I took the time to set up this guitar. Put new strings on it (10s) and tweaked it slightly. It was a breeze to set up this guitar. The frets were perfect, no sharp edges and the truss rod adjusted easily. Intonation was smooth and predictable.



Ok so here was the test. I took it to practice, plugged it into my 67 Deluxe Reverb and could not believe how good it sounded. Cleans were distinctive and with a little dirt the guitar just shined. We played a bunch of stuff and it worked for everything. I did not expect this. I thought this would be a one (maybe two) trick pony but I played it for the entire practice. It was so f@&king versatile, I was blown away.



I have 21 other guitars and this baby is up there with the best of them. I can't wait to see how this plays once it is broken in.

When I received this guitar I was surprised and how they really nailed the vibe of the old H76. It needed a setup but everything I buy needs a setup because I am really picky. The action was actually too low, with absolutely no buzzing. I am going to keep it there to see if I can get used to it. Plays great, has nice tone leaning towards the higher frequencies.



A few minor problems. First the f-holes are way too big, the routing around the pickups was rough, and the pots were not installed as carefully as they could have been. Believe me this stuff is really minor and should not dissuade you from buying this guitar. It is a lot of fun, looks fantastic, and is really versatile. It in on par quality wise with the Epi special editions that came out in 2013.



I would definatly buy another airline/eastwood based on this cool instrument.

I knew this guitar would not have a huge bass response in it. A lot of the you tube reviews I watched seemed to be very accurate as far as what you can get out of this guitar for tone.



I do not have another guitar that has this much top end and I quite like it. I would say it is not the most versatile guitar, but what it does, it does pretty well.



Pros

-Wood finish, grain and colour are very well done.

-Great tone for more treble and chime-sounding stuff.

-Very playable. No weird intonation or difficulty in making adjustments.

-Great quality for the price.



Cons

-Tuners feel cheap. I had to tighten a couple of them right out of the box.

-Set up was not great. Actually, I found I had same problem when receiving my Tux Deluxe too.

-Heavy body. Like really heavy for it's depth and size.

-Related to its weight, the neck feels disproportionately skinny and small.

-This may be fussy, but the knobs for volume and tone feel like the cheapest kind of plastic you can buy. They feel brittle and porous. They also look cheap, which sort of cheapens the overall look.

-Toggle switches also feel cheap and they don't operate that smoothly. Almost like they have a grain of sand stuck in them or something.



Like I said - some of my cons are pretty fussy things that most people couldn't care less about.



I expect I will replace the tuners, knobs and toggle switches at some point, but overall, I really like the way this thing sounds.

Mine arrived yesterday. I always expect to tweak a new guitar but the setup was surprisingly good right out of the box. 1/4 turn raise of the bridge on the treble side and I was ready to go. Took a little experimenting to figure out the controls (tone, volume, volume) but it plays and sounds good. I owned a mid-60's National Map but it had many problems. This one has the looks of the original but without the hassles. This one will need a little sanding on the fretboard to smooth it out but, other than that, this is an excellent instrument. Look forward to playing it.

This was my first Eastwood Airline guitar and I really enjoy it. The look is good and fit and finish just right everywhere. The sound, played acoustic, is good and that's always a great sign on an electric guitar. It's a bit deeper than an LP but lighter because it's hollow. The single coil pickups sound great and the guitar plays like buttah. Other than some setup tweaks the only change I made was a bone nut (personal preference). If you want something different this is a great guitar and the price is right.

My relationship with this guitar started off as complicated. I build guitars as a hobby - but in a agreement with my wife I have a 4 guitar stand rule. 4 stands = 4 guitars - no more, as a result I end up selling more than a few.



When I discovered Eastwood / Airline I immediately fell in love with the concept. To say they are simply beautiful reproductions is a huge understatement, I really admire the business model, the insight, the reintroduction of important guitars to a new generation.



My first Airline was a Bighorn - I loved the beauty and faithfulness of the design but had a hard time with some of the mechanics. While I loved the dynamic range of the Argyle pickups I struggled with my perception of inconsistent tuning.



Eastwood is an unusual guitar company in they are extremely customer responsive. I asked if it would be possible for a switch to the Twin Tone and they agreed to the switch, no questions asked.



As with any guitar out of the box, a set-up is probably a good idea. However, I procrastinated and while at first had a tough time with the action , I just kept playing it . The more I played it the more I began to understand it. As it is it plays as a beautiful blues guitar, great for bending down pull offs.



