Great sounding and playing all solid wood short scale OM guitar with finish checking (see below) thus the low price.
This doesn't need much description for the Eastman buffs out there. These are really, really nice instruments for the money. I've had several of these 500 series guitar in the last couple of years and they are always "headshakers" (how can they do that so cheap??)
This one was marked as a second because of finish checking in the top. If I had to guess, it happened on the way from the distributor to the store because there's not really any evidence it's been played. The only other imperfection on the guitar is a tiny chip out of the finish on the binding on the lower bass bout (can bee seen in one pic)
Zero fret wear, great neck angle, case in 9.8/10 condition with truss wrench in pocket. The nut is 1 3/4, but the spacing at the nut is 1 7/16 - closer to what a 1 11/16 would normally be. The saddle is a hair over 2 1/8 - scale length is 25"
I've just buffed out the entire body, cleaned and conditioned the fingerboard, polished the frets, tweaked the setup a bit and installed a fresh set of EJ16's.
I had awful lighting here today, so I had to resort to bright incandescent light on a hard angle to get the checking to show up - it's not nearly as bad in person as the pics make it out to be, but I wanted to show everything.
PRICE DROP TO 430 PLUS SHIPPING/PAYPAL
Firm price is 495 and actual shipping to the lower 48 only on my FedEx account. Add 10.00 for paypal and I'll cover the rest if you want to go that route. Will ship in it's original Eastman box with lots of extra padding!!
fitstop@charter.net
Again, sorry for the poor quality pics - it's an all day rain day here today and VERY gloomy.
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you can see a couple of the checks a little in this one....
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you can see the finish chip on the binding in the upper right here....
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And here are the finish checks - taken on a hard angle in incandescent light (except for the one of the bass side of the bridge) Makes them look MUCH worse than in person! I couldn't get them to show up in the natural light that was available today.
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hello,
I know (shipping only in the 48 states) but sending to Belguim?? with paypall and Ups sending?
If ok, let me know
chris.bellemans@pandora.be
Thanks
Quote from: christo on November 08, 2013, 06:50:00 AM
hello,
I know (shipping only in the 48 states) but sending to Belguim?? with paypall and Ups sending?
If ok, let me know
chris.bellemans@pandora.be
Thanks
Thanks for the offer, but no - sticking to the continental US.
I'd really like to move this today. I just dropped it a bit more to help with shipping.
Two reasons: First, I'm getting pretty hooked on it, and second, a serious family health issue arose yesterday.
This is a truly wonderful sounding and playing instrument. I'm on the verge of cutting a port in it and keeping it around for a while.
I'd like to ship this tomorrow, so one final drop to 450 and shipping/paypal....