Dean Guitars EVO 60

The features have already been well covered, but I note that
the nut is plastic, and I've seen the nut width listed as
1 11/16, but it looks and feels more like 1 5/8 to me.
One of the things I like about the guitar is the nut width.
I also like that the simplicity of 3-way pickup switch,
one volume, one tone. I also like that the guitar is
reasonably light and very comfortable to play. I *also* like that
the guitar has Grover tuners, which are quite solid.

I like to try to play most styles of music except for very heavy stuff. I play the guitar at home in my modest little studio.
I play it through a Roland Cube 30 (with speaker upgraded to a Eminence Delta Demon) and a Vox Valvetronix AD30VT. I've got a bunch of guitars but this is the first with P-90s. I'd describe the sound as throaty and woody, and I like the sound at all pickup positions. It even sounds good for jazz in the neck position with the tone knob turned down to about 3.

I bought the guitar and it was in bad shape when I bought it. The hardware was partly corroded, the pickup selector knob was missing, and the D string tuning key would hit the headstock when turned! Turned out that this tuner was missing a small plastic washer -- it was
easy to see if you looked. I called Grover and they immediately
sent me a few -- good work Grover!

Although I love the look of goldtops, the color of this guitar is
not super attractive -- it is kind of a goldish, greenish, caramelly
color without much sparkle.

The neck is very comfy and it was possible to adjust the bridge
for medium-low action without buzzing.

This guitar is simple and quite solid; it would withstand
live playing. The Grover tuners I like, but the other
hardware is just adequate. On the other hand, it does the
job and I doubt that replacing the bridge, for instance,
by an expensive one would make much difference in the sound
or feel of the guitar. Probably a cheap sensible upgrade
would be to replace the nut.

I'm pretty impressed by Dean's customer support. I like this
guitar so much that I wanted to get a know for the pickup
selector switch, and wanted to replace the bridge because
of the corrosion. I called Dean and they immediately
switched me over to their parts dept., who told me that
they could order the parts I wanted for a reasonable price
(lower than I expected). However, I suspect that their
parts department simply sells parts from a parts supplier --
which are not necessarily the same as the original parts.
I suspect this partly because the pickup selector know
I got did not fit the guitar, nor did the replacement they
sent me.

This guitar is excellent for the price -- it is more than the
sum of its parts. It looks good, it's reasonably light,
it's very comfortable, and it sounds great.
The unbound neck feels really nice -- it reminds me of the
neck on the '65 Gibson Melodymaker I owned for many years.
I've got a bunch of guitars and this is one of my favorites.

Finish -Silver Sparkle, Les Paul shape, Tune-O-Matic, Grover tuners, P-90 pickups

i bought this because i wanted a guitar with P-90's and didn't want to drop the huge bucks for a Hamer, Gibson or Gadow. for the money spent, i was very surprised & pleased with the tone of this guitar.
thru various small watt tube amps this has a nice full bluesy tone with some good bite on the high end. acoustically unplugged, it has that dull tone like a lot of asian import guitars

i bought this used so i can't comment on factory set up. the fit and finish is decent but the clearcoat over the silver sparkle has started to yellow a bit which isn't very flattering

built real solid

never dealt with the company

i've been playing 20 years and own 40 other, mostly USA made guitars. for a budget guitar this is a real gem: great tone, great playability and cool funky looks. if it was lost or stolen i would buy another one without hesitation.

This is a 2002 Korean made model left handed, sort of a Les Paul style, but with the distinctive Dean neck joint; one volume control, one tone control, but that suits me fine, the only problem is that the pots are right handed, so 10 is off 1 is high; not a problem if you get used to it, but I have to deduct a point for not having true lefty hardware, but this is common for less than higher end products. Two P90 pickups, this guitar is the gold finish, very nice! Scale length is like the LP, shorter than the SG I was used to.

