Dean Vendetta Guitar, XM with Tremelo
- Paulownia body with natural finish and bolt-on construction
- 25.5-inch scale, 24-fret maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and dot inlays
- Dual Dean humbuckers with volume and tone controls, three-way toggle
- Dean vintage tremolo bridge
- Dean diecast tuning machines
Product Description
Dean’s Vendetta XM offers the budget-conscious a solid Vendetta option, with a bolt-on neck, a pair of Dean humbuckers, Dean diecast tuning machines, and a vintage tremolo bridge.
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Vendetta XM at a Glance
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Vintage tremolo bridge, Dean humbuckers. |
Dean diecast tuners. |
The Dean Vendetta Series
With four models to choose from, the Vendettas have string-through-body design, classic Dean V Ferrule pattern, dual Humbuckers, a 25.5-inch scale, and solid mahogany bodies with a maple neck. The Vendetta 1.0 and 2.0 are bolt-on models with black hardware. The 2.0 model features a solid flame maple top. The Vendetta 3.0 and 4.0 sport neck-through construction with the Pearl Evil Eye inlay running the length of the fretboard. The 4.0 version has a beautiful quilted maple top and is available in an all too popular “Tiger Eye” finish.
Paulownia Body
Paulownia is an increasingly popular substitute for mahogany in more affordable guitar models. It’s a fast-growing, hearty tree native to Japan and Southeast Asia, and has traditionally been used for Asian string instruments.
As a lightweight, porous body wood, Paulownia is somewhat similar to swamp ash in its sonic signature: very resonant, with plenty of chime and a nice, tight low-end.
Bolt-On Construction
The Vendetta XM uses bolt-on construction, an affordable alternative to set-neck or thru-body designs. The advantage of this design is that if you do have any neck trouble down the line, you can easily replace it.
The maple neck features an ultra-playable 24-fret rosewood fingerboard, with classic dot inlays.
Dean Humbucker Pickups
To capture the biting tones of vintage Deans, the company includes two humbuckers. These pickups should provide more than enough bite for modern styles, along with plenty of low-end and midrange definition. The standard three-way selector allows bridge, neck, or a combination, and volume and tone controls are provided.
Dean Diecast Tuners
Dean’s sealed diecast tuners offer solid tuning and mechanics, for a long lifetime of dependable performance.
Vintage Tremolo Bridge
Add a little flavor to your playing, from subtle vibrato to full-on dive bombs.
June 16th, 2010 at 10:34 am
I do own this very guitar/ but in transparent black, like the red one, you can see the wood-grain, it,s just not as pronounced. I recomend you have the guitar ‘set-up’ by the seller, and don’t let’em tell you it’ll cost more, any decent guitar-shop will do a ‘set-up’ just for buying the guitar. First off, it sounds way better than my ‘Fender Stratacaster’, and I’m not talking about the cheap ‘Fender Squire’. It sounds great clean or distorted. The clean sound is an almost perfect accoustic sound. The pick-ups sound so good I have no intentions of changing them, but I did up-grade the volume & tone pots after a while, cost was about 10.00. The stock volume & tone pots are very good, I just thought for 10 bones what the heck, and they did make a difference, the stock strings are good, but when it was time to replace, holy-cow, what difference, I should have done it the first day. It’s very light, but has good balance, and the sustain is awsome. Again, the tones are great as long as I don’t use the tremalow or ‘wammy-bar’.
As soon as you use the wammy-bar it goes out of tune pretty quickly. I’ve had mine for about 6 months and I know I made the right choice for this price-range. I looked at the Jacksons & Ibanez’s in this price range, both are great guitars, but are only 22fret guitars, this Dean is a full-size 24 fret guitar, and my final reason for choosing over the others. I hope this review was helpful, Dave
Rating: 4 / 5