anyone like em? my local mom and pop music store is going out of busines and everything is discounted, but the only 12/53 set they had were Cleartone so I snaged a pack just to try em.

I was looking for a cheap guitar to leave out so the kids could play it...or me...without pulling out my Taylors or Eastmans.

i was looking at some of the non fully solid offerings from eastman, but decided on a Harley Benton CLA-15M all solid mahogany guitar.  It's here, shipped to the USA for under 300.00 total!

It sounds good...feels good....was nearly in tune out of the box. I have not had time to do any adjustments other than a truss rod tweak and some sanding down of hte bone bridge.

Tuners are amazing...havne't moved at all after tuning.  Way better than expected.

Here's my questions:

1) the guitar is VERY light.  So light that it resonates like crazy (in a good way), but feels like there's nothing in my hands. My taylors (a GC and an AD) feel very heavy in comparison.  The AD has ovangkol bakc and sides which is much heavier than hog, but my GC is spruce/sapele and is still much heavier.  Is this a bad thing? What could be contributing to the difference in weight? Is hog THAT much lighter by definitoin? No electronics so that doens't affect anything.
2) The HB is a thinner tone than expected.  It does resonate iwth some bass when I need it to, but I figured the hog would be a naturally darker guitar...and that's not the case.  It's not a bad sound, it's different, but I expected close to muddiness.  This is very NOT dark and muddy.  Very clear.

I need to probably get it setup a bit because it tends to have a few rattles that I don't have on my Taylors....but it was 222 plus shipping....my Taylors are 2,000 each.  No fret sprout, but probably needs some touching up.

Anybody else have any experience iwth the all solid wood series from harley benton?
 

• Custom Line Solid Wood Series
  
• Style: Auditorium
  
• Top: Solid mahogany
  
• Back and sides: Solid mahogany
  
• Neck: Mahogany
  
• Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
  
• SnowFlake fingerboard inlays
  
• Neck profile: Oval C
  
• Scale length: 643 mm (25.3")
  
• Nut width: 43 mm (1.69")
  
• Bone nut
  
• 20 frets
  
• Pau Ferro bridge with bone bridge inlay
  
• Deluxe Antique Copper open tuners
  
• Factory strings: Daddario XTAPB1253 .012 - .053 (Art. #471307#)
  
• Colour: Natural matt
  

Here it is

Eastman fans have one thing in common, we appreciate a good value for a well-made instrument with quality tone woods.  

I placed an order for a 000-16 StreetMaster today.  Torrefied Adirondack on rosewood.  I'm not sure if the finish will grow on me or not, but I'm willing to give it a try for $1700 ($1999 list less $300 Fourth of July sale).  

https://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/000...aster.html

I’ve owned several all solid eastmans and they are amazing.
I have never seen it played one with laminate back and sides.

I’m your experience, how do they compare?

I recently bought a Harley Benton all solid mahogany 000, and it’s very nice. However, I’m toying with the idea of getting something a little better in quality that might not be all solid.

Ideas?

https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/foru...p?t=648838

That strikes me as a very good price with shipping included.

I am looking at purchase of a used E6OM Ltd run (100 made) from 2014. Aside from the standard E6 features it has factory electronics, herringbone trim and abalone snow flake fret markers. Does anyone have any experience with these? What are your thoughts.

I’ve only tried Elixers once, on a guitar that they really shouldn’t have went on, so I’m no study on them. Just a curious question.

Hey, friends.  Normally, I'd keep my personal stuff out of the forum, but I mentioned that I had to have an unexpected surgery earlier this week, and I didn't want to derail Shishigashira's surprise NGD thread with my own Father's Day surprise.

I woke up last Friday with abdominal pains, which I thought might be an air bubble.  It got worse throughout the morning, and my wife took me to the ER.  Thankfully, she works there, so we were able to get seen right away.  They ran tests, x-rays, CT scans... nothing conclusive jumped out, but mentioned presence of gallstones but no swelling or infection, so they sent me home.

Saturday morning, I woke up, and things felt worse.  We went back to the ER, and they re-ran some tests, focusing on the gallbladder, based on Friday's tests.  This time, the scan showed my gallbladder was infected and swelled to 3x in less than 24 hours.  I was admitted and scheduled for surgery the next morning.

Surgery was successful, but there were a couple of complications (due to the infection, swelling), so they kept me for two more days.  I returned home on Tuesday night and will continue to recover from home over the next couple of weeks.  I'm still not sleeping well, and my activity level is very low, so I'm just focusing on recovery.  No guitar playing for now, but that will happen once I'm feeling better.

I had no prior history or symptoms with my gallbladder, and if you had asked me a week ago what its function is, I probably couldn't tell you.  The life lesson for me is that health (and other things) can change your life quickly, so be sure to live fully, take care of yourself, and appreciate every moment.

Thanks for listening, and I appreciate the kind words from those who reached out.
Keep playing!

I bought a used E1SS-LTD # 301/450 a few weeks ago.
It's a 2019 model.
Was always curious about this version with the open pore.
The Fishman Sonitone had been removed. Which I preferred. Don't play plugged in.
Bridge pins replaced with bone.
The finish was buffed to semi-gloss.
This is my 3rd Eastman SS. E10SS, E10SS/V & E1SS-LTD.
The E1SS by far has the best sound.
We're all familiar with the Eastman hand carved necks variance. Ever had a finger slip off the fretboard of a narrow E10SS/V?
The neck on this SS is comfortable & not too narrow.
So, hands down the SS winner for my playing style is the E1SS-LTD.

Anyone have or played the M20? Been looking around at new and used. Really wished Eastman was interested in a bluesier sounding acoustic ie all mahogany but according to my emails with Eastman it's not gonna happen now or no time in the future. So moving on the M20 looks interesting.





and Williams M20 just really sounds so nice to me...