. I have a Washburn N4 and a Dean EVO Special Select but they just don't compare to this one. If it was ever stolen, I would have to hunt down the person that did it and make them listen to Sum 41 for 8 hours at a time to get it back. It's definitely irreplaceable. This may seem hard to believe but I have a friend that has a Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 and he prefers playing my Dean EVO 60 to his PRS because of the tone. Now if a seasoned player will choose a Dean over a PRS that tells me that someone is doing something right in Dean's workshop!

Don't know what year it was made, but it's from Korea. Despite the reputation the Far East has aquired for manufacturing, it's excellently put together. Couple of minor blemishes though. 22 fret rosewood fingerboard inlaid with real abalone - looks great. The neck is made from maple. It's a mahogany body with arched mahogany top. 1 volume and 1 tone - but that's all you need really because pickups are S/S Soap Bars.
Mine is finished in the most insane stunning metallic silver. I've never seen a better looking guitar in my life.
Bridge is Tune-O-Matic, tuners are Grovers. They've got nice motion actually - slide smoothly but stay put.
Came with a cable. although I wouldn't gig with it - definitely too flimsy. Still, for a first guitar it does do the job.

My style is very flexible, but the Dean doesn't disappoint. It's a vintage type guitar, so it sounds great on that. However, it can still sound good on distortion. Doesn't scream like some guitars - very mellow sound, but still has fairly powerful treble.
Neck pickup is maybe a little lacking, possibly an upgrade to a humbucjer if you really had the money. You'd risk upsetting the tone though, which is really great - lots of character, doesn't sound like naything else I've played. Bridge pickup is so punchy it could take out Tyson in 3 rounds. Looks big too.
Love the character of the sound. Maybe the treble could be pushed up, but have to admit I'm using my PC soundcard. An amp EQ would fix it.

Action is OK, but a little off on the 6th string because of neck setup. Any guitar repairer could fix it though.
Quality is top notch - 1 cosmetic blemish on head from factory, everything else was pristine.

Um. Don't play live much, but I'd say this would stand up to it. Finish is hard to judge, but it's uneven by design so it'd probably be fine. I'd depend on it, but I don't have much choice.

5 year warranty for all Dean owners - not bad. Can't say how good it is htough.

I've been playing for 9/10 years now on an accoustic which stood up to a total of 30 years wear and tear. I played a good 50 guitars before I finally chose the Dean - it stands out form everything else i've played. I played it for 45 minutes bofre I chose it, and still loved it.
If someone stole this I'd cry. Then I'd get another with the insuarance money.
I love the finish, I love the sound. It'd be nice to have a custom fit case, but it's a fairly standard shape anyway. For this price and as a first electric, I'd reccomend it to anybody.

nice set neck,rosewood fretboard,two soapbar pickups, beautiful silver sparkle finish

very quiet, no hum,beefy tone on bridge, strat tone on neck, but only has three way selector

great action, very similar to a les paul,beatiful color but a nice run in the paint on the top

couldn't ask for more in this price range

5 year warranty, but never had to deal with the customer support

2000 Dean: friendly made but our Korean friends!!!
Dean EVO 60?s Set Maple Neck, Chrome Grover Tuners, Soap Bar Pickups P-90,Tune-O-Matic Bridge, Mahogany Body with Arched Mahogany Top, Rosewood Fingerboard, Single Ply Binding, Abalone Dot Inlays 22 Frets, Color silver sparkle. Abalone Dean logo and Dean symble inlayd into the headstock: very nice done. The neck is more than super nice, it is not like any fat Gibson neck, Mr.Dean this time smarted everybody-out creating the "Smart-Neck" Excellent job!
The guitar is pretty much like any other single cut way, but this Dean has more personality: remember that EVO stands for Evolved from Vintage Origins. Perhaps two volumes and two tones knobs would have be slightly better!

This guitar has tones of sounds, I can have a crystal Tele-like soiund with more bite to it, or a nice P-90 dirty Bluesy sound. I play it through a tube Peavey Classic 30 Watts and it sounds perfectly fine. Creamy sound, but at the same time crystal and clear, it gets muddier with a nice distortion.
The guitar is very silent I would say except when I use my high gain distortion, but I do not have any squeal back! That's good, it means that the guitar was well screened. The silver sparkle color is quite nice indeed, even though I would have preferred a Gold top!

The manufacture set up was aweful, without even mentioning the 009 strings that came with it: I hate them. I replace them right away with Fender 350's 011, and now this darlin' can sing the blues! For the most part the guitar is made pretty well except for some sparkles that flew in the back under the black paint!

I did not try it live yet, but I do not see why it could not stand it on its own. I replace the very nice strap button with Shaller strap-lock, I like to feel safe when I play! I hate breaking necks (even though I never did) Thanks Mr.Shaller (-:
The guitar is slightly heavier than a Fender Strat.
The hardware seems to be like any other used by Dillion, Epiphone and Samick guitars!
I would never use anything without a back up!

