Hi Everyone

First post here, just received my very first Eastman guitar from Sweetwater this week and all I can say is WOW! 

Been playing 40 years now, electric and acoustic and write and record my own material. Mostly in the vein of Americana (Mellencamp, petty, others) so acoustic and electric are both featured prominently.

I have had lot of acoustics over the years and spent little and lots on different ones. I had a custom Taylor once, maybe 15 years ago that was about 5K, and it was one of if not the nicest acoustics I ever had. Just brilliant tone, balance, playability etc

have also had my trusty 314 ce for 30 years? Beat up and ugly now but such a fav

anyway, when I saw this Eastman on sweetwater I initially didn’t look at the price because I thought oh wow, the leaf inlay (high I love because autumn is my fav time of year), the beauty, the build etc must be 8K or something

i glanced down and couldn’t believe it

the first time in my life a guitars LOOK said I have it have this, so I bought it untried (they do give you 30 days but I knew I was keeping this). 

it came and I unboxed it and I was just so blown away, pics never do a guitar justice no matter what you have or are getting.

the case was also very nice. I picked it up and it was in tune, sweetwater does a very nice job usually of checking and setting up guitars

anyway, the first strum and pick were enough t give me chills, it just boomed in a good way, crips highs and low bottom BOTH

i just kept playing and playing, I hadn’t played much the past few years (life etc)

and it was like I was 16 again.

love this guitar and ams so blow away by Eastman. Are all like this??

I switched to a beautiful Breedlove acoustic a while back form my normal Taylor’s and some other custom brands and that is also beautiful, so I fell that Eastman and Breedlove may just be hidden gems.

thanks for listening lol, and thanks for letting me be here

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HI, I am trying to find info on what I am told is a 2006 520C if that can make sense ?
How good / bad where early Eastman acoustics ? THe guitar is to far for me to try but the price seems right...
ANy one woth experience with early acoustic models please help. I have asked for more pictures...

Thank you !

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▶GUITARS◀
Eastman E22ss/v-SB
Eastman E20OM-MR-TC

hi,

someone locally has one of these for sale. i went and looked at it today. i won't be buying it. it is pretty beat up. a couple things were head scratchers, though. 

a) the headstock cover was really light wood. b) the herringbone was really lightly colored, not a pronounced black and white. c) the b&s were really lightly stained as well. 

and d), the print on thre label was nearly worn off. i could only make out the faintest part of the eastman logo. none of the serial # or anything else. 

the case looked original and he had the coa, but with no readable label, i couldn't verify its provenance. 

i came home and searched 2013 e8om, and found this one that was for sale at some site a while back.

https://www.oscarguitars.se/en/om-audito...tural.html

is anyone familiar with this peculiar version of the e8om? i've never seen one like this before.

I live for part of each year in Poland, and this year I brought along an E20OM that I love and will be leaving it here in our condo to keep its E20D cousin company. I don’t want to be without it, but this year it got lost for a couple of days in transit, so I’m going to let it stay behind and buy another one as soon as I get home. Has anyone here posted a video comparison of the E20, the E20-TC and the E20-MR-TC? Or can anyone just share some impressions with me? I’d really appreciate it.

As anyone who has read some of my posts knows, I buy and sell A LOT. Sometimes too much and what is an excellent guitar gets sold. That would apply to the E6D-TC Alpine I re-bought yesterday. Here is the original post - https://www.eastmanguitarfans.com/Thread...-tc+alpine

For me I find the limited edition Alpine version a nice balance between Sitka and Adirondack. I am very happy to have the second biggest mistake I have made in selling rectified. Now if I can get a certain person in Florida to decide my beloved E40OM isn't quite what they want, I will have the biggest selling mistake overturned. I am still working on the concept of patience. Newer/different isn't always better.

Hi all,
Anyone had any experience of top cracking or forced relic? I've seen nitro easily cracked with a simply heating and compressed air...

It seems to be the Nitro is not common (to me anyway) to other brands of guitars I've had with a Nitro finish... and contains a plasticizer of some kind?

Has anyone seem any older tops start to relic naturally? I can't see this top ever showing and signs of cracking to be totally honest...

Anyone? 

Cheers

Trying to decide between a Eastman AC422 and  Taylor 414ce.  Never played an AC422, hard to find in area so I would have to order one.  May just breakdown and buy used 814CE.   Need an electric/Acoustic with cut-away.  Main non-elec go to now is 89 HD28 and 76 Yari/Alverez.  Need some feed back please. Mostly 70's rock, occasional Praise and Worship.

This used to be my guitar. Gotoh tuners, Schatten HFN pick-up and Holter pickguard. I almost bought it back but I really need to be decreasing the head count. The listing says no shipping, but I am willing to help someone if they want to buy it. I use Pirate Shipping and guitars have been about $65 or thereabouts. The current owner's name is Dave. I have done 2/3 deals with him. Nice guy.

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/m...32848.html

this TFOA vid of guitars new in their stores includes a new Eastman electric model T60 TV Ltd may be of interest to you :-

https://tfoa.us18.list-manage.com/track/...3420c33b88