Electric Guitar

A little history about the electric guitar...In 1937, the first patent for the electric guitar was issued.

Early electric guitars resemble modern electric guitars very little, other than in the concept of electrifying the signal and amplifying it remains. Interestingly, a trend in electric-acoustic guitars to pick up the sound with piezoelectric transducer type pickups is similar to the way the first electric guitars made were amplified. In essence, the vibrations of the wood (bridge) were “picked up” from transducers and transferred electronically to an amplifier to produce the amplified sound. However, the technology to take the sound from the (then) hollow body electric guitar would soon change to include solid body electric guitars. The advent of the magnet/coil pickup would open up guitar design possibilities never before seen in guitar design.

From those early beginnings, the sound of the electric guitar evolved from an experiment, to the art, and billion-dollar industry that it is today. Guitars and equally as important, electric guitar pickups became better as the years went by. By the late 1950’s a pickup that addressed ambient noise, known as the 60-cyle hum was patented, and introduced as the “hum bucker”.

For nearly twenty years following the late 1950’s, the guitar industry plodded along, catering to customers of these original designs…Then along came innovation again when Dean B. Zelinsky founded his first guitar company [Dean Guitars] at age 19. It should be noted that Mr. Zelinsky is no longer affiliated with the Dean Guitar Company, yet his innovative designs endure. Zelinsky, a guitar builder from the Chicago IL (USA) area would go on to form the current DBZ Guitars Company in 2008 expanding on his 30 plus years of experience. This company is thriving today.

Indeed, the DBZ Guitars story is as significant in the history of the electric guitar as is CEO, Dean B. Zelinsky’s legendary tenure in the guitar building business. Mr. Zelinsky pioneered building production guitars with custom-wound (hotter) pickups in guitars in the 1970’s, along with being the one who popularized radical guitar designs, pronounced string angles, form-fitted neck shapes, increased surface area of guitar bodies, not to mention his ground-breaking marketing campaigns that turned the industry upside down. Dean Zelinsky took the guitar industry from the doldrums of the initial phases, into the modern age with his revolutionary ideas for electric guitars.

Today DBZ Guitars led by CEO Dean B. Zelinsky is breaking new ground with concepts that are new, even in 2011. Innovations like detailing carved guitar tops to appear like crocodile (DBZ USA Bolero Croc Skin) and snake (DBZ USA Venom Snake Skin and DBZ USA Bird of Prey Snake Skin), both guitars actually are all Maple tops that look like animal hides. DBZ Guitars employs modern techniques using technology (like CNC machines, to expertly create the most intricate and precise cuts & carves), along with traditional craftsmanship, to offer guitars mated with hand-detailed necks, custom tone circuitry and custom wound pickups that look & sound like no other...