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Watch Ryan "Fluff" Bruce tear it up on a new Dean Thoroughbred Select Quilt Top

By Jackson Maxwell

The Riffs, Beards & Gear man demonstrates this terrific mid-priced guitar's incredible sonic versatility - from brutal metal tones to crystalline cleans

In the last few months, Dean has been making waves by changing things up a little.

The Florida-based company - known primarily for its beloved, aggressively-styled metal machines - has dipped its toes into more traditional waters with the new T-style NashVegas series and classically-designed semi-hollow Colt Bigsby.

This is by no means to say though, that Dean has abandoned the always-distinct, dependable and attitude-filled builds with which the company made its name - far from it.

As our friend, YouTube guitar specialist Ryan "Fluff" Bruce (opens in new tab), can attest, Dean's less traditional builds are still as attention-grabbing - sonically and visually - as ever.

To that end, you can watch Fluff demo one of the company's latest and greatest offerings, the terrific Thoroughbred Select Quilt Top guitar, in the video above.

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With a satin neck, 22 jumbo fret ebony fingerboard and exclusive Seymour Duncan SH-5 and APH-1 pickups, this formidable axe brings an incredible amount of sonic versatility to the table - with everything from gorgeous, immaculately detailed cleans to the meatiest of hard-rock chugs an absolute breeze to dial in.

Of course, it being a Dean, you're also just a flick of the switch and a twist of the knob away from the most diabolical of metal tones, as Fluff more than happily demonstrates in the video.

The Dean Thoroughbred Select Quilt Top is available now for $899. For more info on the guitar, head on over to Dean (opens in new tab).

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GuitarWorld.com created this content as part of a paid partnership with Dean Guitars. The contents of this article are entirely independent and solely reflect the editorial opinion of Guitar World.

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Jackson Maxwell
Jackson Maxwell

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player (opens in new tab). Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder (opens in new tab) and Unrecorded (opens in new tab). Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.

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