I play mostly a Blues/Jazz influenced style, but like to rock it up anytime. Mostly I use this guitar through a vintage Gibson Lab Series L5 amp (ala B.B.King), with a Tubeworks distortion driver and Memory Man delay/chorus in between; can't beat the sound for the solid body blues thing, IMHO; the P90's are just great for the sound. I usually play at sort of low volumes, but played through my Marshall, crank up the volume, and the vintage 60's rock sound come through. I've never experienced the noise problems that others say about the P90's, but then, I've been using them for the last 30+ years, so maybe I just got used to it. I think you can do just about any style with this guitar, except maybe metal, which I don't play. I REALLY like the sound of this guitar, and I don't think any swapping out of pups is necessary.

I bought the guitar new, needed only the usual setting up for personal taste, lowered the action a bit, intonation needed just a little tweaking, the neck is absolutely PERFECT, something I wasn't expecting from an off-shore guitar, the finish is beautiful, no defects anywhere, I think a stunning instrument. No probs with any of the hardware, except that over the last two years the tailpiece has oxidized quite a bit, which is odd in that nothing else has done that. Giving a 9 only because of that one defect.

I've taken this guitar on several gigs as a backup only because I use a Carvin SC90 as my main guitar because of its incredible tone versatility, the Bigsby mounted on it, and that the current band is into a lot of versatility. For a more straight blues thing, the Dean would be my first choice. The hardware and finish are like a rock, and will probably last longer than I will. I would not choose to gig without a backup, but if I had only one guitar, I would be confident with this one.

Never had to deal with the company; don't expect to have to.

I've been playing for over 30 years, played almost entirely Gibsons, the old SG, and a 335. Play all guitars through a Lab Series L5 amp, a vintage Sunn Sentura II, and a valvestate Marshall, depending on the style of music. My preference is a guitar with P90's, this one has them and plays as well as any guitar I've had before, and better than most. I would rate the tone as better than the old SG, plays as well as the Gibson...and go try to find a nice vintage left handed Gibson with P90's that you don't have to mortgage the house for. If someone swiped it I would have to go hunt down another, and I understand that Dean doesn't make them with P90's anymore. The only thing I wish it had was real left handed tone and volume pots, but you can always swap them out; I'll get to it someday. This was a real find!

two P90 pickups
one volume pot
one tone pot
one three way switch

I am a skeptic when it comes to foreign-made guitars but was *very* pleasantly surprised at the sound of this guitar and find myself playing it more often than my "real" Les Paul

The finish on mine is great. It wasn't setup very well from the factory, but after I set the string height & intonation it plays perfect

I would use it live. It looks good, isn't so expensive that I'd worry about people waiting around to rip it off, and it plays plenty well enough for shows. I've never had a performance problem out of it.

never tried

I have been playing on and off for 17 years (I'm 31 and started when I was 14) I currently own Gibsons, Fenders (both USA and Japan), Martin acoustics, Jacksons and Ibanez guitars. I have owned a wide variety of amps/effects/etc. and like to think I can tell the difference between garbage and good gear. As I mentioned before, I am a skeptic, because other than my MIJ strat, I have not been happy with anything that wasn't USA made until I bought the Dean. I bought it because it is about 1/3 the cost of a beat-up used Gibson Les Paul and after playing it, realized that it is only a couple of pickups and a pot away--not a difference worth another $1000 IMHO. I have been happy with this, and someday may put some "better" pickups in it, but so far have been happy enough with the "stock" sound. Because of the price to utility ratio, I have to give this a "10."

03 p90 dean sparkletop in gold :)
single volume an tone control :(
Slanted neck heel for easier high register access :) ++

p90s, sound great, but hum like a mother at high gain, their history.
replaced with a gibson p100 neck, an Dimarzio dp154 bridge

Nice finish, the Gold top ain't gold, its silver sparkle with amber clearcoat :(
Needs real gold flakes.
the fit an finish really are excellent. the actual lay up leaves something to be desired.
now that I pulled the plates and pickups out, I see the Pots are little inky dinky thingys !!!
an the routes for the Pickup wires are HUGE, its insane how huge.
all in all, it fits, it works, an what really counts, it plays great.

its new, what do I know. I always replace the strap buttons with locks.

the mid-range Dean Evos are Smoking TOOLS to make music with.
let your fingers make the music, an leave the status symbols to the collectors.

