While I am waiting to write a full review in my E20SSV I figured I would ask the forum this question, from just a tonal perspective what is the best Eastman you have ever heard?

Obviously "best" will be different for everyone, but that's the fun of it. From your perspective what is the best sounding Eastman you have ever played? Why did you enjoy the tone so much?

Maybe you have more than one answer. Perhaps you have one guitar that is really good for flatpicking and strumming and another for finger picking. If so, list them both and the reason why.

If you have experience with their electrics go ahead and tell us your favorite electric as well.

I'll get us started. For me it's the E20SSV. I am not exaggerating when I say it's the loudest, fullest, most responsive and most mature sounding Eastman I have ever played. Like I have said elsewhere it's a cross between two of my absolute favorite guitars; my 2009 J45 standard and my 2021 Custom Shop D28 Authentic 1937. I had to wait to get home and test it against my other guitars to make sure it wasn't just the honeymoon playing a tricks on me.

When I close my eyes and listen to the E20SSV I hear an instrument that is up in the highest end boutique guitars I have ever played. Tonally it rivals my D28 Authentic and that is very very high praise ($6k guitar)

It doesn't hurt that the E20SSV also is the easiest playing Eastman I have ever owned. The neck is a little thinner than I am used to but it's still very playable.

For finger picking the E2OM Cedar is the best sounding Eastman I have heard, though the E20SSV isn't far behind. Now, I do have a chance of trading my E10D-TC for an E20P this week. I am full on dreads and would love a small body guitar.

Anyway, I'll save my final thoughts on the E20SSV for the review. In the meantime, to your ear what is the best sounding Eastman acoustic you have ever played?Feel free to add multiple guitars for multiple applications!

I've got the itch for a classical guitar. I have little to no knowledge about them other than the research I've done today. Any recommendations on some classicals? Budget would be no more than $1500. I've found some Alhambra, Cordoba, and Yamahas that seem nice. Read that Alhambra may be a tad better than the other two. Any ideas or pointers?

Thanks

I figured you guys would get a kick out of this. So my dryer hadn't been spinning for about a week and today my father in law figured out why it wasn't working...

Good news is that I won't need to buy any more for awhile.

Friends, I’m about to take an E20D to our apartment in Kraków and leave it there so I can have something nice to play each spring and summer when we live over there. I’m going to try Pearse Bluegrass gauge strings on it, and I’ve seen several people’s comments about how this might require a turn of the truss rod. I’m ashamed to admit that due to my fear of screwing up, I’ve never messed with truss rods before. Can someone tell me what the adjustment might entail? I’m totally ignorant.

Hello all

I have played an E2 OM and really liked it (I found the E1 OM a little too bright for my ear, and the cedar on the E2 mellows the sound just a little), but not had the chance to get to try an E6 OM. Obviously I've looked at the reviews and videos online and they are all very positive about it.  I wanted to ask people who have tried both if the E6 is THAT much better than the E2?  The reason I ask is that the E2 is a whole lot of guitar for the money, but the E6 is double the money!  Is the E6 OM TC worth buying over the E2 OM if finances are a little tight?

I guess what I'm asking can be summarised as just how much better is the E6 than the E2?

Thanks for any thoughts

Over the past couple weeks I sold both my E20D-TC and my E8OM. I decided to take a chance on a Double Top Grand Auditorium DT30-GACE.  This goes against all my instincts. I am normally a try before I buy kind of person. I couldn't find a double top anywhere around to try so all I had to go on were the excited YouTube demos and the positive experiences I have had with all four of my other Eastman guitars.

You might wonder why I sold those two guitars if my experiences were so positive. I originally purchased an E20D-TC and an E10D-TC with the idea in mind that I would take my time choosing a favorite and then sell the other. I thought the choice would be easy but it took six months before I finally had to admit I really, really like that mahogany dreadnought. Selling that E20D-TC still wasn't easy. I really like it. (but that's only one "really") As for the E8OM, I have an E40OM, and even though one is Sitka and one is Adi, they sound and feel so much alike that if you handed them to me blindfolded, I would have had trouble telling which one I was playing, so not quite as hard to let go of. Long story short, I made money on both sales to the point it covered the cost of the DT30-GACE.

