Sound Pure's Take
This brand-new model from Eastman is a wonderful hybrid of build styles, classic archtop tone and sensibility with a smaller body that limits the classic archtop issue of feedback. The mahogany back and sides produce a warm, stately tone with delightfully balanced mid-range. airy but pleasantly compressed highs and immediately responsive bass. Even when driven hard in a swing tune, this guitar maintains its tonal balance and gives you what you want from it, with nothing you don't. Plugged in, the Kent Armstrong humbucker provides a mellow, airy output that could almost, but not quite, be described as smoky. The dark burst that matches the mahogany back and sides make this guitar sure to turn a few heads, this is one of the more attractive Eastmans we've seen to date. And as always, you can't beat Eastman's quality-to-price ratio!
From Eastman Guitars
Carved Spruce top, solid carve mahogany back/sides with Rosewood bridge, tailpiece, pickguard and fretboard. Vintage tone with superior midrange and volume. Classic Venetian cutaway, floating pickup design.
Serial Number: 16850929
Neck Material: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Ebony
Fingerboard Radius: 12"
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Fretwire: 22-Jescar FW47104-P
Scale Length: 25"
Body Style: Venetian
Body Dimensions: 15" X 2 3/4"
Body Top: Solid Hand-Carved Spruce
Body Back/Sides: Solid Carved Mahogany
F-Holes: Yes
F-Hole Binding Material: Ivoroid Single Ply
Cutaway: Yes
Head Cap Veneer Material: Ebony
Truss Rod: Single Acting
Headstock Style: AR
Binding: Body, Neck, Head
Binding Material: 3-ply Ivoroid/Black, Single Ply
Logo Material: Maple
Inlay: None
Side Dot Color: Black
Hardware Color: Gold
Pickguard: Yes
Pickguard Material: Ebony
Pickguard Binding: None
Tailpiece: Trapeze-style
Tailpiece Material: Gold & Ebony
Bridge: Rosewood compensated, 2-3/32" Spacing
Tuners: Jinho RM-1271GVR 3+3
Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Jazz
Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan Jazz
Controls: Volume & Tone
Truss Rod Cover: Ebony
Tuning: E A D G B e
Case: Hardshell Case
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