As of this morning, the Blueridge BR-371 Parlor (without case) is on sale at Musician's Friend and Amazon for $993.70 (normally retails for ~$1450). Here's a review from Maury's Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGeVFr0VBk.

My Eastman E20OM-TC sounds great and is the perfect size. Thus, it ends up being my main practice guitar that I play on 2-4 hours a day. I change strings frequently and don’t seem to have this issue on other guitars. Both phosphor bronze and 80/20 strings have been on it. After playing a few hours today on a brand new set of strings my fingers are black. I’m wondering if it maybe the dye in the ebony. Hopefully it doesn’t cause an issue of color coming off long term. Anyone else have this?

Brand new left handed E20OOL.  Great guitar with a great sound

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Very positive review of Eastman Romeo in latest (December 2019) Guitar magazine. 'Versatile and soulful, there's plenty to love about this classy new electric - 9/10'.

My wife wants to learn guitar so she wanted a guitar . She ends up with a 2016 Gibson Les Paul special new old stock , it's like a 335 the size of a LP , flat top f hole. It didn't sound to go in the store but it's what she wanted . Get it home and it really doesn't sound good lol . She says can you make it sound like the 386 ? It's a rainy night and I say why not . I pull the 386 apart and install my Seymour Duncan's pickups and harness in the Gibson , yes it now sounds really good . But my 386 is setting empty now . Just for giggles I installed the 57 & super 57 and Gibson's harness in it. I had to rewire a little (Lefty) and add orange drops.
In the middle of this I'm thinking this is alot of work and it's not going to sound good anyhow . Wrong, it sounds great , different then the SD's but just as good in a different way .
It's the Eastman I guess , I've played it back to back with 3 Gibson 335's and it just sounded better then them . I wasn't crazy about it with the stock pickups , it was ok not bad . SD's great! 57's great ! Thank goodness I don't have to take them out lol. One thing I think is the Mable neck with the ebony board gives it more snap then the Gibson 335 . So glad no one bought it lol .

OK - how do I polish a nitro finish which has gone dull through brushing against my shirts and jerseys over a period of time? I was thinking of parting with my Collings OM1 and as we know buyers (all of us?) can be fussy about such things. I would be grateful for some ideas.

I was looking at the spec for the Yamaha FG3 Red Label dread  - Mahogany b&s (Sapele neck) and baked Sitka top. Seems quite impressive, and fairly cheap too. Anyone had hands on one of these?

Hey guys...I joined back in May, but don't get to spend as much time here as I'd like..and I love reading the posts when I can...love the Eastman owners family!  Awhile back, I posted that I had bought an AC 822 here in Maine from our local boutique store, and then discovered it was a different shape than other AC 822's I have seen....I got wonderful responses from everyone about it, which led me on a hunt to find out more....well...

   Mark Herring came to town for an Eastman Experience event, and I took the 822 to ask him..he took one look and started laughing, and then asked if it was from 2008, which it is...he told me how their master luthier liked to experiment during that time...he said the guitar has a AJ616 body minus the archback, with all of the 822 essentials...the rosewood back, the Englemann spruce top, and the maple binding...the rosette , he said was off of another body design, and the head stock is 822 instead of the AJ style one would find on a AJ616..he said maybe 2 , maybe 5 at the most would have been made and most of those might  end up in the dumpster...mine is like the only one he has seen...so it's unique!!  I love the looks and the tone, and  the neck, and it's kind of cool to have a stand alone design Eastman...gotta love this company!!!

I was in my local shop today and played an E6OM. The mahogany was beautiful, I was really impressed with how good it sounded, how good it was set up, etc.

I've been looking for a compliment to my 1965 000-18, but something with the wider nut. At first I was thinking Martin, because I only own Martins. But I just cannot say enough about how pleasant it was to play and how sweet the sound was.

It is not a Martin, it is an Eastman, and that's not a bad thing at all. For $839-- and a hardcase? Sheesh.

On another note, the shop got in a 000-28 that I will compare to a E20OM tomorrow. I just can't get over how good these sound, but since this is an Eastman forum I imagine you all probably already know that...

Prices tend to fluctuate on these frequently but today the black version is down to $38.72 (usually $55 at Sweetwater or Musician's Friend).

I have a Thalia capo I use on my Taylors but requires swapping inserts for use on the Eastman's fretboard radius. Hoping the touted "Adaptive radius" on the G7th will work seamlessly across the differing fretboards.