Hi, I am new here and own a Martin D16 (Rosewood).  I wanted to get a OM Size guitar after 3 years of playing Dreadnaught. Eventually I hope to get a D18 (Mahogany).

I have done my research and nailed down to E1OM (Sapele or Mahogany) and E20OMC (Rosewood). Price different is not an issue here, I do not need electronic either.

I already own Rosewood guitar but this E20OMC with Adirondack Solid Top may worth to own/keep. I am not sure about Adirondack yet, never own one.

Appreciate if some experts here and give me some advice which guitar should I go for? 

Thank you.

Martin....Ive always wanted one...had cash in hand a couple times....but unless you buy a 28 or higher it's not a martin.....alveraz masterworks or eastman is where I spend cash these days....Taylor 1200.00 for laminated back and side don't think so.....the guitar world is crazy these days.......the golden era is gone....got cash...by vintage...refurd....or full blown custom......sad really........glad I got my Eastman 308 now....

Hi gang, I married into the Eastman family last night with a used E8om purchase - I'll post on that separately.

Geographic Location?
Originally Houston TX but moved to California back in 2000

How did you discover Eastman?
I forget originally, but several contact points were through via ownership of a Silver Creek T160 and reading up on the various other import guitars coming in over the years.  I was bumped over the top by Mickey over at another forum who posted some info on his E10om and loves it (and hangs with Nashville folks who know a thing or two).

Favorites related to Eastman - favorite models & wood combos, and which model is next on your purchase list?
Lusting after one of the sunburst acoustics like the E10om or the AC630.

Music interests & anything else?
Started learning classical a long, long time ago, floated in and out of rock playing, played in various bands and grew up hearing a wide variety of music in the house - something I'm in forever debt to my father for.  I finger pick when I'm playing at home.  I'm not focused on playing so much at the moment, but as I slowly approach retirement age, I look forward to spending less time working and more time deriving joy from music and playing with others.

I've been wanting a black E10OOSS for years. Somehow this TFOA Anniversary model slipped past me. Only 10 made, so the odds aren't great, but hit me up if you have one and it didn't live up to your expectations.

If I see the letter D one more time *(^)*&%^&^$^&%#@$ everywhere I look and hear it's DDDDDDDDD...maybe it's because I'd never wanna be in a playing situation on acoustic where I had to compete in volume to be heard. I played 1 once and it was like trying to hug a bear...ok got my D rant out, kinda... give me an 0, 00, 0M and dang acoustic prices are outrageous now and forget about affording a nice used one unless you're loaded, real loaded

I have a friend that lives way out in the country. A lady from his little church gave him her husbands old old ES125 that he had bought new. This was after her husband of 70+ passed away about 30 years ago and my friend seldom if ever even plays it. I've begged him to sell it to me and he won't. I played it unplugged and I don't even have words to describe just how great it played and sounded acoustically unplugged...dang I need to stay off the net to lower my blood pressure

Got another one for you, as I'm getting my acoustic repertoire together - this is Trey Anastasio's "Shine" .

Another original tune, again with my son Devon playing drums and me playing (and singing) everything else. The bass is heavily featured in this one (there are no guitar fills). The lyrics for “Daughter of Daire Dá Dos” were inspired by the poem “Creide’s Lament For Cael” (1175) from “Early Irish lyrics: 8th to 12th Century” (translated by Gerald Murphy, with a foreword by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh). I liked how the original poem starts out with images from the natural world and finally shifts into relating those images to Creide's situation and his lament for Cael; I tried to emulate that with my own lyrics...

Anyway, here's the tune (in 3/4 time): Daughter of Daire dá Doss

And here's an .mp3 version, in case the m4a file linked above doesn't work for you: Daughter of Daire dá Dos

So I'm love'n my new Eastman 308. Seems the tone improves each time I play it....was just born on 7/14....but I digress?
I'm sure there's a few of us here that are addicted to Acoustic Blues...while I don't sit around staring at tab trying to learn others stuff , I do watch guys on you tube....and steal a idea or two now and then...mostly I just try to come with my own stuff...I also listen to acoustic blues on Pandora....anyway...I'd like to start a acoustic blues discussion so we can possibly learn from each other....
I've started playing around with mixing major with minor pentatonics...for more lick ideas....it seems to sound good with the 4 chord and just flows together and of course the blues scale rides nicely in the mix as well....but on the 1 chord the major scale just seems odd to me....I do most of my playing in E as well it just makes sense on the acoustic all those open string chord tones to use at will....I've also started watching David Hamburger....and have picked up stuff from his videos that add to that mix as well....chord substitutions was always something I was interested in....and he has some good videos on you tube dealing with those.....Freddie green chords another added plus.....anyway I hope we can get an acoustic blues conversation going and pick up stuff from each other......

Mixing major with minor.....over 4 chord sounds fine .....even better if the major comes first then add some minor ...it just seems to resolve nicely.....over the 1 chord it just fits better staying with the minor.....and really on the 5 chord most anything will work ....course I am talking about use dom7th and 9 chords....just to be clear...

Any comments?

Some of my favorite you tube guys....Terry Robb, Justin Johnson, Daddystovepipes instrumental stuff..... A lot of my playing is a steady or somewhat alternating bass with single notes and chord fragments....but I'm working on more chordy stuff ....if you've seen David Hamburger play you know what I mean....I'm working on throwing some of that in there as well.

Slide love it ....want to add it ..... I don't do alternate tunings so ......the damn slide just escapes me.....sounds more like a dieing cat?.

I just can't figure out which button to push to like a post, verry anoying.