Hello
I am about to purchase an ac620ce. I cannot find much information about user reviews for this guitar. Can someone share his thoughts about this guitar. Furthermore does somebody know from which year serial number 8568 is? And what the value of this guitar is nowadays.
Thanks
Rik

Hello all,
I walked into a small guitar shop in Columbus Ohio today expecting to look at a Eastman E3ome......well I walked out with the 308 limited edition....slotted head stock , sun burst...my God this thing is sweet.....14 fret neck but it sure plays like a 12 fret . Love the slotted head stock....I did remove the phosphor bronze and put a set of 80/20's on it....to my ear 80/20 fit better on mahogney back and side guitars.....the desire to pull the pick guard is killing me .....the guitar was made 7/14/22 and only hung in the shop for 3 days......think I could get by with it ?? Without the dreaded sun tan line????

I'm loving this guitar....fits well with my Alveraz MasterCraft .....

As the name says I love picken acoustic blues....this 308 fits that bill perfectly.....

I've played martin's in this price range ....the 308 and my alveraz MasterCraft both kick there butts.....loving this new Eastman!!!!!

Hopefully there's some acoustic blues picker on here to trade licks with better yet some local guys around Springfield or Columbus Ohio ...... To get together and pick some and learn from each other.......time for a beer , living this guitar.....time to pick some more??

They all sound great to me ha...now I'm thinking hard about the all-mahogany OG

A number of you remember that I was going through a tough patch the end of last year and ended up in the ER a couple of times.  This was after about a year of not feeling well.  Mostly it was constant fatigue and some other random symptoms.  Finally a few months ago we found that I have two clogged arteries and am having a bypass operation next Tuesday.  Until the last couple of days I was taking it in stride but yesterday the reality hit and I started getting pretty anxious.  I'm not too nervous about the surgery itself but rather the recovery.  I've gotten a few different versions from others about what the recovery was like for them which led to more anxiety. I'm mostly concerned because I live alone on an island so services are random and I don't have a clear picture of what I'll need when I return home about 5 day later.  

Anyway, just had to share and I know that a few of you have gone through some kind of heart issues and would love your perspectives.

Just placed an order today for an E40OM-TC  from Ted @ LAGS. He had two of the (He says seven were built?) E40OM-TC models with the bolt on Bourgeois "Tone-Tight" neck joint and a standard 25.4" scale length. Be next week before I get it as it has to travel coats to coast. But I'm excited to have a "true" Eastman OM as everyone I've seen or played had the 24.9" (000) scale length. Not sure why they don't call them 000's instead of OM's but I guess they must have their reasons. 

He has one more if anyone is interested...just a PSA of sorts?

What can be done to improve forum activity? 1 to at the most 2 post per day. I see a substantial amount of guest browsing forum but few if any members post daily, most days hardly anyone. I don't know any forum particulars but wondering why so few post and more guest than members daily.

Is it the forum layout, could changes be made for a more friendly layout, different host? Are the few post made of little or no interest to members/guest? Just asking if possible changes could be made to increase member post and pull in guest as members. I greatly appreciate my Eastmans and evidently others do also....just wondering

GUITAR WORLD just published a nice article about Eastman.  

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/30-...an-guitars

A few excerpts:

​​​​​​“'We have redone the golden age of guitar building,' says Eastman International Sales and Product Development Manager of Fretted Instruments Pepijn ’t Hart. 'But it all came naturally. From the beginning, our focus was to use traditional building techniques to provide the best possible instruments that anyone could afford.'"

Even though Eastman has grown significantly over the last 30 years, the company still builds its instruments by hand, using power tools only when they are absolutely necessary. As demand for Eastman guitars has increased, that presented a few challenges.  “There is no button we can push that allows us to build more instruments at once,” Hart says. “The majority of our building process is done by hand, which is something we are very proud of and don’t want to change. That is truly the unique characteristic of an Eastman. 

 “Sometimes customers will want us to duplicate the neck on an Eastman model they own, but we can’t really do that as all of our necks are shaped by hand and every neck has a specific individual feel.”

CJ

thinking bout it...

I would just love to see some other tops than spruce. It's all spruce spruce spruce, and I'd love to have something more mellow. Currently, I'm really going down the path of playing more classical, and even their classical guitar is spruce! Now, classical guitar isn't an easy market since it has a lof of unbelievably consernative players who won't easily try something else.
I'd say their current model already is pricing them right out of the market, because for less than that money you have a beautifully hand-built Spanish guitar from Spain. Had they taken a different route, added a few different tops (because a lot of classical players wouldn't be caught dead with a spruce top), they really might have had something. Alas!

What would you like to see as a different top wood?