this guitar is so much fun to play . i truely love it. along with my 4 other deans. i just cant seem to get enough of these eye catching very playable axes. carved maple top / mahogany body great sounding p 90s ( compared to my les paul (gem) studio with p 90s ) black finish, this axe has attitude. what a concept!!!!!!!!! the clean sounds trough a fender twin are heavenly

covers all the bases . i use it through a fender twin reverb. line 6 flextone 2, peavey herritage (back up amp for my pod). i dont think this guitar is as noisy as my paul. very well balanced . and im a major tone freak. if it dont have the tone, leave it at alone . dean really did it with this one ,very retro. no dislikes other than i need more money for more deans.

action is the balls. fat fret lovers you will love the evo 60. fatest frets of all my 13 guitars. the hardest part about playing this guitar is putting it in its case.( put your guitars in their said cases, they like to be cared for) i love this guitars so much i bought it twice. long story. i had traded this guitar for a les paul studio with p 90s . the next day i missed the guitar so much i went back to the dealer and bought it back . mine again at last . to give it a ten, it would have to play all by itself

it will outlast me im afraid all around the finish is very eye appealing . all guitars of this quality should have strap locks . as do all of my guitars . its worth the 10-or 15 bucks. i depend on this guitar to make my world a better one . it does just that it stays in tune very well.. grover tuners do the job

had none. but if your out there dean , i own five deans an evo 60, evo special , icon , exotica bb , and edge 4 bass . and i want a dean cap please. nyuk nyuk if i get a hat in the mail i"ll give them a ten

been playing for 25 years or so 20 on a semi pro level

Mahogany Body with a Maple Cap, Glued in Mahogany neck with a rosewood fingerboard. The neck is a nice C profile, not hugely chunky (like my Epi Explorer) but enough of a handfull to make it comfortable for chording.

Pick-ups are two P-90 type pick-ups (soapbar, not dog-ear).

We have a three way switch and a master volume and tone. Nice and simple, hard to go wrong.

If you havent seen the body shape its kinda a Les Paul style, but more rounded. Mine is finished in "poweder blue" which is a real eye catcher (to say the least.)

I play rock music, but elements of blues, jazz, funk, metal, punk, and whatever else sneak into the mix. This guitar happily covers all those bases (with the exclusion, perhaps of metal). The P90s are punchier in the mid-range and a little higher powered than you'd find with, for example, stock strat pick-ups, which gives them this really raw feel, perfect for raunchy blues and rock, which is where this guitar truely excells, it is an unashamed rock guitar.

Thats not to say it struggles with the other genres I listed. Funk, especially, sounds particuarly satifying when played with the 'in-between' position. Roll off a little on the tone pot and you have a convincing Jazz voice. The Neck pick-up also has a pleasing acoustic character, making clean strumming momenets a pleasure.

My Set-up:
Dean ---> Zoom UF-1 Ultra Fuzz ---> Morley PWO Power Wah ---> Marshall TSL60 (into 1936 212 Cab) --FX Loop--> Morley Crystal Chorus --->Line6 DL4 Delay Modeller

But like i say, in a rock setting, the guitar really comes into its own. The Bridge pick-up, distorted, in a band setting, cuts through without harshness, big riffs and powerchords take on a big dose of authority, and most of all fun. Distorted the neck pickup has a cool hollow sound which lends itself to single note riffs, especially if you tune down into D.

The finish itself was perfect, although the binding is a little messy in places, but to be fair that doesnt bother me one bit, as the guitar gets gigged loads so is almost certain to pick up some nicks here and there. The set-up was great as soon as i bought it, i will probably raise it just a bit as i'm going to put 10s on it in the place of 9s, but with 9s the action's fine.

It hasnt failed me yet. It gigs a fair bit, when i gig i take 2 guitars, my modified Explorer and then eitehr my Strat or the Evo. I have to say i have more faith in my strat, but only sightly, i guess it just has a slightly more 'solid' feel to it, i only say that becuase on occasions my strat (which is my favourite guitar) gets abused a little bit, but i'd never do that to the Evo.

Its more of a feel thing than me actually being worried about the build quality.

I've never dealt directly with Dean, but they seem friendly enough.