The Twin Tone has many attributes. It is faithful to the Supro design and really looks spectacular. It it probably the most comfortable guitar I���ve ever picked up. It nestles into your body like a comfy old sweater. The hot rail humbuckers are thirsty. Tons of tone and features a crispy to warm tonal range.



My inclination initially was that it would be hard for this guitar to make the four stand rule. The more I play it, the more likely I���ll be looking at it for years to come.

Hello everyone,



This is the review for the Airline H77 by Eastwood.

First off, let's talk about customer service and shipping time.

It only took a couple days for the guitar to get here, the box arrived in pretty good condition, decently sealed and sized.

Despite the one minor issue that I had with the guitar, Mike was there every step of the way to make sure that I was satisfied with the instrument. And yes, I am satisfied with it.



Now let's take a look at the guitar case and the instrument itself. The H77 is a real beauty. The rectangle block fret markers were the first thing that caught my attention, the beautiful pickups second. The tone and volume knobs are a great accent against the black finish on the top of the guitar, as well as the pickguard, which matches the dark tortoiseshell headstock,



Finally, my opinion on the H77.

It's an overall great instrument for the price I paid. I never thought I'd get a guitar as nice looking and playable as this one. I give the Airline H77 a 10/10. I highly recommend this guitar for anyone who is on a budget, but wants a quality instrument.



I also want to thank Mike again for the quick replies via email. This shows that the owner of a company who is willing to talk to their customers, cares about making sure the customers are satisfied.

I've had my white MAP DLX for almost a year now - and it's a good time to review. I've put it through its paces, played big gigs and little gigs, recorded a bit, rattled some windows - this thing can easily handle most anything you could throw at it. Smooth as butter on a hot biscuit. Holds tune really nicely, even with the Bigsby. Only issue I've had is a little loose input jack, but that's an easy adjustment.



I bought it B-stock, from the web, sight unseen, and honestly can't tell where the heck this thing had a flaw. Set up was really good right out of the box (although, always a good idea to get any guitar set up to your own playing preference/style). Super impressed with Eastwood's overall service.



After playing it for close to a year, I still feel as good about this guitar as I did when I first got it.

I fell in love with the looks of this guitar when I first saw it advertised on the Internet. I checked it out and found out it was the reissue of an old instrument. I thought, "Naaa, it must be one of those cheap, Asian guitars that won't ever stay in tune and that will lose all its appeal after the first few days". But I had some extra bucks to spend and I tried my luck. Because, yes, it is a rather cheap instrument, but don't get me wrong: the Airline H44 DLX sounds as gorgeous as it looks. Not only does it feature marvellous copper finish and shiny hardware, but it also is a very efficient instrument that comes with a perfect setting. You won't need to spend extra money and time to bring it to your luthier. You can take it with you to your first gig, plug it in and play it. Its two mini-humbuckers are soulful but can growl too. Its pretty big neck (with great rosewood) is suited for strumming chords (as I tend to do) as well as for master's hands. And the looks are totally awesome. This guitar will make you look super-cool. Before I bought it, I read some of the specifics on the Eastwood's webpage and I was told that the Airline series presents some old models with important improvements. Right on! This guitar smells old but plays as a modern guitar should: efficiency guaranteed. A beauty that kills! Sorry... that rocks!

So I ordered my Airline Lap Steel on Monday; Tuesday it was clearing customs in Kentucky, Wednesday afternoon I received it in the desert in Nevada. ~Amazing~ for an 'International Order', and a very modest shipping charge. My lap steel arrived almost in tune (halfway between open D and E). They included a string-crank, 90degree 'courtesy' 1/4" cord, 2 Allen wrenches (one for the bridge saddles, and a bigger one that would turn a truss-rod if this instrument had one), and a generous garnish of various thicknesses and colors of flatpicks. The strings are a little mushy and slack in open D tuning, OK for open E....but there was no indication in the packaging of the strings' gauges. I'm going to order a GHS Open G set (They make them, but nobody seems to carry them), tune it to D, and have a good tension on this neck. The set-up intonation is pretty good; it's in the range where I can fix a semi-tone flat by just bearing down with the bar a little. The pickup's pretty chimey for a HB, and there's more range on the tone pot than I expected. I keep the volume dimed, and use a volume pedal (my steel A/Bs with my guitar into a pedalboard). It sounds fine with OD or distorto. I wish they'd have mentioned the string set these ship with, but I imagine most of us are going to put on strings for the tuning we have in mind anyway. This is a fine lap steel, for the price ~especially~, and all you may need is a slide-bar, strings appropriate to your tuning, and maybe fingerpicks. I can't believe how fast my order was processed and shipped, either.

