![]() ![]() The playability and quality of a good modern The Eastwood Airline Espanada is based onĪ sound premise-to build a new guitar with Or something darker for chord-melody-style It’s easy to dial in a warm but cutting toneįor single-note lines in a Grant Green mold, Solo to punk-rock downstroked eighth-notes.Īnd lends itself nicely to jazz explorations. The bridge pickup’s tone canīe quite aggressive and responds well to everything With excellent clarity and fairly uniform note-to-note output. The guitar has a robust, transparent voice High-output P-90-style pickups sound great. Great playability and tones in a guitar that’s dressedĬraftsmanship should be much better at this price. Vintage Harmony instruments of this type.īut though it’s outfitted with fairly lightīig hollowbodies) isn’t an instrument that’s Which is something you can’t say about all Single-note lines and barre chords alike, It is, however, well balancedĪnd very comfortable to play either seated Light for some solidbodies) it isn’t exactlyįeatherweight. Guitar, but at 7.3 pounds (which might be Would be nice to see tighter quality control.Įastwood describes the Espanada as a light We’ve grown accustomed to improved qualityĮspanada’s $999 price tag and the quality And inside the guitar there’s sawdust left Not as neatly cut as one would expect them toīe. Plastic parts-especially the pickguard-are The finish is irregular in spots,Įspecially around the f-holes. The Espanada is built well where it counts,īut it could use more attention to detail inĪ few areas. Instead of throwing on a conventional trapeze, Reproduced the original harp-style tailpiece Vintage-spec sticklers might argue that vintage-style, open-geared tuners with smaller Outfitted with modern Grover-style tuners. Hardware: Instead of an unreliable wooden When it came to several critical pieces of Is spruced up a touch with a black pinstripe Pickguard retains the original’s shape but The Espenada to collectors remain intact, Nut make for a comfortable, spacious-feeling ![]() Than the original) and Gibson-ish 1.6875" Theįender-like 25 1/2" scale (just a hair longer Is solid maple with a rosewood fretboard. ![]() The top and backįrom laminated mahogany, and the set-neck Has delivered a great-playing hollowbody thatīrims with vintage authenticity, even if itĭoesn’t deliver all of the mojo of the original. Reinterpretation (or reissue, depending onĮastwood, which has been revisiting oddball Silvertone) the subject of collector affections. That enduring appealīuilt for companies like Kay, Airline, and The next six decades, would propel everythingĪuerbach’s fuzz riffs. The Meteor, Rocket, and others that, over Maker in the United States at the time-didĪ remarkable job of filling the void withĪffordable hollow and semihollow guitars like Some of rock ’n’ roll’s greatestīerry reeled and rocked with an ES-350, andĪ Gretsch 6120. ![]()
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