{"id":397648,"date":"2026-04-25T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T22:30:10","slug":"deftones-stephen-carpenter-helped-inspire-kiesel-guitars-latest-dope-signature-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397648\/","title":{"rendered":"Deftones&#8217; Stephen Carpenter helped inspire Kiesel Guitars&#8217; latest &#8220;Dope&#8221; signature guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiesel Guitars have unveiled a new Stephen Carpenter custom build dubbed &#8220;Dope,&#8221; which landed on 4\/20, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The illuminated Buckeye Burl Vader model was built as an 8-string and features cannabis leaf\/bud inlays across the body and even the knobs. Kiesel have also shared footage showing the build process and tone demo, with additional specs available through their &#8220;Dope&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kieselguitars.com\/dope-guitar\">page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter also continues to have his own <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kieselguitars.com\/in-stock\/159027\">limited signature model<\/a> available through Kiesel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiesel Guitars have unveiled a new Stephen Carpenter custom build dubbed &#8220;Dope,&#8221; which landed on 4\/20, of course.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[28914,156,4912,59845,1614,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-397648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-deftones","tag-entertainment","tag-hardcore","tag-lambgoat","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}