I do not know! I did register the guitar at the Dean site though!

I own several guitars now, and this one is one of my favorite, it looks awesome and most important it sounds incredible!!
This is the second time that I purchase a guitar from Victor Music Exchange. Victor himself is the one who deals with the sales, he is nice, honest and reliable: please visit him in Quakertown PA, or go to:
http://www.victormusicexchange.com/

dean evo-ft, 2000 model, made in korea along with virtually every guitar made. it is a mohogany body(les paul) with a mohogany set neck. has grover vintage style chrome tuning key, two dean humbuckers(i believe that they are duncan designed)that are zebra striped with a les paul style three way toggle switch and a coil tap, which i thought was a cool addition. i have a amburburst flame top, tunamatic bridge with stop tailpiece, and one volume and tone, both vintage speed knobs. this is deans very good version of a les paul, if you ask me it would be similar to a les paul studio sl, because it has a contoured back which is comfortable.

i love kiss, black label society, black sabbath, up to the deftones, pantera, and 70's stuff(anything that rocks). i am using a peavey transtube bandit, ibanez smashbox, danelectro fabtone, ibanez tubescreamer, dunlop crybaby, eq pedal, and a zoom player 2100 for effects. the guitar is quiet, unless you use the coil tap to split the humbucker, i has a full sound, sounds just as good if not better than most les pauls or strats. with the coil tap you can get a variety of sounds, depends on your preferences. i love this guitar and want another one.

action is hard to rate because of personal preference, but the guitar was set up great i did have to put some 9-42's on it and lower the action to my liking, the pickups were fine for me, everything looked good other than a little to much paint where the neck hooks to the body, doesn't bother me a bit. little glue residue on the frets around the 17th fret, came off fine. the toggle switches are solid as are the strap buttons and the rest of the hardware.

this guitar will definetely withstand live gigs, every looks like it will last a long time. the finish is marvelous and looks like it will never come off of there, the strap buttons are solid, and i will gig without a backup and if i did need a backup it would be another one like this.

they're great, this is my 3rd dean, if i didn't like or trust them i wouldn't have bought this guitar. i bought this guitar without even trying it out, there was no point, dean is the company of the millinium, those overpriced gibson and fender companys better look out, cause this is awesome quality and a awesome price.

i have been playing for 11 years, i have owned everything from american strats, gibsons, to charvels and epiphone les pauls. if it were stolen i'd by another one right now. i love that it looks and sounds good.( i am a les paul fanatic). my favorite feature is the coil tap and that it puts a new twist on a classic design. if you guys can afford a epiphone les paul wake up and try and evo or any dean, they'll smoke anything out there on the market. i had a epi les paul standard, this thing smokes it. third dean and have played on almost everything they have. hell i wish they would let me be and endorsee.

According to Dean, the EVO 60 is a mahogany bodied guitar, with a 24-3/4" set maple neck with a rosewood board, Tune-O-Matic bridge with stop tail piece, and 2 P-90 style pickups. Also, single volume, single tone, and a three way switch.
Korean built.
Mine is the basic black model.
Came in a deluxe cardboard box, included a guitar cable and truss-rod wrench.

Not a tone of features, but one worth mentioning is the body/neck joint. Unlike Gibsons, PRS and the like, the EVO joins the body in a uniques way: The EVO body is a single cut guitar. Imagine that the upper body is one flowing curve, rather than stepped to accomodate the neck joint - that is what Dean has done.
While my description pretty much sucks, this is one of the coolest takes on a set neck that I have ever seen.

The neck P-90 is wonderful, creamy with a bit of a bite, sounds great distorted.
The bridge pickup matches it well, but I am still tweaking the pickup height to see if I can find it's sweet spot.
In combination, the sound is kind of "thick Tele on steroids" meets classic rock - also great sounding.

OK, here's where the reality of a Korean built guitar comes into play:
While these are minor complaints, they are all worth mentioning.
1) I always clean and polish any new guitar, including cleaning the fret-board with Dunlop cleaner and then applying their revitalizer. I suspect that they have died the rosewood board to a uniform black - which the cleaning process is removing. While some folks may like the look of died rosewood, I am not one of them. Give me rosewood - warts and all. On the flip side, the inlay work is superior to many Korean guitars that I have seen (think Epiphone).
2) While the bridge and tailpiece work, and look sound - they both look a bit on the cheap side. Once again, not surprising in a guitar in this price range.

Other than these two concerns, the guitar appears to be very well built, and solid.
The setup from the factory was a tad low, but the fret work is very good, and the guitar was playable right out of the box.

Seems very solid, I could gig without a backup.
I wouldn't as this guitar is definitely more of a bluesy-jazzy kind of tonality, and I have other guitars that I would use for more rocky or country type of sounds.

Don't know, I haven't had to deal with them yet.

