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EGF user Grandpa Bucky sent me this note privately as he was having challenges posting a new thread - so I started the thread for him. Here's his comments:
Since Double Tops have been out since 2019, I wanted to ask how those guitars are holding up. Is there any bellying of the top? Yesterday I came very close to pulling the trigger on a used dt30gace, but got nervous and decided to research double tops in general. Since the first classical double top was created in 1995, I found plenty of reviews from double top classical guitar owners. I found some reviewers complaining that their double tops only lasted about 5 years before the tops had collapsed to the point they lost their projection. In fact, one builder tilted his bridges to get a longer life out of his double tops before they had tilted too far. That led me to the idea that, rather than searching for a used dt30gace, I should get a new one
and preemptively install a JLD Bridge Doctor to, hopefully, get ahead of the game. Then I started thinking patience might be a better approach. Since 5 years seemed to be the time most often quoted, I could wait a couple more years and see if there were any complaints about Eastman's double tops bellying. Thus my question, after two and a half years, any sign of bellying yet? And a couple secondary questions, do the double tops have decent overtones and do the Eastman double tops sound better as they age like a solid top?
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