Now I'm biting my nails and sitting on the edge of my seat waiting with anticipation for UPS to deliver my Double Top. And waiting. And waiting. It was supposed to arrive sometime today by 7 PM. Since I'm required to sign for it, I've been stuck at home all day. The guitar arrived in San Pablo yesterday (40 miles from my house). This evening it made it to Oakland (13.9 miles from San Pablo and an additional 8 miles distance from my house). Next they will take it 68 miles from Oakland right past my house to Windsor distribution center (21 miles North of my house), then load it on another truck and send it back (21 miles South). That guitar will take five days, and travel 102.9 miles just to go the final 40 mile distance to my house. It only took four days to ship from New Hampshire to California. I got an email at 8:30 PM tonight informing me the guitar will (might, maybe) now arrive on Monday (unless they need to send it to Timbuktu first). Aargh! I'm blaming St. Patrick's Day. The driver probably stopped for a pint or two, or four, or...

As they say in the guitar business, stay tuned. I hope the guitar is all I hope for and I have nothing but positive things to say about it.

Hi, new here and new to Eastman. I am in the process of deciding on a higher quality acoustic. I’ve had rosewood back/sides before and like the sound. I recently had a Gibson J-15 and, disappointingly, did not bond with it. It was nice to look at, and I liked the neck/playability, but it had some weird overtones (dissonance? not sure how to describe) going on that I couldn’t get past.
I don’t mind a dread shape and scale length either, so trying to decide. Might have been on this forum that I read that playing the SS was “like playing a Telecaster “, which I’m good with.
I may have already talked myself into the SS, but looking for opinions on both models.
TIA

Hello folks, I just purchased a very nice example of an Eastman E1D for a price that was hard to believe at my local shop in Black Mountain, NC.  I went there to buy a used dread I saw posted on consignment, but when I played this Eastman, I went whoa! I checked out the action and it had a ton of saddle, great I can lower the action a bit, which was a bit high for me.  I play fingerstyle and flatpick both.  It blows my mind the build quality and specs of this guitar for the price, I really don't care it's made in China. I looked up some info because I had not heard of Eastmans and saw they are handcrafted with care. Then I saw this forum, cool I said! I am a long time player and have mostly smaller bodied acoustics from Martin, Yamaha, Bedell, Fox and Andrew White.  But needed a dread for some reason :-)) I've never had a sapele guitar, but it sounds great and will only get better as I play it.
I don't play out much anymore, use to be in a few bands, trio's etc; but do some home recording stuff these days. My wife and I use to play as a duo, she sings well, me not so much. 
Anyway just wanted to say hello to everyone and I will be perusing here.  Thank you for having me!

Hi there, my bone saddle was a little low so i bought a tusq one to replace it and try out how it sounds. So i did a comparison playing the same pharses.
 
Same strings (Addario XS 12)
Same mic and placement (neumann Mcm 114)
same preamp and gain
no effects in both tracks and same gain.
Same guitar :+)  Eastman E40OM-TC
same render format: 320kps mp3. no effects.

Disclaimer: since the Tusq bridge is a little higher strings are more tense and i had to adjust the truss rod to the right just a bit, not even a quarter of a turn.
It might be possible that i played the scale at the end of both files louder in the tusq version.

I wont give any opinion, i will await for yours.
Thanks, and hope it helps to everyone.
Gustavo

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/trtz5984e...ib3qinkja9

As stated in a previous thread, I've received my E2D-BK. Too me it's even better looking in person! The sound is amazing. Balanced and LOUD! Pictures below along with my Eastman family!!

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