I would like to suggest to them building an EVO 60 with a figured maple top, at their European built level. Those guitars look sweet.

I have been playing for 35 years.
The EVO 60 is a "fill in a need" guitar - I wanted something with P90's that:
1) didn't sound lifeless (I tried both a Godin and Yamaha guitar that just do it for me).
2) didn't bust the checkbook. I am in love with the Guild Bluesbird with P-90's. For my money, this guitar smokes any new P-90 equipped guitar, including the PRS and Gibson offerings. But they are over a grand, and that is more than what I wanted to pay for what I wanted.

The EVO 60 - taken as a whole, is a very comfortable, great sounding guitar. It compares favorably to my reference guitar, as well as costing a lot less. As a local dealer told me, "Dean guitars present a real value just because they are offering significantly better than average construction and performance, at a better price, than many of the larger manufacturers?

Quick review of this guitar, which I purchased and then took back the next day. It's a Les Paul-style guitar, single cutaway with carved top. Website claims it's a mahogany body. Two P-90 pickups. Rosewood neck with very nice circular dot inlays that appear to be abalone or a close approximation. Grover tuners. Medium jumbo frets. One volume and one tone control. My model had the gold top. Nice headstock with nice Dean logo.
I fell in love with this guitar immediately. I already own an Epiphone Les Paul 56 Goldtop, and I played them side by side. The Dean definitely had better tone. The pickups are very balanced, the bridge is not too trebly and the neck is not to bassy. Both on they sounded full and round. Nice. I got this guitar on sale for $330 on a clearance sale.
I loved everything about it except this one thing, which I didn't discover until I got home that night. Shame on me, as a guitar player, for not noticing this, too: The width of the neck is VERY thin. Uncomfortably so. This is the only thing that held me back from keeping it, and I just couldn't play it comfortably. Especially any kind of finger picking stuff was way too hard to do.
It's really too bad. I don't know why they do their necks this way (I checked other Dean electrics: same thing). If you're a guitar player with small hands, or a girl, this might be the guitar for you. For a nice P-90 equipped guitar, that sounds really great, it's a steal. Just play it first!

This updates my earlier review. I received an email from the Dean Guitar company, and they informed me that this guitar was made in a smaller facility in Korea rather than the Mega Samick factory. The reason for this is greater quality control. This has thus far born itself out, in that my guitar is exceptionally tight and clean.

I was really pleased to see that Dean was concerned about the customer's opinion. They have also given me more information and answered some more of my questions. Good service. Glad I bought it.

Bought this new in December 1999. I believe that this like so many other imports was probably made in the same Samick factory in Korea by our crafty asian friends. This guitar has 22 jumbo frets on a rosewood fretboard. The body is one piece of mahogany (yeah, really), it may have a maple top but I can't tell because mine has a gold top and creme binding. The neck is 2, or maybe three piece mahogany laminate. The body is shaped somewhere in between a les paul and a yamaha weddington (remember those?). It has a nice carved top. The 2 pickups are P-90 style single coils. Tuners are grovers. The position markers and headstock inlays look like honest to god abalone. It has a stop bar tail piece. One master volume, and one master tone. Where the neck joins the body (set neck), it is really deeply cutaway, thus allowing easier access to the higher frets.

This guitar is really well suited for blues, rockabilly, and golden and silver era rock. The look matches the sound vibe. The pickups are nice and fat. They are bright, but not as bright as a strat or a tele. Have not had any microphonic problems. It sounds alot like a les paul junior, except the pickups sound like they are wired sound when both are engaged, you get sort of an "in between" out of phase strat sound, only fatter. This is what I really like. I play this through a Fender Blues Deluxe (nice match). I also use a Line 6 POD (also sounds good). I don't really use this for metal (I also no longer have acne), but I believe it would work for somebody look for some variety. I really like the sound.

The set up was pretty good. I fooled with it after I got it home (action, intonation) but it really did not need too much work. The fret work is good. Finish is thick polyurethane. The only gripe is a small bit of overspray on the neck. However, I didn't even notice it for a week (can't be too bad). Neck is smooth. However, I would prefer a little more satiny finish on the neck, but this guitar is sort of retro, and satin finish is not.

I have only had this for a few weeks, but it seems ok. I still would have a backup, but who doesn't break strings.

I emailed the company to ask about the specs, and I received a prompt reply, but not much in the way of detailed information. They say they have a 5 year warranty. I don't know if it is any good.

I have been playing for 14 years. I have a Fender Blues Deluxe amplifier, a heavily modified tele, a Line 6 POD, ebow, picks, strings and cords. I like the guitar. It feels, sounds and looks good. It is not the end all and be all of guitars, but then it doesn't cost too much either. I would buy it again if it were stolen. I compared this to a Reverend Slingshot, a Hammer with P-90s, a Les Paul Junior, and a Danelectro Hodad. This played and sounded better than all of the above, and cost less than all but the Danelectro.