Dean Hard Tail USA #84-100 LTD EDITION (EX-DEMO)

#84-100

Top of the line guitar with spec and build quality you can only dream of.

If you were part of the scene in the late 1970s, you may recall how two companies – Hamer and Dean – at the time carried the torch for players looking for high-quality solidbody electric guitars.

Dean Zelinsky got into building guitars by first fixing on ’em in the early ’70s. While still in high school, and while most of his buddies were working menial jobs, Zelinksy was fixing guitars and making pretty good money doing it. After graduating, he knew he wanted to be around guitars, though he wasn’t necessarily interested in being “just” a repairman. So he tooled up a factory, and before long his V and Z models, along with his original-design ML model, were garnering major attention. Not bad for a 19-year-old.

Within a few years, though, the locking trem/”Superstrat” craze was huge. Largely driven by low-end/low-cost instruments, the atmosphere wasn’t right for Zelinsky’s hand-made axes. In an effort to survive, he began importing guitars to meet the trendy demand. By the early ’90s, however, no longer enjoying what he was doing or seeing, he decided to bow out.

But in 2000, after nine years away from the business, he was reeled back in by the prospect of helping Elliot Rubinson, the current CEO of Dean Guitars, market the line in a planned rebirth. It wasn’t long before Zelinsky had an idea for a new model – his first in more than a decade. 

Ta Dah!
Three years in the making, the HardTail is a U.S./hand-made, set-neck guitar available in the Dean USA line and featuring a mahogany body, flamed maple top, one-piece mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard, Seymour Duncan pickups, Tone Pros bridge, Grover tuners, abalone fretboard inlays