These Dimebag Guitars NEVER Show Up - Washburn D3 Dimebolt (Setup & Review)

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0:00 - Intro
1:42 - Issues
5:18 - On The Bench, Setup, & Quirks
15:24 - Overview
18:40 - Specs
22:31 - Rhythm Tone
23:28 - Clean Tone
24:11 - Midgain Tone
24:48 - Lead Tone
25:36 - Outro & Final Thoughts
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[@TreyShreddings]

I’ve just accepted the fact I’ll never be able to afford one of these, I remember in 2007 when these guitars were 3-4K and I thought they were expensive then. Seeing some of the prices now makes me cringe. Nice look into what some of us will never be able to even hold in our hands! Peace man!

[@mrjoe9308]

The best is to put a ground in each pickups cavity like on all good Japanese guitars. ESP, Jackson made in Japan... My Mexican Jackson had those kind of ground issues but less than in your video.

[@aidab7258]

Prabu makes these imports quite well. I forget his last name but, he is overseas and does a fantastic job. Their not even that pricey. looking at $1200 plus shipping.

[@vincemcman4086]

Get a USA Dean., They are made better. Plain and simple. You can tell from the videos

[@aidab7258]

@@vincemcman4086 they thousands of dollars. In fact, many imports sound better tone wise. I have a Korean Dime Dean Stealth that plays very well, and actually has a warmer tone that I really like. You do not need to purchase a USA Dean to have a really great guitar.

[@user-bb4uj4ih6b]

A 98?! Dude that is a killer guitar. The Dimebolt are one of my favorite Washburns other than the Dime Slime and the Rebel guitars. Killer video man!

[@EricMorettin]

@@user-bb4uj4ih6b thank you! It plays and sounds as killer as it looks 🤘

[@brandonjackson5865]

The Washburn Slimes were my favorite.

[@EricMorettin]

@@brandonjackson5865 those are some of my faves

[@aidab7258]

sounds incredible. Killer chrome XL find!! I just love these models. They look so cool.

[@EricMorettin]

@@aidab7258 thanks! I found the pickup a while back and I knew it was going to be put into something special, so here we are! Love the look

[@troyskinnard1393]

Such a beautiful Dime piece

[@EricMorettin]

@@troyskinnard1393 thanks! Literally have been hunting this one down for ages

[@MT_800]

I literally exclaimed YESSS when I saw this in my feed. Awesome guitar Eric🤘. That grounding issue does remind me of Dime's old Slimebolt Stealth. RIP that guitar lol.

[@EricMorettin]

@@MT_800 thanks! Yeah these were pretty rough regarding the grounding issues. Not sure what happened when the wiring came into question but a noise gate will solve the issues if you keep these stock

[@philfrank5601]

The Stealths also had this same grounding issue?

[@samronjude]

Great video bro, thanks

[@EricMorettin]

@@samronjude thanks 🙏

[@kevorka]

Definitely sick!

[@EricMorettin]

@@kevorka 🤘🤘

[@birminghamspidey3352]

I love just watching u play

[@EricMorettin]

@@birminghamspidey3352 thank you 🤘

[@DFlores2009]

My favorite dime guitar ever❤

[@EricMorettin]

@@DFlores2009 🤘🤘🤘

[@JB55277]

Very Sic! Congrats. Best finish imo for the Washburns!

[@EricMorettin]

@@JB55277 thanks! Yeah this is absolutely stunning in person

[@thieveryguitars6206]

I always liked the Washburn ones a little better than the deans. Nice find!

[@EricMorettin]

Thanks! Would love to compare a USA washburn and dean back to back

[@KaddysJamKave]

Nice job with those squeals man! Haha love it. Bloody beautiful guitar man... I'm friggin jealous :D

[@EricMorettin]

@@KaddysJamKave thanks 🤘🤘

[@scottdahlberg4890]

Copper shielding tape. Easy fix. And check the tremolo and make sure it is grounded. Grab a volt/ohm meter and find out where the ground issue is at.

[@EricMorettin]

@@scottdahlberg4890 it's not a copper shielding issue. I'm also not going to start rewiring a piece of this rarity. You kind of have to leave em as is

[@scottdahlberg4890]

@@EricMorettin I understand where you are coming from. To each their own. I never sell my guitars, so for me it is a no brainer.

[@jonsierra723]

So happy that you got this guitar dude😊. Sad that it has a grounding issue

[@EricMorettin]

@@jonsierra723 thank you 🤘 unfortunately this is how it is on these guitars. But a simple noise gate will solve it

[@FuzzImp]

These are sick dude! 😮❤🎉 It’s hard to say why it’s doing the ground buzz. My guess is maybe some shielding paint in the cavity might help and wouldn’t affect much else. I’ve had Gibsons with stock wiring that helped with

[@EricMorettin]

@@FuzzImp thank you 🤘 believe it or not all of the electronic cavities are copper shielded. I bet it's a wiring issue despite all of the connections and circuit looking good.

