When will they be on the market? I'm really curious to hear how they sound, especially the new tonerider pickups.

I want to share my experience with a nut substitution on my E10 00SS/V that can be interesting for many people. I know that like me, many of you don't like at all the narrow 1-11/16" nut and prefer the wider 1-3/4". My E10 00SS/V was my first experience with a narrow nut and was causing me troubles. Despite I have thin fingers, I first learned to play on a classical guitar (52mm nut width, a bit more than 2") and that 1-11/16" was too much for me. I liked the E10 00SS/V quite a lot, very classy guitar with a great tone but I thought selling it many times. As a last try I decided to make a new nut with a somewhat wider string separation. First I measured all my guitars with a digital caliper and encountered that there was a considerable variation. That it's not strange as Eastman guitars are totally hand made. As I'm Spanish, I'll give you the measurement on mm, sorry about that. Consider that 1 inch=25,4mm and 1mm=2,5/64ths of an inch.
On guitars with a 1-3/4" (45mm) nut, the nut width was between 44,9 and 45,2mm and the string spacing at the nut equally oscillated between 37,9 and 38,2mm, thus 0,3mm difference, almost one 64th of an inch. Instead on my E10 00SS/V (1-11/16"=43,5mm) the real nut width was 43,4mm and the string spacing at the nut 36,6mm, thus about 1,5mm less than on my 1-3/4" nut guitars. I made a new nut and get a string separation of 38,2mm, exactly the same as on my E10D and a bit more than my E20 OM-MR-TC! It's true that now the strings are a bit dangerously close of the fretboard edge but that don't represent a problem for me. The feel now it's not exactly the same as in my 1-3/4" guitars as the fretboard still is narrower and you notice that, but nevertheless much much better than with the original 1-11/16" nut. I was rather happy with the result and I don't think anymore on selling the guitar. 
If you have a guitar with a 1-11/16" nut that is causing troubles to you or you always wanted to buy a 1-11/16" guitar like a Gibson J-45/L-00 or an Eastman Slope shoulder but didn't dare, maybe this little trick can work for you. It worked for me and it's a 100% reversible modification. One pic comparing the 2 nuts:

Hey! I'm new to Eastman; a friend of mine just bought a used AC222ce-ov and it played and felt phenomenal. Massive resonance that rivaled my high/mid tier Ts and Ms -- and she got it for around 650. The value for money ratio was incredible. So here I was planning for a trip overseas, and I was looking for a quality guitar to take with me that won't break the bank. I found an HE222ce on fb marketplace for 350, can anybody tell me what the specs are? I know it has a solid top, but I can't find much else about it other than an old post on this forum where someone mentioned it has a nitro finish. My biggest question: Is it an all solid guitar like the AC222ce?

Thanks in advance!
David Anderson

Ok chaps and chapesses - how would you remove a glued in saddle without heating the bridge/saddle?

Just bought a Eastman E6D TC off reverb for a killer price and it's the Alpine Spruce top version. Anyone know if these are worth anymore than the sitka top version? Also in live with the guitar since I set it up and strummed up, but the only downfall is it came with a taylor hard case and no SOA. Anyone know if I can get a new one?

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Has anyone played this model? I'm interested in this body size but I have an Iris MS-OO and I'm concerned it would be too similar in sound.

There seem to be different nut widths around too. Eastman say it's 1.75mm some dealers list it as 1.68 which is too narrow for me.

Hello,
     I just bought a used e22ss\v-sb and was wondering how to know what saddle I can buy .. I'd like to attempt to sand one down just a tad.. but I dont want to mess up the original..  thanks

Silly question but don’t want to mess it up. Guitar great but the action seems high to me. Can someone explain how which this bridge I safely lower please.
Thanks

I'm seriously thinking about getting an all-Koa guitar. I'm searching for another sound beyond the classic spruce top with rosewood or mahogany back and sides. I previously had 2 Martin all-mahogany guitars that I liked but ended selling both of them. First a Martin 000-15 mostly because I didn't like the 1 and 11/16 nut. Latter a fine Martin Parlor custom shop with a nice sound but it was a little quiet to me and I ended up preferring my Eastman E20P. I like all-Hog guitars but nowadays Eastman doesn't make any and probably doesn't plan to make it in the near future. I know that TomC is selling an E10 00-M 12 fret but I'm in Spain and the shipping and taxes most probably would ruin the price. 
On the other hand, recently Eastman has launched a new all-KOA guitar on the Luthier series, the L-00SS KOA-LTD. Another option in Eastman catalog is the AC622CE Koa, also a limited run, 300 in this case. They both have soundports, which I quite like and the AC622CE Koa even has an armrest. I asked Begnis Music (Italy) for 2 demos and they make 2 short iphone videos. The L-00SS sounds good but not a very different sound to my ears. The AC622CE Koa sounded somewhat more special to me, somewhat mellower. I read a thread about this guitar, and I also don't like the maple leaves inlay (lol) but it's not a deal breaker to me. On the other hand, the flamed maple neck looks nice. I have read in the forum that TomC had an AC822CE Koa that liked very much but had to sell. I would love to find a used one but I know this would be absolutely impossible, it was a very limited run of only 10 guitars. Any thoughts about these guitars, similar guitars, all-Koa or all-Mahogany guitars will be very welcome. Thanks and regards. A couple of pics of the guitars in question:

Hey everyone! First post on the forum.

Up until a few months ago I played entirely electric, but then I got an E1-D as my first real acoustic. It’s a tremendous improvement over the old laminate Sigma I had and it showed me what an acoustic should sound like.

Looking at the braces inside the guitar however they don’t look like spruce to me; the grain is much wider. Maybe it is and I don’t know what I’m looking at but I figured this forum had to know. The website simply says that it’s scalloped x-bracing but doesn’t say what it’s made of.

Thank you!