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I thought I'd go for an alternative title instead of NGD as thats my style

Anyway I've been squirrelling money away for quite some time so I could buy myself a nice new guitar. I posted a few threads about different guitars and after all that I ended up with a guitar I don't think I mentioned.

I've wanted a hollow bodied guitar for ages and so I'm really happy with my new purchase:

Eastman T186mx in sunburst.

All solid woods, a solid wood block below the bridge, gotoh hardware and kent armstrong pickups (which incidentally sound really good).

I bought it second hand from a guy who works at Foulds in Derby, the guitar has been gigged and is a little bit beat up, but with a bit of polishing and what-not plays, sounds and looks great.

Anyway thats enough rambling, here's some pics:










Cheers

Gabe

Gold hardware aside, thats a fantastic looking guitar. I've always wanted a semi-hollow bodied guitar in that 335 shape

Haze wrote:Gold hardware aside, thats a fantastic looking guitar.

my thoughts exactly

Looks cool.

I don't think the gold is that bad. I've come to the conclusion that gold hardware only looks good on SGs though.

i don't like the horns or the gold hardware.

WOULDN'T.

Congrats on the purchase!

I've yet to play a non-laminate archtop of any sort, and would love to hear what you think of it.

Beautiful.

Eastmans are the best non-boutique archtops available today. They easily surpass anything made in the 50s - wonderful instruments.

headstock kinda reminds me of those old gibson top-tension banjos:

ultratwin wrote:I've yet to play a non-laminate archtop of any sort, and would love to hear what you think of it.

They're slighty different, its more acoustic sounding. The feel and amplified sounds are pretty close but you have a bit more depth, it's hard to explain but the bass and treble are stronger which gives the clean sound a great level of warmth, sounds great.

Justin J wrote:headstock kinda reminds me of those old gibson top-tension banjos

The headstock was the one thing I disliked about the guitar, it suits it I guess but I'm so used to guitars with smaller headstocks.

On a whole I'm loving the guitar and cheers for the compliments

It looks great. I don't mind the gold hardware or the headstock. Gold hardware is forgivable on nice archtops somehow.

Bump for the new pictures, had good light today so I couldn't help it.

Nice looking guitar.

For some reason, i just dont like flamed out or nice finishes. not saying i like beat up "relic" guitars. idk maybe this stems from my subconscious not wanting me to have nice things.

Wow, that is beautiful! I'm not normally into flamed tops, but that's an exception. Very classy.