[@duander1]

I have a Dean Dime Black Bolt and I used copper foil to shield the cavities of the electronics and pickups and it solved the problem with noise

[@EricMorettin]

@@duander1 I think there's more to it than shielding since other guitars without shielding don't have this issue in my experience

[@duander1]

@@EricMorettin I believe it could be the bridge pickup that has a high output as the neck pickup does not generate noise.

[@BA99253]

Very cool guitar! I think the 59 is the goat of neck pickups.

[@EricMorettin]

@@BA99253 it's a fantastic pickup in both bridge and neck positions! Lots of clarity

[@jgbirds]

Dimebolt oh yeah!

[@PhreakOvicH]

Never been a fan of the shape. But i got to respect the dimebolt! Its iconic!

[@EricMorettin]

The D3/ML/Stealth/Razorback or large body guitars in general aren't always for everyone. Bolt is iconic indeed!

[@naruto199797]

I always liked the ML shape you can sit in the regular position, unlike regular v guitars, which i don't mind either way, personally

[@EricMorettin]

@@naruto199797 agreed! It's great having a guitar that feels great in multiple playing positions whether sitting or standing

[@rottingcorpse6002]

Really wish I had kept mine. Sold it in 2010 to a bro who reeealy wanted it. But I still have my D3 slime and Cross quilt top prototype.

[@rottingcorpse6002]

Note, you pickup selector switch as replaced at some point. The original D3 switches are all metal, no plastic tip.

[@NintenDub]

My fender vintera 2 mustang is the same way, you can have all the stuff off, included ng the pickup selectors, which are toggle switches(on off on) both of them in the off position, and when you strum, you hear the guitar.its faint,but off should be off, not 93% off

[@EricMorettin]

@@NintenDub agreed!

[@eeyorebenji2836]

15:09 My Dean 79 has this issue of the bill Lawrence pick-up just not sitting correctly Sits just slightly higher than I’d like and was a headache to get it set properly Thought it was just me but I guess it may be a common issue Although my Dean ml select with a bill Lawrence sits perfectly so who knows what’s going on there

[@Rokken2Dokken]

I played a dime slime dime3 at NAMM over 20 years ago and I regret never buying one/a dimebolt once I could afford it.

[@EricMorettin]

@@Rokken2Dokken I could only imagine how sweet the namm display was for these guitars. What a privilege! Ahh I hear you, there are lots of guitars I've wanted that have just soared in prices. IMO if you want a dime guitar, and to honor the legacy, any dime will do for that.

[@Rokken2Dokken]

@@EricMorettin it was an amazing experience and it left an impression that very few guitars have matched. Sadly I don’t remember the display but it did have the dime bolt and the 333s. I picked up a Dean lightning bolt last year, but it’s not the same as the Washburn Dime 3. I still have a hard tail dime 332 (before they made it string through) from when I started playing. I beat myself up for not getting a dime 3 and also for not getting a Jeff Loomis Cygnus FR7 from Schechter, that’s rare but it isn’t a $20K-$30K guitar. Yet.

[@EricMorettin]

@@Rokken2Dokken yeah I can only imagine. I got into guitar during the "rebirth" of Dean era when they came back swinging with all of the artists, and Zelinski running the show, post dime passing. That era was special to a lot of us, and I wish I was old enough to get into the namm show back then. Those 332 models are cool and could be a great mod platform for better electronics. I hear you on guitar regrets. I wish I bought a boogie bolt when I could have, but c'est la vie. You can still get the schecter for a decent price yeah?

[@Rokken2Dokken]

@@EricMorettin the Schechters are affordable but rare, that’s all. I am an “old” person and was lucky enough to see pantera at ozzfest 2000. I went to college and then lived in a tiny city apartment (I regret selling my teal stripe peavey ultra) so I went light on gear acquisition until the past year. So guitar was off the list until I moved out of the city. Mostly kept just my line6 pod 2.0 that I got in 2002 (it still works). Missed all the stuff about modelers and impulse responses and was really kind of floored about getting good tone at room volume. I threw an old JB-4 into the 332. Tempted to at some point install an FR-X but time is what I lack.

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

Any guitar will buzz without the metal being touched. It's grounded through touch?

