About Deimel Bluestar

The process of handcraft as well as the wishes of our customers are very important to us. In order to realize your individual model, we have created a form with specifications and prices, where every single pre-calculated option can be decided on and cross-marked. So, starting on a regular standard prize you can make your individual choices with numberless combinations. Any color and personal pickup configuration can be realized. You choose your neck profile, fret wire, neck radiuses, etc.. Whatever you like, we are looking forward to realize an individual Deimel Firestar guitar for you. Except for the body, pickguard, and headstock shape + logo placement, you are free to develop your own model.

Frank himself is a left handed luthier. So building guitars for our left handed customers is self evident and with no upcharge.

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The Deimel Bluestar shape is ideal for a semi-hollow version of the offset waist. This can be done with or without f-holes.
The weight reduction and a certain semi-hollow flavor to the guitar’s tone is the main effect of this specification.

Are you interested in a Deimel Bluestar? Over the last 15 years we have built a variety of Deimel Bluestars that we are convinced of their amazing sound and look&feel!! If you know which guitar you want, just contact us over e-mail or phone and we will be happy to assist you with the further process. We will build the guitar customized for you. So instead of a »BUY« button, we seek the personal relationship with our customer.

We offer PDFs with detailed options and prices.

If you can’t find what you are looking for, we welcome you to contact us directly with your wishes. We will talk to you about the feasibility of your ideas and the price it will have. Skype or FaceTime appointments are possible.

Last but not least, come and visit us! We are located 40 km east of Berlin. Please make an appointment ahead and we are happy to show you our workspace and let you test our guitars in a relaxing atmosphere.

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Woods are selected by Frank individually for each guitar and customer choices. Our favorite woods for Deimel Bluestar bodies are thermo treated Alpin Spruce or Mahogany. American Red Alder, White Korina, Swamp ash, or Paulownia are also great options.

Our preferred neck wood is maple  if not requested differently by the customer.

For fretboards we prefer non CITES listed woods as ziricote or katalox. We also use indian rosewood as standard and offer many others.

It is very important to us that the weight matches the customer needs. Since each guitar is built individually for the customer we can pick the perfect wood.

The Deimel Bluestar can be order with the following scales as standard scales:

Short Scale 24.75″ / 628,65 mm
Middle Scale 25″ / 635 mm
Long Scale 25.5″/ 647,7 mm
Baritone Scale 28.62″ / 727,02 mm

For the bolt tone (screwed in neck) version, all necks are conversion necks which means that you can simply swap your neck and change the scale.
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Other scales on request.

We usually prefer building our necks out of selected pieces of maple. 3 levels of figuration (normal, figured maple, or highly figured maple) are offered. Also we offer a matching headstock in the same color as the body varnish.

Our standard fretboards feature a compound radius starting with 9.5“ from the nut until 12“ at the end of the fretboard. As it is only logical in fretboard theory, that the cone shape is the basis for a tapered neck in opposite to a cylindrical surface, it is the better fretboard. This allows for perfect action, comfortable chording in the first frets, and easy to bend strings in the upper section.

One piece / cap neck maple or walnut necks are a beautiful alternative to mixing neck and fretboard woods.

We offer both Deimel headstocks, 6 in line or 3L3R for our Deimel Bluestar.
The finish of the headstock can be black fiber with pearl inlay logo, natural finish with decal logo, or a matching headstock with decal logo.

»Medium fat 59JM«or »Medium fat 59 LP« is our standard neck shape for the Deimel Bluestar. Of course we can do any custom neck shapes.

All Deimel necks come with a trussrod and a side adjuster that easily allows you to adjust the neck if needed without taking of the strings.

We manufacture the nut out of unbleached bone. Other materials are on request.

On request we offer block inlays made of mother of pearl shell or abalone.

Our standard tuners are the high quality »Gotoh SDS510, nickel «, produced in Japan. The X-nickel version comes in a nice matte finish, that fits well to raw nickel hardware. We also offer the colorful Sperzel tuner or Hipshot classic open gear, and Hipshot grip-lock open gear, or Kluson-style tuners.

MOP (mother of pearl) dots are the classic standard for our fretboards. Other options are on request.

Both are are great glues we love to use for building guitars.

Our standard are Wagner medium jumbo,  StewMac »pyramid«, and Wagner CuNiFlex 6100 frets. We also offer stainless steel frets.

Some customers ask for personal inlays and we certainly can do this. In 2016 Frank had the chance to do a further education workshop with the legendary Grit Laskin in Vienna. We now know all the secrets of the perfect engravings and inlays.

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We offer optional binding for all our necks.

The Deimel Bluestar most often comes in a natural look with outstanding selected woods for body and neck, where the pure texture off the wood specs for itself, but this is not exclusive and any color is possible.

Combining the natural woods with pickguards and back plates made of anodized aluminum or frozen plastic makes a classic, but very modern look. Tortoise, bakelite, parchment white plastic, or also great options. It’s just up to your taste!

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Same as for the Deimel Firestar, we offer multiple options for bridge and vibrato as Mastery M1 + Duesenberg vibrola. Mastery M1 + Master vibrato, polished or brushed ABM Tune-O-Matic /Stop Tailpiece, Schaller StopTail, or our exclusive Deimel »Vibratone« w/ optional »raw vintage« springs.

Numberless custom pickup combinations are possible. Our standard is a bridge and neck combination hand wound by Frank, which allows us to even more meet your sound needs. Lollar, Curtis Novak  Mojo UK, Joe Barden, Kloppmann, or Lindy Fralin pickups are also available.

Special projects need special sound options. Check out our 3rd pickup behind bridge option.
Here is an example on YouTube

Standard of our Deimel Bluestars is a built in piezo disc that gives you uncountable extra sound options.

Stretching the boundaries of the Deimel Bluestar as an experimental guitar, the built in LesLee alternates the sound of two pickups of the guitar while being adjustable in speed and intensity.

The built in LesLee® is available as mono or stereo version, and/or being connectable to a modular synth.

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We offer different solutions to integrate an additional kill switch. Just contact us!

We offer different kinds of capacitors depending on the customers wishes and what suits best the pickup configuration:
Vishay Sprague 1813, 22nf, Mojotone / TAD PIO, 22nf , LUXE Bumble Bee, 22nf, or NOS, 22nf

The output jack is made by Switchcraft and mono, but we do have stereo versions for more experimental sounds.

Preferably we use either Glendale (left) or Schaller (right) knobs.

Our standard is the nickel Gotoh strap lock.

The standard switches are piezo on/off; serial/parallel, and surf switch, but can be modified to the musicians needs.

We usually do matte aging of metal parts and/or arctic aging of the entire guitar, if the finish is nitro. Heavy relic finish is also an option!

Each Deimel Bluestar is delivered in its own Hiscox hard case with Deimel logo. The guitar comes with a certificate of authenticity stating the serial number and  date of manufacture.

Now it’s ready to be handed over to the new owner!