I ordered a Les Paul Traditional Pro IV online for $1500.00, always wanted one. When I got it I plugged it into my Princeton Bordeaux (PRRI with a 1x12) and was ready to be taken to blues Nirvana. What I got was a very sterile uninspired sound. Even the coil switches didn't do to much for me. The fact that the maple cap was more uninspiring than the sound, and the fact that is was $1500, made the decision to box it up a no brainer. My GAS not satisfied I decided to cruise Craigs list and happened upon a "Dual Tone" Deluxe. Now if you look at the video demos of this guitar you find plenty of the finger style blues and rock variety. Always wanting a guitar that I could leave tuned to G so I could jam out on some blues and slide, I decided to give the gent a visit and see what this guitar was about. It was tuned to standard E and I happened to have a flat pick, so I switched to the neck pickup, set his amp to clean and broke of a little La Grange using Billy's hybrid picking style. I tried to keep my negotiating face on but it was replace by a big smile. Out of that amp came that creamy yet gritty Les Paul blues sound I had been seraching for, and then some! I turned up the gain and was transported to that famous ranch in texas. With business done I brought it home and plugged it into my Princeton, Blues Nirvana. The Moral of the Story? Yeah it does everything the videos say it does. As for all of the flat pick BB King fans out there, check out this guitar. It will not disapoint

The airline map Bass in the color seafoam has been my desired dream instrument for the past 5 years. I was Fortunate to sut in with a band in a night club, where their bass guitarist owned a seafoam colored bass. This took place while my wife & I were on vacation in Williamsburg Virginia.

Wow...!

I am determined to own one someday, in the near future.

I purchased this guitar so that I would have something a little different. Wow! What a pleasant surprise at such a reasonable price. I already have a Sidejack DLX, so, I knew it would be ok, but wow!



This guitar was well set up straight from the box and has a good action and very bright and sensitive pickups. Tonal variations are excellent and varied.



In addition, the service from Eastwood is superb. I ordered the guitar online via the website and four days later it's arrived at my door IN AUSTRALIA,!!! Simply amazing. Eastwood guitars is a tremendous company to deal with. They take real pride in what the do and manufacture.



I will be certainly Ben buying more Eastwood/Airline guitars for sure in the future.

Love it! very cool guitar

Loved it. The pleasant surprise is how useful it is for recording. A track of the mandola in place of an acoustic or electric guitar track really widens the mix. Sounds fantastic plugged in direct. If you make a model with octave strings and I'm there for that.

I'm so happy with this guitar, it's perfect. The craftsmanship is top notch and very professional as good as anything you can buy for big money. I own several guitars including world-class expensive guitars in this competes with those perfectly. Anybody would be very happy with these.



Having the roller bridge is an excellent idea with the Bigsby. Stays in tune very very well in the pick ups are amazing.



Will definitely be buying more of these guitars from this company.

I love my new Eastwood Resonator Guitar. Still playing with it. Trying to learn how to blend the guitar from that clean sound to that twang unique sound. I got a GREAT deal on the guitar by submitting my final offer and they went for it. The color is Black & White with chrome. I am playing it with a Fender Jr. Tube Blues amp and the guitar sounds awesome........



I always take all of my guitars in to a guy name Bob at at Sam Ash in Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley in the Canoga Park store. Bob has been setting up all of my guitars for the passed 15 years. He setup the intonation and replaced the strings with resonators. The guitar plays really nice now. Me being a Lefty, I rarely come across a guitar that I really like. Eastwood has a good selection of Left handed guitars which really surprised me.



I only wish that they could supply the owners manual with it that tells more about the guitar.

This guitar is gorgeous and it plays and sounds great. I had wanted this one for a long time, and now that it���s here, it���s even nicer than I had hoped. The five-ply binding is fantastic, the paint is very nearly perfect. Even the setup was good right out of the box.



The neck binding was spot on, and the frets nicely polished; the inlays were gap free. The fret ends could use a little filing, but the heat has been on, and that���s true for a couple of my newer guitars. I���ve got to get a humidifier in the case and you should, too.



The gold foil pickups were a real surprise. I played it acoustically for the first couple of days after it first arrived, then through headphones and a practice amp, and all that was great. When I plugged into my Blues Junior, though, it was revelatory with a touch of dirt on it. You can do a lot with three tone and three volume controls to dial in your sound.



If you���re thinking about getting this guitar, just pull the damn trigger already. Some of these guys are picking nits about the details, but this isn���t a $3,500 custom shop guitar. You can always take a marker to the F-hole if it bothers you, or use an emery board on the edges of the pup cavities. It���s clearly as good if not better than the new Gretsch guitars at my local shop, and very much cooler.



Go on, you know you wanna...

This is a difficult review to make because I own several Eastwood Airline guitars including the map, tuxedo and 3p. First off, the body of this guitar looks even better in person than in pictures. The tone and playability of this guitar is excellent. Where this guitar loses points is in some of the details...details that were not overlooked on other Airlines I own. First, the binding along the neck is sloppy, the tortoise shell cover on the headstock was not secured fully, the metal bracket that holds the pick guard is not grounded and creates clicks and pops through the amp, the lower f hole under the pick guard is not painted under the pick guard but is everywhere else (indicating that the individual who did that was not detailed enough to remove the pick guard to complete the job) and the fretwork on the bass side of the neck is uneven at best. Are these details that one can live with? Yes. Are they details that make me wonder if this guitar is worth the money? Unfortunately, yes! There are a lot of hollowbody/semihollow guitars out there and for a company who really pushes the idea of buying a guitar online, site unseen, these details need to be taken care of to maintain a customer base. Will I keep this guitar instead of returning it and wait for another model that may or may not have the same or similar issues? Yes...the guitar sounds that good! However, my faith in buying a guitar without playing it is officially spoiled. I may buy another Eastwood guitar in the future because I do like the styles and sounds they are recreating but it more than likely will be in a guitar shop that carries Eastwood...which is fairly rare in my neck of the woods. For reference, I purchased my map dlx in the same way and was extremely impressed with the process because the guitar looked great, played great and was set up beautifully (even with a trip across the country in sub zero temperatures). The h78 did not give me that same feeling of success (tone aside). I plan on updating my review once I've had the guitar for a few months. Also for a reference point to this review, I play in a blues/rock band and gig locally somewhere between 10 and 20 shows per year. I use a few pedals, mostly overdrive and fuzz through a Marshall dsl40 and fender bassbreaker15.

