DBZ Guitars
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Formerly called | DBZ Guitars |
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| Private | |
| Industry | Musical instruments |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Dean Zelinsky, Jeff Diamant, Terry Martin |
| Headquarters | Houston, Texas, United States of America |
Area served | Global |
| Products |
Acoustic & electric guitars Bass guitars |
| Owner | Jeff Diamant and Terry Martin |
| Divisions | Diamond Amplification |
| Website | www.guitarsbydiamond.com |
Diamond Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer owned and operated by Jeff Diamant of Diamond Amplification, along with partner Terry Martin. Former Dean Guitars founder and owner Dean Zelinsky was a co-owner from 2008 until his departure in 2012. He left the company to form his current brand, Dean Zelinsky Private Label.
Formerly known as DBZ Guitars, and later, DBZ Diamond; Diamond Guitars was officially formed in 2008 with their corporate headquarters and USA custom shop located in Houston, Texas.
Guitar Models
The company has a full line of electric guitars, both import and USA made, that include the DBZ Bolero, Barchetta, Cavallo, Imperial, Royale, and Hailfire Series.
For heavy metal and hard rock, DBZ Diamond has their Bird of Prey, Venom and Halcyon Series.
DBZ/Diamond offers a full range of acoustic guitars as well as bass guitars.
- DBZ Barchetta
- DBZ Bird of Prey
- DBZ Bolero
- DBZ Bolero "Croc Skin"
- DBZ Cavallo
- DBZ Cavallo "Peacemaker"
- DBZ Halcyon
- DBZ Imperial
- DBZ Imperial Aliento
- DBZ Mondial
- DBZ Royale
- DBZ Tuscan
- DBZ Venom
- DBZ Venom "Snake Skin"
- DBZ Verona
Artists Who Use Diamond Guitars
- Zoltan Bathory of (Five Finger Death Punch). It was announced in November of 2014 that DBZ Diamond teamed up with Bathory to create the company’s first ever signature model guitars. Although Zoltan has made the switch to Diamond/DBZ guitars in 2014, he goes way back with Diamond – he’s used their amplifiers for over a decade. A lesser known fact is that Zoltan designed DBZ's popular Bird Of Prey, Venom and Halcyon guitars[1]
- Virus (Big & Rich)(Dope)Lords of Acid(Rock of Ages) Virus switched from Dean Guitars to DBZ Guitars in 2008, he uses the Bird of Prey, Cavallo, Bolero Calavera, and Imperial.
- Tommy Kessler (Blondie)/(Rock of Ages) Cavallo AB in White is used as Tommy's main guitar in Rock of Ages on Broadway. On tour this summer with Blondie he will be using a USA Imperial Aliento [2]
- Chris Caffery (Trans-Siberian Orchestra) During the Spring 2011 Beethoven's Last Night tour Chris used two Cavallo Models one jet black and one natural maple.
- Lewis de Jong (Alien Weaponry) Lewis uses 2 DBZ Bolero's in Sibirian Quilt and white and 2 DBZ Imperial's (Black and Burgundy) all with the original cast inset DBZ logos from the Dean Zelinsky period.
- Jared Mullins (Heavy Glow)
- John Corabi
- Sal Costa (My Darkest Days)
- Wayne Sweeny (Saliva)
- Yuji Inoue (girl next door)
- Brett Scallions(Fuel)
- Jason Krause (Kid Rock)
- Jerry Becker (Train)
- Stevie Salas (Rod Stewart Mick Jagger George Clinton)
- Dave Pino (Powerman 5000)
- Adam Zadel (Soil)
- Mike Scaccia(Ministry)
- Olaf Paskarbeit (Dimple_Minds)
- Jim Karika (Solo Artist)
- Cassandra Chiles (Giant Kitty)
- Casey Waldner (Giant Kitty)
- Tommy Church (Mushroomhead)
References
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