Yes, please!!!!  ....Anyone else want one?


https://www.guitarworld.com/features/mar...readnought

Anyone familiar with this 12 fretter?  Played one?  Love to hear your thoughts

Hi there, i am new to this forum and played many fantastic Eastman archtops but never an acoustic although I seen videos and they are great.
Finally i pulled the trigger and bought an E40OM-TC, i believe that in Eastman web pages they are described like 24.9 scale guitars. Does any one can confirm they are 25.4?
Also heard a comparison in youtube in which the Tonelite system has a fatter tone in comparison to the old neck joint.
Regards to everyone.

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Did anyone know Eastman was doing a black top version of the E2D? I'm not a huge fan of the look, but it's definitely interesting and something new.

Eastman E2D-BK M2223853 https://reverb.com/item/64851966-eastman...t=64851966

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Bought my first Eastman just before the new year (E8OM) and cannot believe the quality and tone at such a price point. Went in to my LGS to possibly buy another Taylor, but after taking a little test drive with it, I knew it had to come home with me. No regrets so far.

So I am finally an Eastman owner with the purchase of a T186MX from Fuller Guitars in Houston. I can't believe how amazing the quality of this instrument is.








The 2 previous best guitars in my arsenal are a Fender Baja Telecaster and a Yamaha LL16D acoustic. This is on a completely higher plane than those 2 (which I also love). 

I'm 6'3" and the scale of my Tele gets cramped as I move up the neck. I absolutely LOVE the geometry of this neck  - there is nowhere on the neck where I feel I am running out of real estate.

The Bareknuckle pickups sound awesome, but I haven't really had a lot of time experimenting with different tones yet.

The binding is solid wood and not plastic. The only "finish" issues I see is that the f-holes look like they have some very small areas where stain got on the white. I'll try to grab a pic of that later.

To say I am on cloud 9 with this guitar is an understatement.

Posted this on the acoustic forum but thought some might be interested here as well.

Warning, long waffling, sleep deprived post… I love my sigma SDR-28MLE so much I wanted something similar for alt tunings but in the 14fret dreadnought body shape with a 1-3/4 nut and normal sale length.

I can’t spend big at present as I have other commitments and diminishing funds (inflation + kids = guitar poverty) so I started looking at Eastman and Sigma and whilst I love my Eastman E20P I find Eastman tone is slightly more modern than the all solid Sigma series in general.

I’ve learnt to love the neck on my Sigma so I started browsing their dreadnoughts and I spotted the SDR-45 for a good price online. It can get confusing and Sigma (AMI) have made to my knowledge at least 5 previous versions of a 14 fret D-45 style guitar, namely the:

DR-45 - Solid sitka top, Indian fingerboard, Indian rosewood back and sides (not solid), 1-11/16 nut.
DR-45E - As above with built in Electronics.
DT-45 - Solid spruce top/laminated Tilia back and sides, micarta board, 1-3/4 nut.
SDR-45YEARS - A limited edition all solid Adirondack/Indian rosewood dreadnought, ebony bridge, torch headstock, 1-11/16 nut.
SD-50 - A very limited all solid European spruce/cocobolo, 45 style trim all over with snowflake inlays, ebony bridge,1-3/4 nut.

I wasn’t interested in the laminate models (I still have some dignity), 1-11/16 nut or Cocobolo which left only the SDR-45, but this time the specs looked near perfect:

SDR-45 - D-14 Fret

Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides: Solid Indian Rosewood
Neck: Mahogany, Low Profile
Nut & Saddle: Bone
Fingerboard & Bridge: Ebony
Scale Length: 25.4” (645 mm)
Neck width at nut: 1-3/4” (44,5 mm)
Truss Rod: Two way Truss Rod
Tuning Machines: Grover Gold Open-Gear w/ Butterbean Knobs
Finish: Polished Gloss w/ Aging Toner
Soft-shell Case: SSC-D included
Strings: D´Addario EXP16

I was disappointed to see only a soft shell case included as my SDR-28MLE had a decent hard case included although to be fair it’s a very limited model and would be considerably more expensive than the SDR-45 if Sigma ever made any more.

I took the plunge and ordered one sight unseen from a large UK retailer. I also ordered a sigma hard case, as a D-45 style guitar in a soft shell case just seemed wrong like pairing a Hugo boss suit with slippers. I was somewhat alarmed and felt a little nauseous when I opened the big brown box to find absolutely no packaging at all, just the guitar in a soft shell case! Unfortunately I had no chance to play it due to work, I simply just checked it was in one piece, took a few snaps and and then put it away. When I opened the case I was immediately taken aback by the look of the guitar, it looked so much better than the horribly generic online retailer pictures which make this guitar look tacky. I couldn’t sleep last night as I was Childishly excited and got up at 6 this morning to inspect the guitar and tune it up…

…People… this thing is incredible!!! I’m not usually one for hyperbole but this guitar has stunned me and I have played many top flight guitars over the years including many 40 series Martins. I really hate coated strings and even with these strings this guitar sounds incredible. It rings like a flippin’ bell, so deep, warm and resonant but with those chimey sounds that one associated with the 40 series martins. It nails that Neil Young tone, I thought my SDR-28MLE was close tonally but this thing is near perfect.

It has a very different sound profile to my Adi/Madi Sigma, I can’t wait to change the strings to my beloved Thomastik over the coming days and properly compare these bad boys. Initial thoughts are that the SDR-28MLE has a more direct and fundamental tone where as the SDR-45 has that deep, enveloping big bass sound but I’ll now more when I can compare properly with fresh strings on both.

I’ll try and get a few pics up that I took yesterday but will hopefully get some better ones in the coming week and swap them out. Anyway if you are looking for an all solid dreadnought especially a 40 series Martin style dreadnought and don’t have/want to spend £5000-£11000 on a 40 series Martin you could do worse than look at this model. I think they are being discontinued and I don’t think they will produce a guitar of this quality at this price again.

Some pics, couldn’t get a good one of the back because it’s so reflective!

So I was watching this video online about John Chapman's guitar personal guitar collection in which he shows his top three guitars.  His top guitar is a prewar Martin D18 that can probably sell for over $60 thousand dollars.  But the awesome surprise (or not if you've seen him posting here) was that his 2nd and 3rd favorite guitars were both Eastmans!  I won't ruin the surprise and let folks watch the video, but for someone with access to just about any guitar, I was great to see how much he enjoys the Eastman guitars.