Dean ML Dimensions/Blueprints

[CravingAlpaca43]

Thinking about building my own Dean ML body. I've looked around for plans but haven't found much besides its a mix between a Z shape and a V shape body. Any Dimensions like Width at the tips of the V, Length, or width at the narrowest part of the body, ETC. Any Plans, Dimensions or Blueprints for either a Dean or a Washburn ML would be great. Thanks 

[mistermikev]

was going to show you that if you use fret2dfind and create a 24.75 scale fretboard with a 1 11/16 width nut then take a fairly straight on photo of an ml and scale it up in photoshop you can grab any measurements you like... but at it turns out there is one here:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.electricherald.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FTP119-Dean-ML-Floyd-Templates-1-Plan.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.electricherald.com%2Fshop%2Fdean-ml-router-templates%2F&tbnid=BnxwS9Ku-lBfyM&vet=10CCEQMyjfAWoXChMIsKXAzbWk_AIVAAAAAB0AAAAAEBU..i&docid=coVhTMckafm8FM&w=1700&h=1000&q=dean ml&hl=en&ved=0CCEQMyjfAWoXChMIsKXAzbWk_AIVAAAAAB0AAAAAEBU

[Bizman62]

Hi and welcome!

You must have done all the searching so I won't. If you haven't found any, the information available is scarce.

There's tricks, though! Dean tells some measurements on their site like scale length (625mm) and nut width (43mm). And there's plenty of front face pictures. Simply compare the known measurements to those you don't know. Even better, if you know where to print a real size picture of the guitar, you can glue the picture on a piece of mdf and cut a template out of it.

 

[mistermikev]

here is a full size pdf of the body against said 24.75 scale fretboard... taken from a dean ml 79 on reverb... enjoy.

1335960048_DimeMLFBD-01bb2copy.pdf

[antony]

Em 31/12/2022 às 15:27, mistermikev disse: Olá, dá para reenviar o pdf??? Ele não estava disponível, me ajudaria muito a abri-lo

 

[antony]

On 12/31/2022 at 3:27 PM, mistermikev said:

here is a full size pdf of the body against said 24.75 scale fretboard... taken from a dean ml 79 on reverb... enjoy.

1335960048_DimeMLFBD-01bb2copy.pdf 171.18 MB · 11 downloads

Hello, can you resend the pdf??? He wasn't available, it would help me a lot to open it

[Bizman62]

9 minutes ago, antony said:

it would help me a lot to open it

For me there was no problems to download and open it. It's big so it took 40 seconds to download and 10 seconds to open with my Internet connection and PC.

[henrim]

The linked PDF is there, although my phone (iPhone/Safari) failed to open it. Got it downloaded on desktop. File itself is probably not working the way it was meant to, at least it looked odd when I opened it in Illustrator.

That said, the already linked blueprint looks like it's in the ballpark.

https://www.electricherald.com/wp-content/uploads/TP119-Dean-ML-Floyd-Templates-1-Plan.jpg

[Bizman62]

1 hour ago, henrim said:

it looked odd when I opened it in Illustrator.

Looked odd in my browser as well, I thought the sketchy looks was intentional.