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Post subject: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:03 pm
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I want an airline, but i can't find a dealer near me... i reeeeeeeeeeally hate ordering guitars online, but i reeeeeeeeeally want the airline... anybody ever order from the website and if so, how was it? and can anybody recommend a dealer in the Los Angeles area?

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:53 pm
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Mike Robinson has talked with me when I have called Eastwood/ My Rare Guitars, he was always very friendly and told me that I could purchase directly from the web-site or buy through a distributor locally. Now I'm working on the lounge guitar but after that I hope that there is a new Supro in my future, lol. :D

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:09 am
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I had an Airline Tuxedo - didn't bond with it and sold it after about a year. Nice looking guitar though.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:44 am
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voodoochile98 wrote:
I want an airline, but i can't find a dealer near me... i reeeeeeeeeeally hate ordering guitars online, but i reeeeeeeeeally want the airline... anybody ever order from the website and if so, how was it? and can anybody recommend a dealer in the Los Angeles area?


Did you bother checking their website?

http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/index.ph ... california

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 4:30 am
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I played one a few weeks ago. Very nice guitar, I was rather suprised for some reason. The neck was just he cat's $@!!


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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:40 am
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Eastwood does some pretty decent repros of Airlines, Supro's etc.
Here's my real 63 Supro Martinique. It's Resoglass, the Eastwoods are wood. Very cool guitars any way you look at it.


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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 4:35 pm
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Don't do it. They're utter garbage.
Honestly.
Unless you're prepared to put serious work into getting an instrument that is half playable, they are simply not an option. Got my Mach 2 a year ago tomorrow. After a day I was ready to bin it I was so frustrated.
Tune the strings open, fine, fret a chord, terrible. Checked the intonation, not great but ok. Then I noticed that half the strings were cut to sail clear over the zero fret and not fret against it as they should.
Neck pocket so badly aligned I couldn't shim it and get it stable. I ended up having to carve a new floor for the neck pocket. Just so I could get a decent enough break angle from the stop bar to the bridge so that the strings didn't sitar in the saddles. It's not even like I use a low action.
Pickups so bad, I heard them once and tore them out. OK the neck pickup is back in place but disconnected.
Finally, after weeks of wondering why I couldn't get the intonation on the thing spot on, I realise the bridge is on backwards, from the factory.
After a year with it, tomorrow I'm going to re-radius the fretboard. Because a 36" radius and skinny short frets is really no good for any kind of comfort.
The only saving graces of the guitar is that it looks half decent and if someone stole it, I wouldn't be too bothered.

I took my issues to Mike whats his name. I didn't voice them as a complaint. I was offering advice. I included in one of my emails to him that I wasn't after anything. I simply wanted him to be aware of the problems I'd faced and do something about em. Cos I'm handy with a set up and some nut files. A 16 year old kid probably aint.

As soon as he read that, I heard no more from him. Not a thank you, not a sorry, not nothing.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 5:04 pm
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OK the neck pickup is back in place but disconnected.


Just like Mr.Ramone, himself.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:28 am
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I've played a couple that were just fine. A Dual Tone and P-90 Special. Liked them both. I could have had a P-90 Special used for $250 at GC but I just bought my LP Studio 60's Tribute with P-90's. I try not to duplicate guitar tones. I'm sorry I passed on it. I like cheap guitars. I think they're fun and I have a few. It boils down to if you like it and bond with it get it.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:50 am
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That level of quality control has nothing to do with bonding Supro. It was nothing short of downright shoddy as was the company owners attitude.
You get better quality from the Chinese knock offs on Tradetang.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:56 am
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Niki, why not send it back? Seems unlike you to keep a piece of garbage.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:17 am
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Only bought it for the looks, really.
And all the problems didn't present themselves at once. Getting the slot files on a new guitar is par for the course as far as I'm concerned. I had to do that with my Custom Shop guitar and my Mexi Tele. OK thats my personal preference. But when I recognised the problem, being something well within my ability and something I'm more than prepared to do. I got the nut files out without thinking. Then the warranty is void. Once that problem was solved, it was intonation, then the neck alignment. Before I knew where I was, I'd put a couple of full shifts of work into the thing.
What do I do, bin a guitar I love the look of or persevere and try and get something usable out of the wood?

What really got me was the poor attitude of the company. I can forward you the emails. My intentions were well above board. I knew I'd wrecked the guarantee. I simply wanted them to be aware of the problems with that guitar. To stop any more coming from the factory in that condition. Like I said, all accountability, all decency went out the window as soon as they/he realized my intentions and that there was no need to buy me off.

I looked at reviews before I bought it. All I can say is that the company must have bought the reviewers. One fella states that when they changed the guitar name from the Mach 2 to the Elite Jr (which is the one I have) they changed the bridge pickup from a Dimarzio FS1 to their own pickup that was built to the same spec and output. He wasn't happy with that, so Mike sent him a Dimarzio FS1.
Hence my thinking that the company were OK.

What I will say, to offer unbiased argument in support of my cause, that is entirely speculative. Why aren't these guitars more popular? Every guitarist I've met this last year is sick of the same old thing out of the big 2. You'd think these brilliant looking machines would be selling like hotcakes if they were any good.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:31 am
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Niki, I'm not arguing with you at all. To be fair, the guitars I played from Eastwood were owned by other people who never said a word to me about the setup. With a Zero Nut, the intonation should be really nice. My original 63 Supro has one and the intonation is still great after 50 years. Mine doesn't have a truss rod adjustment either. I've never had any problems with it.
Glad to see you got it all sorted out from a playability standpoint.

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:54 am
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More work has started today. Pulled the frets out. Gotta get rid of that flat fretboard. One thing I am with such things is decisive. I've tried for a year to get used to it and I can't.
Going down to a 9.5" radius like all my favourite guitars.

I'm not arguing mate. I was aggrieved at the time. More because I was given the distinct impression that the company don't give a toss once they have a sale.
People go on about Fender customer relations, I think they don't know how lucky they are to get the level of response they do out of a company of such magnitude.
I don't think that Eastwood should be allowed to potentially get away with treating some young kid the same way. Selling them a POS and then not wanting to know as soon as they see a get out.
I consider the £490 I paid for that, then look at what I could get out of Fender or Gibson for the same. You can get a LP JR for that money or a damn nice Telecaster. A Blues JR or a Marshall 40 watt DSL.
If you really shop around, you may even find a 4x12 cab from Marshall for that money. :(

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Post subject: Re: Eastwood/Airline
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:01 pm
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I have an Eastwood Airline 59 1P that I absolutely love. traded my fender strat (classic 60s, CAR) for it about 6 months ago and haven't regretted it a bit. This guitar is only the second guitar out of about 40 I've owned that I plan to keep forever...
Niki, I'm sorry to hear you've had such a bad experience.... that sucks hard. I emailed Mike about something I was curious about and got a response within 2 hours. very nice to me, if a bit short... but I figure he's a busy man.
I guess it's like every other guitar company, including fender, there's always going to be some "friday afternoon" guitars out there. but mine is the bees knees. can't say enough good things about it. Love this guitar.
mine was purchased from ROCK BLOCK in nashville by the guitarist from the turbo fruits... he'd only had it a few months when I got it. pretty cool meeting the dude... and now seeing his band in rolling stone and such. weird stuff. :)

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