electric guitars

This amazing, comfortable-to-play guitar has become my main axe for over a year now! Any positive reviews you may read on the internet about how well made it is and/or how well it sounds are absolutely true!

Mine is a lefty of course and it is pretty much stock except I replaced the stock single coil pickups for some humbuckers I pulled from my Epiphone 335 Dot. Though I am left handed, I string all my guitars right handed... why? When I began learning to play guitar, I never much saw and never played a lefty until I had already been playing for nearly a decade.

I replaced the rear pickup control knobs with smoother tele style knobs because I rest the palm of my left hand on them a lot... it's just more comfortable. I also replaced the factory nut with a bone nut. Bone nuts on some guitars can add more sustain, more defined string definition and better string energy transfer into the guitar itself if it's done properly with 100% surface contact to the guitar.

Depending on many factors, like set up, wood species & etc... this can make a noticeable difference in tone & response, even with electric guitars. But remember bone is organic and may not have even density. So depending on the guitar, the bone and the fit, sometimes it's possible to yield poor results. Tusq brand nuts actually are superior in density consistancy, so it's a good choice for nut material.

I do want to comment that the factory single coils were perfectly great sounding pickups, but I was desiring more humbucker tone characteristics... which I got... but I intend to replace these with more powerful humbuckers down the road.

I use .013"-.052" EJ22 D'Addario string sets on this for a open G tuning. I substitute the string set's wound 3rd for a plain .018" string. This guitar, with the exception of a couple of tracks, was used on nearly every rhythm and solo track on my Slide-Ville CD. My signal chain for recording was as follows:

Tech21 Sans Amp GT2- Tweed settings
Line 6 Delay modeler
ART Studio Tube TPSII mic pre
ART VLA tube compressor

On stage I plug this guitar straight into a Fulldrive2 and then into my DR Z Carmen Ghia amp. Pretty straight forward. If you click on this website's home page, you can hear this awesome guitar at work for about 60 seconds.

Mike Robinson, owner/operator of Eastwood Guitars has a great reputation and does an honest business selling quality guitars at affordable prices. I first saw this guitar in a Montgomery Wards catalog when I was 11 years old. I thought it was cool back then and even cooler today. I can't wait to buy a few more of his Eastman guitars! Go visit Mike's intriguing website!