It has your basic Dalmatian pickguard solid Adirondack spruce top solid mahogany back and sides, a 25' scale length, 1 13/16' nut width for the smile of comfort, a natural finish, and it retires each evening to its rather nice hard shell case.

How can this be? We don’t know either but we’re not going to rock the boat and tell anybody at Eastman that they’re practically “giving these guitars away.” And they sound so darn good, too. We are well aware of what most contemporary manufacturers charge for this stuff – holy cow – they charge for only the Adirondack just about what we’re selling this whole guitar and the hard shell case for. Ni identified the need for hand crafted arch top guitars at an affordable price. Both functional and stylish, the AR680CE is outfitted with an attractive cello style tailpiece, Schaller tuners with ebony buttons, wood volume and tone knobs, an ebony pickguard, and a maple, magnetically fastened truss rod cover. Eastman Strings had been accepted as high quality handcrafted instruments, so Mr.

Oh sure, you can point to the Adirondack spruce top – go ahead – point! And yes, in our opinion all guitars should be provisioned with Adirondack tops when they are born since this gloriously resonant wood makes the type of top that the C F Martin Guitar Company used during their Golden Period of 1934 to 1944 (on their spruce top guitars). The body is very comfortable, with a 16' lower bout and 2 3/4' depth and the scale length is an easy playing 25'. #121228912, solid mahogany sides and back, with hard shell case.Įastman has done it again – they have come out with another incredible sounding guitar for under a thousand dollars.

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