Anyone else get one today?

"Introducing Romeo-SC. Enter your school jazz ensemble for a chance to win Eastman..."

But when you open it, there's no mention of any contest, only this;

https://www.eastmanguitars.com/electric_...ce=eastman

Little bit more on NAMM 2020 :-

https://guitar.com/news/eastman-announce...namm-2020/

I just took delivery on one of these for $306.91 delivered to my local UPS Store (to prevent "porch piracy"). I took the strings off, wiped off the guitar with a mild cleaner, oiled the bridge and fingerboard, put Ernie Ball Aluminum Bronze 12-54 strings on while replacing the plastic bridge pins with bone pins, stretched the new strings, tuned it up and WOW! At the very least, this guitar makes a wonderful camp-fire guitar which will NOT cause one to miss the "really good" guitars, safe at home.

I have owned a PCH1-D- CLASSIC for a few months and was hoping the OM version would prove to be just as good. IMHO, it sounds about 85-to-90 percent as good as my E10OM! Eastman has done it again! They've designed and built the BEST $300 guitar on the planet. If you own one of these, I'd love to hear your thoughts. This guitar will replace the Yamaha FG800 I have had for camping!
Sincerely,
Clint (campacj)
Seattle

Dana Bourgeois makes some great guitars. The guy playing one of his guitars is pretty good technically - but what strikes me is his 'feel'  - he has the soul of an artist -





The following vid features a remarkable Bourgeois dread. I wonder if in a hundred years time Dana will be known as the Stradivarius of the steel string guitar?

Okay....I deleted a thread I had started about a new guitar to keep from being confused with this one.

I bought online from my favorite guitar shop an E1-OM. I usually drive over (about an hour and half away) but this time I decided to go through Reverb. They called me the next day before they boxed the guitar, to let me know the back had a minor ding that must have recently happened. They wanted to inform me so I could cancel the transaction, get something different, or reduce the price on the E1. I ended up getting a E10OM.

The E10OM arrived, and really is a nice guitar. Went through my normal setup process which went quite easily actually. It would be a nice companion for my beloved E20D. Well guess what??

I found out that I am definitely a dreadnought guy. The OM was certainly a fine instrument, but I found that I missed the tone, and vibe of the larger body dread. So I drove over to play their Eastman guitars this time. What knocked my socks off was their E10D. I've read that mahogany has a more woody, dry tonality. Where rosewood (my E20D) has more overtones. This is very accurate.

Both my dreadnoughts sound amazing, and are amazingly different. No redundancy at all. A long post I know, and a more eventful guitar purchase than normal. In the end though I am extremely happy with this E10D. Just beautiful tones, and a joy to play.

Gorgeous Pono 00 on the AGF, $800. no affiliation....
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/foru...p?t=568869

I'm on the hunt for an Eastman AC508M - its an all mahogany version of the AC508, which is the smaller Grand Concert size that is now only available as the AC108CE-LTD.  There are a couple of nice videos on YouTube. If anyone sees one, or has one to sell, please let me know. Thanks!

Just bought 6 packs of these strings, but my E20D prefer monels. So $24 for all 6 packs sh/pp to your door....thanks.

I can't help it, I keep finding these awesome and precious Eastman acoustics up on the block.
I generally don't even look at eBay, but last night...I did...
And right in front of me is an awesome AC712.
So I sent out an offer...and they accepted it.

So, the extremely cool thing about this AC712?
It's ANOTHER Baby Jumbo, like my AC510.
Except it's Rosewood b/s, not Mahogany.

So I didn't know anything about these older 'baby jumbo's' just a few months ago.
When I bought the AC510 is when I discovered what I had bought, After the fact!
So when I got it in, I really liked it, a lot.
And I said to myself...now that I'm hip to these older baby jumbos...
Wouldn't it be nice to score a Rosewood Version of one?
Haha! Last night, I knew Exactly what I was looking at.

Here is a pic from the eBay ad.
I Love Eastman Baby Jumbo Guitars!

I wonder if anyone else thinks about the resale value of a guitar when buying. If I am paying a small amount for a guitar, then I don't really care about resale value. However, if I am going to pay big bucks for a guitar, I definitely wonder if I can get my money back 5 years down the road. For example, if I find an awesome deal on a Martin D-18 and then find an absolute jewel in an Eastman E10D, I would buy the Martin. I know that Martin values always go up. However, I know that I would be lucky to get half the price I paid for the Eastman.That is the only negative about paying big bucks for an Eastman. Most people have still never heard of them, and this causes resale to be low. I have played many Eastman guitars that totally blow martin out of the water, but that Martin name on the headstock carries alot weight when it comes to price.