Dime drank a lot.

In all of his Guitar World interviews he was pouring the interviewer shots.

That was just his personality.

And alcohol leads to hypebole and stretching the truth.

And let's be honest - He had Washburn make a copy of his old Dean as his signature guitar.

And he had Seymour Duncan make a copy of the L-500 as the SH-13 (at the time the only pick up in the Seymour Duncan line that listed inductance).