I met some of the guys from the UK Distributers, and they were friendly and helpful.

This little guitar belies its price tag, or, more precisely, out-performs a lot of other guitars in this price catagory, not to mention a certain Gibson owned brand *cough*Epi*cough*. This isnt to say that the other guitars about are poor, its just that the Dean is a better than a lot of its competitors (I get the feeling this is true for a lot of Dean's guitars.)

This guitar is a lot of fun to play and sounds great. What more do you want?

Maple top, mahogany body, and neck, with a rosewood fretboard. Nickel hardware, grover tuners. This guitar has two p-90 pickups. The top is a silver metal flake color with large flakes. Les Paul body style, 24 3/4" neck scale. It has one volume and one tone knob.

It has a good sound, but the neck pickup runs over the bridge pickup.

The action is good. The input jack is loose, the tone knob does not work, and it has two finish flaws.

I don't play out, but I don't think this guitar would survive. The finish is already starting to come off on the neck.

It has a five year warranty. I just got the guitar and have not dealt with the warranty issues yet. I will find out tomorrow how good customer support is.

I have been playing for 24 years and this is the first import guitar I've bought, and the last. I would not replace it with another if it were stolen. I chose it because of price and that was a mistake.

Arched Maple Top

Mahogany Body

24-3/4" Scale & 1-11/16" Nut

Grover Tuners

Nickel Hardware

Soap Bar Pickups p-90

Tune-O-Matic Bridge

Set Mahogany Neck

Rosewood Fingerboard

Dot Inlays

Single Ply Binding

22 Frets

This EVO60 was made in Korea

Les Paul style body
Gold color
1 volume
1 tone
1 3way switch

It would be nice to have separate tone and volume controls...
I got it used and I'm not sure of the year. I think it is a 2001 or 2001. The pic on the Dean website in gold is exactly what I have.

This guitar sounds good. I play blues and rock and this guitar fits in well with those styles.
I play through a Mesa-Boogie Studio .20 with a dunlop wah, Ibanez ts-9, ts-7, and an Ibanez CF chorus/flanger. Sometimes a DOD delay.

The pickups sound fairly good. I do notice that if I set the amp for the bridge pickup to sound good the neck seems a bit muddy and if I set the EQ for the neck PU the bridge is too bright. A set of matched after market P-90's could help this.
I do like the sounds it makes when clean with the neck PU, smooth and mellow. It does distort nicely when pushed hard with the lead channel on the Mesa or by using the tube screamers.

This was a used item and it looks brand new. The top has a nice gold and with the soapbars it gives it a vintage look.
The only things I noticed were the action could be a bit lower.
There is a fret buzz on the open A string.
There is a nick on the 15th fret at the B string right where you bend.
As I said this was a used item and this can be expected. A good fret job took care of this, which I do to any guitar that I own.

The neck joint looks good no overspray etc. The neck feels nice, no sharp or protruding frets. I am impressed with the hardware compared to other guitars in it's price range.
The Grover tuners are silky smooth along with the slick nut.

This guitar seems fairly solid. It has a nice heft to it and the body is comfortable to play. The Tune o matic bridge is nice, but is a bit weird the way I rest my hand on it. I find that my hand is right on the saddles and after a while is uncomfortable. That is my style though...not a big deal.
the finish looks good when I polished it, no bubbles or overspray.
I like the strap butons that this comes with.
this is a dependable guitar but I always bring a back up for gigs in case I break a string.

I have not dealt with Dean's support.
Their site says it has a 5 yr warr.

I have been playing for 20 years. I have a '78 Gibson SG; a '96 American Std fender Strat; an '84 Kramer Focus 2000; fender F-210 acoustic and a Peavy P-bass copy.
I bought the Dean becuase of the price. this is basically brand new, no marks or scratches. I lists for 549.00 on Dean's price list and on the web did not see it for less than 400.00 New. For 300.00 I am happy with it.
I would maybe buy another if it was stolen. I would like to check out the Dean Chafin Del Sol (a semi-hollow body electric)with humbuckers. I did get this one because of the price.
I really like the feel of this guitar when it is strapped on it is well balanced and I like the feel of the neck.
I compared this with a Hamer double cut away model with hums, an Epiphone Les Paul and a Hamer es-355 copy. All around 300.00
I liked the Dean the best. I felt the most solid compared to the others.
I would like it to have separate volume and tone controls.

