Dean Icon Custom Run #15, Trans Green

Full Description

The Dean Icon

The Dean Icon features modern neck specifications, a comfortable contoured body, and powerful pickups to give you a modern playing experience with a versatile tonal output. Finished in a stunning transparent emerald green, this Custom Run Guitar is made to stand out on stage and give off a classy aesthetic; perfect for the modern guitarist who needs excellent playability, good looks, and great tone.

Mahogany & Flamed Maple Top

The dense and heavy nature of the mahogany body gives this Custom Run Dean Guitar an impressive amount of sustain and resonance, delivering a warm and overall balanced tone. The mahogany tonewood ensures there is plenty of depth, grind, and bite, offering an incredibly dynamic sound suitable for a wide range of playing styles. Its asymmetrical double cutaway shape, along with a set-neck design, offers incredible comfort and a smooth performance when accessing the higher frets. The body is finished off with a beautifully stunning and unique flamed maple top, which not only provides a unique aesthetic, but also enhances the overall tone with extra brightness.

Vintage DMT Series Nostalgia Pickups

The Dean Icon Custom Run #15 is equipped with a set of DMT series Nostalgia pickups, delivering punchy tones with a vintage character. Their moderate output allows guitarists to create classic soundscapes with a balanced high and low-end, ideal for classic rock and lead sections. Both pickups feature alnico V magnets, offering a classic tonality with an incredibly dynamic range ideal for an array of musical styles. Equipped with dual volume and tone controls, the Dean Icon Guitar can dial in an incredible variety of tonal possibilities suitabel for everything from rock to pop.

Modern Neck Playability

With its mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard, the Dean Icon offers an incredibly strong tonal character with dark punchy lows and crisp, sizzling highs. The neck features a set-in construction with a smooth heel, providing advanced playability while optimising resonance transfer between the neck and body. Unlike bolt-on constructions, set-in necks can be sculpted into a smoother and ergonomic heel to provide seamless accessibility to the higher register. The fingerboard is equipped with jumbo frets to make vibrato and string bends easier, while its flat 12’’ radius provides a very modern playability perfect for soloing.

Incredibly Stable Performance

Along with its incredible comfort and tonal options, the Dean Guitar features a selection of high-quality hardware to provide an incredibly stable performance. Its Grover tuners and Graph Tech tusq nut ensure the Icon Guitar remains in tune, even against harsh playing style, while its tune-o-matic bridge and hardtail provide incredible string stability and a quick string change.

Dean Guitars

Established in 1976 in Illinois by Dean Zelinsky, the Dean Guitar Company fast became the "go to" manufacturer for hard wearing distinctive guitars. Now synonymous with the rock and metal genres, Dean Guitars have always maintained their position at the forefront of guitar design and technological advancement in the manufacture of quality instruments designed specifically for louder players.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Top: Flamed Maple
• Body: Mahogany
• Binding: Multi-ply Cream
• Contour: Arched Top
• Shape: Icon
• Bridge: Tune-O-Matic w/Hardtail
• Construction: Set-In
• Finish: Transparent Emerald Green

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Mahogany
• Profile: C
• Scale Length: 24.75’’
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 12’’
• Frets: 22 Jumbo
• Inlays: Pearl Icon
• Nut: Graph Tech TUSQ
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: DMT Series Nostalgia
• Neck Pickup: DMT Series Nostalgia
• Controls: 2 x Volume, 2 x Tone, 3-Way Toggle
• Tuners: Grover
• Knobs: Dome
• Hardware: Gold
• Strings: D’Addario EXL 120 (.009-.042)
• Case Included: No