Dillion DL750

DL750
Single cutaway
Set Neck
H/H
String Through
Mahogany Body

It's simple, just the way I like it.

These guitars aren't known for use in Metal, but they should be.
The stock pickups are really hot, but I chose to swap them for EMG 81/85. This guitar has a very warm and full tone, I can pretty much make it do what ever I want. Oh yeah I almost forgot, sustain for DAAAAAAAAYYYYYSSSSS!!!

This guitar played perfect from day one. After spending a week locked in my house playing endless hours of every riff lick and song I know, I finally let a friend come over and try it out. His first response: "It plays itself". Needless to say he now has his own Dillion. You could drop this thing off a bridge and it would be still be in tune.
The finish was flawless, though now it has it's battle scars.

This guitar is as bullet proof as they come. I've put it through some serious abuse and it has never let me down.

John Dillion is very friendly, helpful and always more than happy to answer questions. It's nice to deal with a company that is this size, you send an email and you get a response straight from the company owner. Dillion Guitars will be my brand forever, I've found an amazing guitar at a great price, with amazing customer support.

I've been playing for over 11 years and this is by far the best guitar I've ever put my hands on. My only complaint is that I don't have a room full of them. I've tried a few different models and the results have all been the same, nothing short of AMAZING!!!
If whoever reads this has not tried one I suggest you get off your butt and do it. NOW!!! GO!!! RUN!!! FIND ONE!!! PLAY IT!!! BUY IT!!!

See the website for the specs -- I can't ever keep them straight anyway, and would hate to attribute something wrong.

I play through a marshal half stack using simply clean, dirty, and lead channels. The fact that the guitar is strung through the body gives me some UNGODLY sustain! The signle coils, like all single coils, can feed back a little if you let them, but the incredibly ballsy sound through dirt and the lyrical, melodic tone through clean are more than worth any minor annoyance associated with pick up configuration.

Quite frankly, this guitar is a fantastic magic bullet. It's definitely the most versatile guitar I've ever seen, with a fretboard like glass if you just have to shred, yet it's also most lovely for slide guitar -- which is kind of my specialty.

If there is a dislike to it, it's that I only own one right now. But I can fix that...

It's the best guitar I've ever seen come straight from the factory. I didn't change a thing. Part of that is because I'm a lousy guitar tech; ppart of that is that I was very happy with what i saw, felt, heard, and played.

I've only had it for about three months, but I have been playing it live quite a bit. The guitar is solid, well made, and should withstand almost any normal punishment club gigging can dish out. In fact, the only reason i take a back up any more is because I have a tendency to fram my strings, so I'm likely to break one or two a night. But again, that's my fault; not the guitar's.
In short, yes, i would trust it alone, yes I firmly believe it will last from finish to machine head screws, yes I can and do depend on it, and yes I would and have used it on a gig without a backup.

I haven't needed to repair it, so that's good. But in corresponding with the owner of the company and creator of the guitar, John Dillion, I've found him to be courteous, prompt in responding to e mails, and genuinely open to suggestion and willing to answer questions. I can't imagine having a bad experience with the company on any legitimate situation.

On the other hand, whining, swindling a**holes need not apply, to the Dillion company or to anyone else, for that matter.

I am a professional writer and working musician living and working on the Southeast Coast. I have played hundreds of guitars over the years, from Hendrix owned Stratocasters, vintage Pauls, Gretches, Danelectro and newer PRS, Ibenez, and Parker Fly models, to name a few. All of them, in their own way, are great guitars.
But my Dillion is, quite frankly and honestly, the BEST guitar I've ever played. The workmanship, action, sound, aesthetics, and versatility just blow me away every time I pick it up.
Now bear in mind that this guitar is my end all be all -- it works for me, as though it was made for my hand, my feel, my style. Will it work for anyone else? I can't imagine not, but people are different. I love this guitar and from here on out will never play another, at least not willingly. But I would never tell anyone not to look at anything else. Ultimately, it's up to the individual, and we all know that.
But for what you get for the sheer dollar value, I would have to say this one blows the doors off every other guitar in the same price range.
My ultimate advice? Check it out; give it a try; don't be lulled into thinking a multi-thousand dollar "Big Name" guitar is better because of what's written on the headstock. And don't think vintage is the end all be all, either. Ten years ago, vintage wa known by another synonym: "Junk."
And since most of us are playing in dark, smokey, drunken pinhead filled clubs, why on earth would you want to take a guitar that cost more than your car to a place like that, anyway?

I don't want an objet d'art with strings; I want a workhorse axe I trust and don't mind taking into dark and scurvy places.