[@pistolpaul1]

Lovely video Eric, would you fix my BC rich warlock as well, it has more or less the same issue...lol

[@EricMorettin]

@@pistolpaul1 thanks Paul! If we are in the same city I could do it haha

[@pistolpaul1]

@@EricMorettin I might even consider moving 🤣🤣🤣

[@Mr_Irrelevant-1981]

I have some questions. How much was this guitar, and where did you buy it from?? Because i really want one for my birthday

[@gearhead2017]

Have hum on 3 of my guitars(4th is acoustic) just hit the boss noise suppressor and turn down the decay a little,bam! No hum,that dime guitar is killer,the closest thing i have is a oscar Schmidt wasburn les paul copy,i dont really play it much,i play the ibanez and my newest axe,a leo jaymz skull n bones graphic but i would love to have a dean dimebag signature but his estate said nope no more guitars w the lightning bolt,dean is making the guitar but no bolts on the guitars,IF i were to get a knock off one? I could swap out the trem and the bridge pickup and the rest of the electronics for the real stuff

[@EricMorettin]

@@gearhead2017 check the used market for a Dean or Washburn dime guitar. But if you want brand new, hang tight for DGZ. I'd avoid the AliExpress or DHGate guitars

[@vincentrandles8105]

Dude - I'm over here! Look at the camera bro....🤘 And what's with the janky looking little pots that are in that thing, thought you said it was a USA Washburn. 250 or 500k ones would have been standard. I think someone switched potentiometers on ya. I'm just jealous! (But for real though)

[@EricMorettin]

@@vincentrandles8105 they're 500k pots and they were probably switch when the pickups were changed on this 🤷‍♂️ pots come in all different sizes.

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

I think the wire is in the center of the Dimebucker to also put the pickup in backwards a la dime.

[@EricMorettin]

@@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip you can turn any pickup around, you just need enough pickup wire.

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

@@EricMorettin Thats kinda what I mean, I have a Megadrive and I would love to turn it around, but it doesnt have enough wiring through the years of messing with it.

[@EricMorettin]

@@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip you can splice longer wires to the existing wires to make it work

[@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip]

@@EricMorettin Yea I figured, I am not as well versed in the electronics department, wish I was, I could do everything I needed to.

[@EricMorettin]

@@TheGreatBaronOBeefDip I started out with little to no electronics skills, and I'm still learning and trying to get better. But if you watch some KZbin videos, have a tech you can learn from, and have your own desire to learn, you can pick up a pretty sweet skill. I believe in you!

[@scottdahlberg4890]

Why is there no ground wire on the back of the 3 way switch? WTF???? time stamp 11:07

[@scottdahlberg4890]

I built my own Dean Bolt and I didn't wire it that way. But o.k.

[@careful__Icarus]

The day that Dime died I went to Sam Goody and bought 3 of those lightning bolt ones and 2 camo ones. Spent a little over a grand. Sold within a week for 5 grand each. Suckers.

[@philfrank5601]

Do you have an American Washy Stealth?

[@EricMorettin]

I do not

[@TexasSmoking]

Obl l500xl had black shielding on the wires, thats just a bl usa grey wire. Preferred to be honest

[@EricMorettin]

@@TexasSmoking noted. Was always communicated to me that OBL was grey wire

[@TexasSmoking]

@@EricMorettin obls are very rare. More rare than bl usas with grey wires.

[@dylangajdosik964]

You can look at Dimes guitars and see that not all of his lawernce pickups have the thin blades. Some have the same size blades as the Bill and Becky.

[@EricMorettin]

@@dylangajdosik964 Yeah he and Grady used whatever they could get, and the production of the XL500 changed a few times (specifically with rail size, height etc). He also used a prototype XXL500 which eventually turned into the Dimebucker.

[@dylangajdosik964]

@EricMorettin you're definitely right about the Dimebucker coming from what would have been the L500XXL Dime signed with Duncan and that's what we got.

[@rferguson3]

19:10 Sound & Cross? Is that what you called it? Lol.

[@EricMorettin]

@@rferguson3 southern cross

[@manley1979]

You are slowly collecting all of them!! lol!!

[@EricMorettin]

@@manley1979 haha if only! There are so many other D3s that were only released in batches with less than 5-10 units of each

[@manley1979]

@@EricMorettin I remember well!!

[@tankpigSTS]

Want one bad 🤣

[@Littlesuzieofficial18]

Where can you actually get one of these ? 😮

[@EricMorettin]

@@Littlesuzieofficial18 you need to look high and low!

[@Rand_al_Thor372]

You a Wheel of Time fan...?

[@EricMorettin]

@@Rand_al_Thor372 what's that?

[@Rand_al_Thor372]

@@EricMorettin fantasy book series. Main character has dragons tattooed on his forearms. Noticed yours.

[@EricMorettin]

@@Rand_al_Thor372 never heard of it! I actually have an alligator tattooed on my forearm but I guess it could look like a dragon from some angles!

[@igorechikornkukuruza5737]

Передаем привет обезьяновщине

[@DavidMadeira29]

Did it really come from the factory, whereas, Canada, DDR, West Germany, Indonesia? I don't know. I'd rather buy a chinese Razorback, with cheap spray paint all over the neck. D3, uh? Turn it 🆙️ I don't know. Namastè.