Dillion Guitar Experience

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MikeT

Little Hot Wing
I'm looking for opinions on Dillion Guitars (Les Paul or PRS copies) from the forum who has played them. I'm interested but there are no shops near my home that sells Dillion guitars. Let me know your experience, thanks.
 
They are...cheaper instruments of a decent quality.

Generally decent for the money in every regard. Not outstanding, but certainly not bad.
 
There is a shop in downtown Portland, ME that carries them.

I wandered in there and tried a bunch off the wall.

I'd put them on par with some of the nicer Epiphone LP's.

Quality seems more consistent that the Epi's.

They make a bunch of different ones to mimic Fender, Gibson, PRS, etc......they're not terrible by any stretch.
 
I had a Dillion copy of an Ibby Universe 7 string once. Not a bad guitar, but the pickups were crap. I replaced them with SDs and it was great.
 
Weren't there two factories using the Dillion name/logo? One was OK, the other was awesome?
 
Yes. There was a Canadian-based company, and a US-based company (making them in Korea, and then Vietnam, but I think the latter has been discontinued). I don't think we were able to get the Canadian ones here in the US for a legal reason. Anyway, I played several Korean models, and I owned 3 or 4 several years ago. They were well-made and played well. I owned an LP copy, but my favorite was a PRS hollowbody copy. It was a really nice guitar that I wish I still had.
 
I've been looking at the Dillion firebird copy. I have always wanted a firebird but I'm not payin 1500 for a Gibson.
 
Kinda digging the clear Tele-oid and LP, Jr-oid models...borrowed a Dan Armstrong Lucite several years ago and loved the sustain Lucite gives!

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