Anyone try Dean Zelinsky Private Label guitars?

[Number Of The Priest]

https://deanzelinsky.com/

Thinking out loud below:

From what I gather, the lower-priced offerings are made in Indonesia and the expensive models are USA. Can anyone confirm?

The Z-Glide neck looks interesting. Anyone play one? Seems like dirt and oils would get lodged in the cheese grater design?

The Sidekick pickup boasts of true coil splitting without the volume drop associated with normal hum-to-single splitting. Can't find any videos to demonstrate this... anyone have any luck? (edit = found a video of Dean himself demonstrating this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dzb646aFU Surprised he didn't try to make the single coil noiseless at the same time. My thinking is if he's going to innovate a humbucker that doesn't drop output when switching to single, might as well go all the way and make it noiseless.)

They have a factory direct ideology to cut out the middleman. Similar to Carvin (now Kiesel)?

What are your thoughts overall? There is NOT very much information available, making research results quite underwhelming.

[Venomboy]

I've played all manner of Dean and DBZ guitars, and most were really nice. However, right when Dean was leaving the Dean company, the USA guitars at NAMM sucked. Finish flaws, crappy setups, etc.

The DBZ guitars, USA and import, felt like nice Deans.

Never played the Private Label guitars.

Why is he always leaving? Hard to work with? Can't sit still? Is he making the same guitars under a different name? He used to be known for high quality, pricey (but still affordable) guitars. Now he's doing the low end thing. Cash cow?