Es una guitarra muy amplia en cuanto a tonos. Se pueden conseguir muchos colores distintos de sonido mezclando los micr�_fonos ya que la misma tiene control de volumen y tono para cada uno de ellos y los del punte y m��stil son single coil y el del medio humbucker. Solo ten�_a miedo que le falte presencia por ser su caja de pl��stico, pero evidentemente con el m��stil de madera alcanza para obtener un sonido magistral. El Bigby completa el combo para la magia.

De imagen, creo que no hace falta que diga nada. Es hermosa. Y SIEMPRE me preguntan por ella cuando la llevo a un concierto.

El precio es m��s que razonable y el estuche es muy lindo tambi��n.



La recomiendo en un 100%.

I recently purchased the Airline Tuxedo even though I wasn't really in the market for a new guitar. A chain of events started with a You Tube interview I watched with Mark Farner talking about his old Messenger guitar and how much he dug it. That intrigued me so in my search I come across a video demo with Wendell Ferguson playing it. My jaw dropped and I went to the Eastwood site. I started doing some searches and happened on Wendell's demo of the Tuxedo. That guitar seemed like it had all the tonal and styling properties I was looking for. Then I watched subsequent demos with RJ Ronquillo and David Henman, etc. That cinched it for me! A top quality guitar and case for under $1000.00....such a deal!!! Superior workmanship and a nice balance of retro design and modern technology. You guys hit one out of the park with the Tuxedo!

Love the vintage sound very well made great finish .

Best sound and sustain of any guitar in my price range meaning up to $1500 . I will be ordering a Delta6 soon.

Hope to enjoy my new baby for years to come

OK, tried em out last night. The pickups are not especially "hot", but they sound great. Different somehow too. Lots of tonal possibilities with this guitar. I especially like the middle position with neck PU set dark and bridge PU bright. This guitar can sound woody and jazzy, bright and twangy, or really gritty and grindy. I am really happy Mike, thanks again.

This guitar arrived today, that was incredibly fast! Thank you!



The level of quality is very very nice, with a good neck and fingerboard, nice fret job, fret ends all well finished, binding looks great, nice glossy topcoat.



I have not given it a proper tryout plugged-in yet. I'll have to see if I can bond with those funky pickups... but I figured that going in...



Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for such unbelievably fast shipping, and wanted to emphasize, this guitar is gorgeous!

Peter at Eastwood set me up with a sweet Bighorn package. How can someone not love the look of this guitar? Tomato soup red, cream pickguard... you could have it for lunch. Took it home and played it for 7 hours - love the tonality of the Argyle pick ups - great dynamic range, the action and neck offers extreme playability - inevitable comparison to Tele Deluxe for 1/3 the price.

A few problems, the Kluson style plate tuners are lifting off the headstock (maybe a 32 of an inch) resulting in a "wild G" tuning - will need to upgrade them sooner or later (which I would have done anyway). Have to agree with GP mag that should be played wearing the headgear of the Water Buffalo lodge. If not for the tuners would be 10 out of 10.

This guitar is a purchase I actually did not regret.

I love it and I'm happy to play it. It's got beautiful sound and a great fret board, every fret is great to play. If you're looking to buy this guitar? Do it!!!!!

This guitar is super fun to play. When I'm really rocking out though, it seems I do hit the pickup volume/tone knobs at the top quite a bit. I'm still trying figure out how to play it without doing that. But other than that I love it. I know it's not very in-depth, but just my 2��. I love my Eastwoods!

Being a lefty I have always found it difficult to find guitars to add to my growing collection. Having spotted the green Airline Map online one day, I new that I needed this guitar to add to my collection. The retro-surf- look to it alone screams this is a cool guitar. I went on to the co. website and ordered the guitar and cool harshell case and received it within a week. Well I am pleased to say the guitar plays as well as it looks. My band plays punk, country, hard rock, rockabilliy and this thing handles them all with ease. My band mates always mention the versatility of the sounds and even though I bring gretsches and les pauls to the gigs as well its the Airline that people always want to talk about. The neck is fast and comfortable and the Bigsby is an added bonus. Its a lot fo guitar for $950

This baritone looks great, sounds great and stays in tune. I'm a "made in USA" snob and it's difficult for me to purchase an import. But I gotta say that I love this guitar so far. It inspires me to play songs differently. Not only in a lower key but tempo and dynamics as well. This is the most stable guitar that I've owned with a Bigsby on it also. I'm sure that's because of the added string tension. Do not be afraid of the Bigsby model. You'll need to roll the bass and mids off when using most amps to not fart out the speakers. Not a problem. I would recommend you buy this guitar.