type private industry musical instruments founded 2008 ; 8 years ago 2008 founder dean zelinsky jeff diamant terry martin headquarters houston texas united states of america area served global products acoustic & electric guitars bass guitars owner jeff diamant and terry martin divisions diamond amplification website www.guitarsbydiamond.com diamond guitars is an american guitar manufacturer owned and operated by jeff diamant of diamond amplification along with partner terry martin . former dean guitars founder and owner dean zelinsky was a co owner from 2008 until his departure in 2012 . he left the company to form his current brand dean zelinsky private label . formerly known as dbz guitars and later dbz diamond ; diamond guitars was officially formed in 2008 with their corporate headquarters and usa custom shop located in houston texas . contents 1 guitar models 2 artists who use diamond guitars 3 references 4 external links guitar models edit the company has a full line of electric guitars both import and usa made that include the dbz bolero barchetta cavallo imperial royale and hailfire series . for heavy metal and hard rock dbz diamond has their bird of prey venom and halcyon series . dbz diamond offers a full range of acoustic guitars as well as bass guitars . dbz barchetta dbz bird of prey dbz bolero dbz bolero croc skin dbz cavallo dbz cavallo peacemaker dbz halcyon dbz imperial dbz imperial aliento dbz mondial dbz royale dbz tuscan dbz venom dbz venom snake skin dbz verona artists who use diamond guitars edit zoltan bathory of five finger death punch . it was announced in november of 2014 that dbz diamond teamed up with bathory to create the company s first ever signature model guitars . although zoltan has made the switch to diamond dbz guitars in 2014 he goes way back with diamond he s used their amplifiers for over a decade . a lesser known fact is that zoltan designed dbz s popular bird of prey venom and halcyon guitars 1 virus big & rich dope lords of acid rock of ages virus switched from dean guitars to dbz guitars in 2008 he uses the bird of prey cavallo bolero calavera and imperial . tommy kessler blondie rock of ages cavallo ab in white is used as tommy s main guitar in rock of ages on broadway . on tour this summer with blondie he will be using a usa imperial aliento 2 chris caffery trans siberian orchestra during the spring 2011 beethoven s last night tour chris used two cavallo models one jet black and one natural maple . lewis de jong alien weaponry lewis uses 2 dbz bolero s in sibirian quilt and white and 2 dbz imperial s black and burgundy all with the original cast inset dbz logos from the dean zelinsky period . jared mullins heavy glow john corabi sal costa my darkest days wayne sweeny saliva yuji inoue girl next door brett scallions fuel jason krause kid rock jerry becker train stevie salas rod stewart mick jagger george clinton dave pino powerman 5000 adam zadel soil mike scaccia ministry olaf paskarbeit dimple minds jim karika solo artist cassandra chiles giant kitty casey waldner giant kitty tommy church mushroomhead 3 references edit dbz announcement the official web site of tommy kessler gear page dbz guitars artists external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to diamond guitars . official web site of diamond guitars retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dbz guitars & oldid 714191160 categories guitar manufacturing companiesamerican musical instrument makersluthiershidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscommons category with local link different than on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 8 april 2016 at 05 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view