Rounding out the construction features is the all-black hardware. He also notes that he kept the full, traditional control cavity of the ML so that an additional Volume or Tone control could be easily added if the owner desired. It in the same location as the bridge Volume knob on most all Dean MLs, and Blaze says that he chose to keep it there for the benefit of ML fans and players. It’s positioned quite a distance away from the right-hand playing position, way past the bridge, which could be a good thing if you’re an arm-swinging windmill strummer, but a bad thing if you need to do volume swells with your pinky. A single Volume knob controls the output of this guitar. Like some other classic guitars, offsetting the outputs of paired pickups can offer some tonal benefits. The middle pickup is an old-style humbucker called the Nostalgia that has a low output of 8.1k. It has an Alnico 8 magnet with a hot output of 15.7k. In the bridge position is a Blaze Bucker, codesigned with Buddy Blaze. The pickups are made by Dean’s DMT division (Dean Magnetic Technologies). The scale length is 24.75", with a two-octave neck and 24 medium-height frets on a rosewood fingerboard. The weight feels evenly distributed and well balanced. The size of the body makes up for it in the guitar’s overall mass, although it isn’t really that heavy when you strap it on. Despite its size, the body is a mere 1.5" thick, unlike the 1.75–2" thickness of most guitars of this type. The Dean Buddy Blaze ML is a set-neck design featuring a mahogany neck and body.
This guitar was definitely designed for speed, volume and visual appeal.
The new Dean Buddy Blaze ML wraps all of these design elements into one guitar similar to his original Dean, painted blue with a striking chrome flame graphic. Another distinguishing Blaze feature was the offset fretboard position markers that swoop diagonally along the length of the neck. Along with other trendsetting standards of the time-low-action necks and Floyd Rose tremolos- Blaze designed this guitar to have two humbuckers, one at the bridge and the other in the middle position rather than the neck position, which is more typical of a two-humbucker design. Blaze gave the guitar to Abbott and the rest is history: Abbott took that guitar into the annals of rock with his groundbreaking metal band Pantera.īlaze went on to design a guitar for Kramer named the NightSwan in the ‘80s that featured a Strat-influenced body. He acquired a used Dean ML that had once belonged to Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott and made quite a few alterations to the instrument, including sculpting a V-shaped neck profile, adding hotter pickups, a Floyd Rose tremolo and a snazzy graphic paintjob. Among the greatest admirers of this guitar was a luthier from Arlington, TX named Buddy Blaze. The forward half of the body is the Explorer and the rear half is a V. Aiming to produce a more original design, Dean combined the shape of the two guitars-half V and half Explorer-and named the new guitar the ML (after Matt Lynn, a friend of Zelinsky who passed away from cancer). Dean Guitars began producing instruments over thirty years ago in Chicago, IL under the supervision of owner Dean Zelinsky, and was founded on the idea of modernizing the classic designs like the Flying V and Explorer guitars.
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