I found a E6OM-TC on Reverb listed as almost new by a guy who bought it in January and only played it a couple times.  He had dropped the price to 859.00 so I ordered it.  It will be my fourth Eastman in six months!  I'm really looking forward to trying out a torrified top, having never played one.  I'll start an NGD thread when it arrives.

Thought it would be interesting to see everyone's tastes.  Right now the two main ones I've been working on with my teacher are Baby's Coming Home (Chet Atkins) and Berkely Springs (Don Ross).  Thank goodness for my teacher with the latter.  Both fun though. My finger stye skills are slowing improving.

Just saw this posted this morning. This is may be incorrectly marked, but great price on an E20om TC rated excellent and with no cracks.

https://www.davesguitar.com/collections/...20om-tc-21

Sounds nice...


https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/foru...p?t=645329

So - I finally had a chance to play a nice selection of Furch guitars at Acoustic Vibes yesterday.  I now clearly see what all the buzz is about related to the brand.  I played four of them, and liked them all, although my favorite was this one:

https://acousticvibesmusic.com/products/...t-purfling

For me personally, I could see a high end Furch ($3600) competing with Lowden guitars, particularly on price.  I still think Lowden is one of the best boutique builders, but for the price I was blown away by the Furch.  Everything about the guitar, playability, aesthetics and quality of the build was excellent.

Anyone else have experience with Furch/Stonebridge?  Any owners here?

I just had a close friend in Memphis who is not only an excellent guitarist but a very knowledgeable guitar setup and repairer do some tweaking on my DT30. The little E (1st string) was too close to fret end easily sliding off fret and string spacing had to be re-aligned perfectly and needed a little truss rod adjustment. 

I've had the guitar back a few days and the work he did made a massive improvement in playability. I use a 12-53 gauge string set. The only change I have made is moving the E&B strings (12&16 gauge) up 1 gauge to (13&17 gauge)...the 12&16 gauge had a thin sound and annoying little pingy sound. Now with with slightly heavier gauge E&B string it is super clean and full sounding with no pingyness at all. It's amazing what a difference a setup to my likings has done to improve the playability and tone to this guitar.

Two questions here.  From the pictures I can find of Eastman SS dreads they look to have an overall, slightly different shape from the square shoulder bodies aside from their having sloped shoulders.  The SS dreads look like they have a slightly narrower waist than the square shoulder guitars, similar to what Yamaha calls their "original jumbo" shape.  Am I seeing this correctly, or is the sloped shoulder causing an optical illusion for my eyes?  Second, I've heard it said that slope shoulder dreads have a particular sound.  Do any of you notice that and can you describe it?  I'm asking because I think an interesting addition to my collection would be a Mahogany body slope shoulder dread.

I've already discovered that the quality of a 1600.00 dollar Eastman transfers down to an 800.00 Eastman.  But is there an appreciable difference in overall quality and sound in their most expensive offerings, like say a E40OM-TC or a AC922CE?  I've heard it said here and other places that Eastman reserves their best luthiers for their highest price guitars, but what ever luthiers are building the guitars I have are pretty good already!

Was playing my E20P last night and found myself reflecting on just how good it sounds.  Personally speaking, one of the major advantages of Eastman instruments is the variety of tone woods available at very reasonable prices.

Adirondack on rosewood that costed less than $1300 new when I bought it a year ago.  Coupled with a high degree of craftmanship, herringbone trim and a flawless finish. I'm thankful every time I play it to have such a great instrument.

I have to admit that my Eastman 810ce didn't sound like I wanted it to.  A 2005, it was clunky sounding when plugged in.

Most often, a pickup swap is bull hockey and won't salvage a lousy guitar.

However, the 12 pole hb I've put on mine has made an amazing difference.  The guitar is so warm now.  Of course, I can still coax the ghost of Django out of it with a bit of eq, but I needed something warm and smooth, and now, I've got it.

Sooooo in love with my Eastman now.