This is probably already old news, but I got an email this morning for S&B's Black Friday sale starting today - 15% off your entire order. The code at check out is BF15.

Also - I have a set of Santa Cruz Parabolic Mid Tension strings that I would like to give away to a good home. I had bought them for my maple AC622CE. I have other strings I prefer on other guitars, so I have no need for them. Just PM me with an address and I will pop them in the post.

Picked up my SB56 today. Blimey! What a guitar! The only thing I have to complain about is the fact that the pickups are screwed down. I can't seem to raise or lower either of them. Is this normal? I would like to try either raising the bridge, or lower the neck, pickup.

Hi all
Been trying to find out the difference between the ac308 ltd and ac.322ce.
It seems to me it just might be the headstock or perhaps one is sapele and one is mahogany. Would love to get one before Christmas, but uk guitar shops are not answering emails at the moment.
Thank you
Huw

I am a relative newbie to the Eastman world, having purchased my first one (T484) back in May 2021. I'm lining up an SB56 at the moment, should be in my local store to try out some time next week.

I'm interested in potentially interested in putting a pickguard on it. Yes, I fully realise this is not to everyone's taste and, despite this being about my taste, there'll be plenty of people who will express theirs   So, that aside, has anyone successfully done this? If so, where did you source your pickguard?

Many thanks,
Dany.

For the Brits on this site, there are some good deals to be had at Hobgoblin music (as discussed today elsewhere on this site). I have personally owned a Blueridge BG140 solid Mahogany b&s, Sitka top slope dread and found it to be a good guitar, especially for the price. Acceptably resonant, quite punchy when you need it. It's a bit of a looker too if you like that kind of thing. But the 1 11/16" nut was a tad narrow for me, and I had to buy my own case. But still good value for money. So if you are in the market for a slope hog dread this may be worth a look-see:

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChc...ARBF&adurl=
The associated blurb says 1 7/8" nut width - this has to be wrong.

I have never played the Eastman E1D dread which I guess is the closest Eastman spec/price wise (although it is square shouldered and has a 1 3/4" nut). It is about £50 more expensive than the BG140 (saleprice), but comes with a padded gig bag.

Anybody played both?

This is where I'm coming from  ... I have two Eastman flat tops -an Eastman E20-P and a rarer E40-00. The E40 is more finely made but I am very fond of them both. 

An elderly friend of mine (by which I mean a year or so older than me) is suffering from dreadnought players shoulder -and also spousally imposed GAS limitations.

He loves my E20-P and for a while I considered selling it to him, but as he couldn't obtain permission to buy it (or anything) I got hold of a Blueridge BR341 which I paid to make playable but it is not far off needing a neck reset - and "lent" it to him.
The guy who fixed it up for me said that he was very impressed with Blueridge guitars. 

It would seem to me that Eastman have access to far prettier tonewoods and perhaps lesser thicknesses of finish.  Apart from that, I don't see an enormous difference (in this simple comparison at least), so I'm asking for your thoughts on the quality of these two makes, as I have found a slowly diminishing source of Blueridge "parlour" style guitars and might be able to obtain one for him.

Anybody here with two comparable guitars from each brand? Opinions?

Made famous by 'the Boss' but written by Tom Waits:-

https://youtu.be/j-ROB8kI_fw

Someone once said 'Tom Waits is a pint of Guinness in a Bud-lite world'. Yep.
For the uninitiated, Heartattack and Vine is worth a listen.

Hi all,

Can you please let me know what feedback busters you use for a Eastman E10SS?

I just bought one with 10.2 cm diameter and it doesn't fit my soundhole (

Thanks in advance!

As some of you know, I've been jonzing for a 12-fret dread for some time now, specifically the Larrivee SD-40 or the Martin D-15S.  I couldn't find one to play to see if I really liked either.  Other than Eastman or Martin, I am skittish about buying sight unseen.  Plus, I was having trouble justifying the price to myself.  Some decent deals popped up but the timing was never right.

Well, yesterday for some unknown reason I searched 'Larrivee' on craigslist and and SD-40 showed up about an hour away for $550(!).  I called him immediately and he said it was like new with a K&K mini installed.  The original owner didn't care for the recorded sound and sold it to him relatively cheaply.  He'd had it listed for a long time and kept lowering the price.  He said he was going to pull it that day.  He said he doesn't play anymore and has too many guitars just sitting around.

He listed it in a tiny CL area where there were... not exaggerating... 8 musical instruments listed.  I think that's why no one saw it.  He was a nice dude and we chatted for a while.  The guitar is amazing, I just love it.  I have 5 acoustics (3 Eastman) and I've intentionally bought ones that all feel, play and sound completely differently.  I don't know that I'll keep all 5, but I'm not in a hurry.

The Larrivee is very light, flawlessly built, and sings.  I looked up the serial number and it's a 2018, but there is seriously not a mark on it, nor wear of any kind.  It has a 1 3/4" nut but a flatter carve with some shoulder, but it feels great.  The finish is satin but not open pore, which I am glad of.  I love the feel.  Sounds great finger picked or strummed.  I know many feel the body shape is too odd, and I get it, but it's much less so in person.

Sorry for the long post, but I'm pretty over-the-moon right now.  I feel so so fortunate to be in a position to own these amazing instruments.

There was a recent online sale on D'Addario Nickel Bronze strings, two for the price of one. So I quickly grabbed six sets of the light gauge (NB1253) for $36 since it was such a great deal. I've used one set but don't think I'll end up using the other five sets so I'd like to pass them on. 

I also have two sets of the Thin Core Phosphor Bronze (TCB-M) strings from GHS in their "Medium" gauge (a bit different than most Medium sets) and a set of TCB-L "Light" gauge. I think they were around $6-$7 per set.  I'll sell all three sets (two medium, one light) for $15, shipped.

The postage rates are a killer now so I want to sell these all together. The two sets of GHS would cost nearly as much to mail as they are worth if I sold them alone. So how about 30 bucks for the entire batch: 5 sets of D'Addario NB1253 and 2 sets of GHS TCB-M.

Send me a PM if you want them.