June 2018 is officially “Eastman month” at The Twelfth Fret! All instock Eastman instruments – guitars, mandolins, ukuleles and banjos are featured at special pricing. When it comes to building a guitar, there is a big difference between assembly and artistry. If history taught Eastman anything, it is that there is no substitute for skilled craftsmanship. At Eastman, each instrument is given the attention to detail required to ensure that it reaches its maximum potential. Features such as hand-scalloped bracing
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This is a spectacular instrument – a 2008 Eastman MDC805 Mandocello in near-perfect condition.
MORE →Eastman’s El Rey – “The King” – guitar is designed to deliver “classic jazz archtop tone in a lightweight, resonant 14 inch body”. Along the way, this design also has excellent feedback resistance at volume.
MORE →Eastman has been building many of the highest quality, affordable instruments for some time now. Here is a very clean, near mint 2006 Eastman John Pisano archtop electric. One of the best values in jazz boxes under $4000!
MORE →Here’s a great-condition 2010 Eastman Dawg mandolin. There aren’t a lot of successful, innovative mandolin designs, with the traditional — though in their day, radical, innovative and groundbreaking — A and F styles being the most common.
MORE →Left-handed instruments are hard enough to find – just try to find a left-hand archtop cutaway jazz guitar – wait, here’s an excellent one! Featuring the distinctive, offset Pagelli body plus carved solid (not laminate) spruce top and heavily-flamed back.
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