I picked this little beauty up on recommendation from Glasvegas bassist Paul Donoghue who used it on the first Americas tour. Shorter scale for a smaller guy like me...well balanced and sits perfectly. My other bass is a Fender P bass and although it has a slightly thicker sound...the Map is my go-to Bass 75% of the time.

Very impressed with the looks and quality of the instrument. It was what I was looking for and can't wait to play it more and more. I am very happy with this guitar.

Got the H78 a couple of weeks ago, it came in a really nice hard shell case. Opened the case and WOW what a beauty, gorgeous guitar, love the finish.

Came setup perfectly, nice and low action, not too low though. Seems really well built, couldn���t spot a single flaw in fit and finish, frets level no fret buzz and fret ends nice and smooth. Neck is quite slim c profile and really comfortable to play. The Bigsby is nice and the roller saddles are a really nice touch. Everything stays in tune well.



Really like the pickup switching and the pickups deliver big time. Gorgeous clean tones from every pickup position/combination. They do produce a bit of that single coil hum but nowhere as much as you would get from your average strat single coils. When overdriven they produce a humbucker like sound, very full and thick. All in all just really versatile guitar handles everything from smooth jazz to blues and rock. Highly recommended!

Works great! High quality much better then any standard cable. Looks great too.

Hello, Just wanted to say thank you . Also I love what you are doing, these are the guitars my brother and I grew up loving, but not just because they were cheap but were awesome guitars even beyond the flaws. Now to have them also play the way high quilty guitars should is wonderful. The setups being done mean so much hard to overstate that. Thanks Again .

I've had mine for about a month and a half, now, and had the chance to play enough to share my impressions:

Mine came set up well, and close to standard tuning out of the box. It was a B-stock, but I've failed to find any supposed blemishes in the finish (as described). It sounds better, I think, with a 2x10" or a 2x12" cab (maybe because you can hear some bottom that's not as present with a 1x12", as some reviewers have noted). It might be a little thin and trebly if all you use is say, a Blues Jr. or Champion 600-type amp. Mine has it's fullest voice through my SF TwinReverb or Carvin X100B w/2x12". Plenty of tweed grit with the gain up on middle/neck, too....

This'll never be my 'play-the-whole-show' guitar (20 frets precludes wailing in a couple of keys, for me), but it has a great voice for T-Bone Walker through Crazy Horse type stuff(!)....

Here's my complaint with this otherwise '5 star' stage-guitar: mine, at least, is wired in such a way that ALL 3 tone pots affect any/all pickups; they are ~not~ each dedicated to their own pickup as you might hope or assume. That was a real disappointment to discover, but I'm not going to spend $100 to return it over that (I may pay a similar amount to someone nearby with a shop to re-wire them properly, though, since I can't get my hand inside an f-hole guitar). I have 17 guitars right now (this is my 4th Eastwood/Airline, along with a CalRebel, a lap steel, and a Stormbird), and this one and my Blueshawk are the only ones I can't get inside of.....sigh!

This is a good-sounding, offbeat guitar; somewhere between a Gretch White Falcon and a ES-335, and I'd recommend it to any blues guys/classic rockers/rockabillies, tone-pot issue notwithstanding.

I had a blind date with this guitar, having just seen it online and reading many good reviews. I love it so far; it's comfortable to play, well-made, lovely tone, and the Bigsby is awesome.

Playing guitar is a hobby of mine, but I never invested a lot of money into it. I don't play gigs, I don't even play with other people I just like to noodle around sometimes. I finally have the means to put some money into an instrument, obviously it was the Airline Tuxedo, and I couldn't be happier. The tone and the range of sounds this guitar is capable of is unbelievable. If you play it well you are rewarded with a very rich sound it's very fulfilling. So it's weird but in a way the guitar doesn't just make me sound better it makes me play better. It at least makes me try harder to play better.

Playing guitar is a hobby of mine, but I never invested a lot of money into it. I don't play gigs, I don't even play with other people I just like to noodle around sometimes. I finally have the means to put some money into an instrument, obviously it was the Airline Tuxedo, and I couldn't be happier. The tone and the range of sounds this guitar is capable of is unbelievable. If you play it well you are rewarded with a very rich sound it's very fulfilling. So it's weird but in a way the guitar doesn't just make me sound better it makes me play better. It at least makes me try harder to play better.

I decided to start buying my strings directly from Eastwood/Airline because the strings that I get at my local music store just don't have the same "feel". I went ahead and bought 6 sets so both guitars will have three changings.

Playing guitar is a hobby of mine, but I never invested a lot of money into it. I don't play gigs, I don't even play with other people I just like to noodle around sometimes. I finally have the means to put some money into an instrument, obviously it was the Airline Tuxedo, and I couldn't be happier. The tone and the range of sounds this guitar is capable of is unbelievable. If you play it well you are rewarded with a very rich sound it's very fulfilling. So it's weird but in a way the guitar doesn't just make me sound better it makes me play better. It at least makes me try harder to play better.