Not sure of the year made. I could probably get that info from Dean. Made in Korea. Grover tuners, 22 frets, mahogany set neck, rosewood fretboard, dot inlays, mahogany body, arched maple top, creme single ply binding (body only), nickel hardware, tune-o-matic bridge, soap bar pickups (yeah!). 3-way PU toggle. 1 Volume and 1 Tone control. This one is a Gold Top and she's a beauty! I give this a 10 on features because it is so elegant in it's simplicity.

This is not my first guitar with soapbars. I had a vintage Les Paul with soapbars back when "vintage" was "new". Unfortunately, after three decades I barely remember what that one sounded like. No matter...this one sounds GREAT! It definitely has that "vintage" vibe to it. Want classic rock? Look no further. Blues? Yeah, it'll do that quite nicely as well. CHUNKACHUNKACHUNKA? Yep! In short, Very versatile sound.

It goes like this: EVO 60=>ZOOM GFX-8=>Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 1X12 with a Boss Metal Zone in the GFX-8 effects loop. Sometimes I play directly into a Marshall AVT20. I've also got a Tech 21 Trademark 10 practice amp. Sounds wonderful through all of them. The neck pickup has a nice, warm, smoky single coil sound. Fuller than my Strat. Mid position...a little more sparkle, a little more bite. Bridge...bell like chime without trebly harshness. Lot's of character throughout. Add some distortion and it won't lose any of it's distinctiveness at all. Of all the guitars I own it's the only one that doesn't muddy up on my effects processor on all of the patches. It's great on palm muting too.

Bought it used. It was set up fine, but when I got it home I threw the Elixir .10's on it, as is my custom with any new axe.

Finish is BEEYOOTEEFUL! That gold sparkle is gorgeous!

The neck/heel join is amazing! Very well designed. You can play all the way up to the 22nd fret without having to pretend you're palming a basketball.

This is actually my second DEAN EVO. My first one is a Special Select with the Tiger Eye quilting. The bridge on the 60 isn't of the same quality as it is on the SS. I don't know if that is due to the time it was manufactured or the quality of the model (the SS cost $100 more). It's still pretty decent. I did have one problem though. The toggle switch snapped off. That could be due to the previous owner though, so I can't really fault Dean. Otherwise, it seems to be a pretty reliable piece of wood and wire.

DEAN is THE BEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD!!!! As I mentioned above, the switch broke on my EVO 60. Dean has a Discussion Page/Bulletin Board (as well as a LIVE chat room) on their website. I posted to the bulletin board asking how and where I could get a new switch. Within fifteens minutes I had three responses from users on line suggesting various dealers to get one. But the clincher came when Elliott Rubinson, the CEO, sent me an email requesting my address so he could send me one! When I offered to pay for it he said not to bother and thanked me for being a Dean player. And I'm not even the original owner! Heck, Dean Zelinsky himself comes on line occassionally to chat and answer questions. Someone logged into the chat room one time and asked what Dean could do to improve their guitars. Turns out it was Elliott! What other CEO takes the time to find out from their players what improvements can be made?

Oh yeah, it's a five year warranty. You register on their website.

Here's the kicker. While I was visiting my local Guitar Center (they're not Dean dealers) I saw this guitar for sale used. Seems someone had traded it in on another guitar. Their price tag was $599. But the list retail price NEW is $549!!! What does that tell you about the quality of these instruments? I spoke with the manager and he was very accomodating and we came to an agreed price.

Dean makes great guitars. They've always been associated with pointy metal machines, but Dean's roots actually trace back to the Gibsons of the sixties and seventies. Dean got his start repairing old and abused Gibsons and realized that he could make a better quality instrument for less money. The "Z", the "V", and yes, even the EVO (although the EVO is a newer addition to the Dean line) harken back to those classics. EVO stands for Evolved from Vintage Origin and it shows. Dean took a good idea and made it great.

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.