Long story short: Hate my Eastman, Love my Eastman, now that I see the work required to make it stable, I'll never sell it.
I hope not because I hear tone, unfortunately I'm having to pay through the nose to bring it out. This is all academic, because I'm never getting rid of it, even if it becomes my practice guitar. Either that or it's junk, and I'm getting 300 dollars for it. I can only hope that one day my Eastman is worth an obscene amount of money because of the tone and playablitiy. Eastman makes some crazy good archtops, but there are black sheep hanging out at the edge of the pastue. I have no idea if the newer Eastmans have had similiar issues all I can say is based purely on the acoustic tone of this guitar, I'm willing to drop the 500 bones to find out. The Orchestra body-style lends to an extended volume range that makes it a great choice for fingerstyle and ensemble. It touts a solid Sitka Spruce top, Rosewood back and sides, and hand-carved scalloped X bracingall for right around a grand. Maybe now my Eastman will live up to all of the promise I hear when I play it acoustically. This Eastman E8OM is hard to beat for the price. I Thank my stars that I have access to a local repair shop of such high quality. Now I'm sitting in the neighborhood of around 500 dollars for a setup, a new Lollar Johnny Smith pickup, a fret dress, a new set of Gotoh 1:18 tuners, a strap peg, and the pickguard repair. HOWEVER: He did immediately hear the tone and remarked that it had amazing sound quality. The feedback I recieved at the repair shop was that the pickup was very unbalanced, some frets weren't seated correctly, and that in general the setup was kind of "Frankenstein". So I took my little monster child down to the local guitar hospital whereupon I pretty much got the exact same prognosis I gave this thing in my earlier review. At any rate I never heard back from them. I was a little snotty in my email, but I mentioned as such, and I said why. I wrote(e mailed) the Eastman web site, and they didn't get back to me. Bear in mind that I play this thing between 4-8 hours a day that shouldn't make a difference, but might it? (that's why I even bring it up) Since my initial review, the pickguard has separated from the neck mount.
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