Guitar Pic of the Day - 11.9.08

[Help!I'maRock!]

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Year: 2008
ManufacturerName Eastman
ModelName T184MX-LTD
Case: Hard
Color: Classic Finish
Condition: Brand New
Price: Call for price!
Buffalo Brothers Description: NGB28947 The semi-hollow archtop has long been known and appreciated for its versatility of tone as well as its comfortable playability. Eastman brings the design to a new level with their thinline archtops. This limited edition version of the T184MX features a 14" double cutaway body made of solid maple for the top, solid mahogany back and sides, one-piece mahogany neck, ebony fingerboard with dot inlay, flame maple binding on the body and neck, chrome hardware including tune-o-matic bridge and stop tailpiece and a pair of humbucking pickups with individual volume and tone controls. Great looks, great sounds, great feel.....and great price! With hard shell case. (MSRP $2195)

[thredlok]

that's freakin hot! AOK

[Mark Wein]

Its seems like their version of the ES339

If it is close that I don't think I dig the semi hollow in that size...I guess I'm more of a "335" size kind of guy....

[Help!I'maRock!]

it does seem like their version of the 339. though supposedly it has a solid top instead of a laminate.

[Mark Wein]

I wonder if the solid top really makes it sound that much better on a semi hollow guitar or if it really matters very much...

[Help!I'maRock!]

I wonder if the solid top really makes it sound that much better on a semi hollow guitar or if it really matters very much...


honestly, i have no idea. i've heard that solid tops sound better in the short term, but the old Gibson jazz guitars that sound best 40 years later are all laminates. obviously, i can't confirm that assertion, but its an interesting one.

its interesting that you don't like it because its too small. i'm actually surprised you can play your Suhrs, as they seem really small, like my PRS. i'd think a Soloway would be more your bag.

[Mark Wein]

The Suhrs are basically Fender size....not too small. My Les Paul is on the smallish (yet heavy) side for me and my Rick is tiny. I've only gigged with a 335 once and it was cool but strange for me.

That black strat you played has the silliest giant neck but it doesn't bother me in the least....

[Help!I'maRock!]

i'm just kinda surprised you play solidbodies at all.

[Mark Wein]

why is that?

[Help!I'maRock!]

why is that?


because you're a big guy and i'd think they'd "fit" you better. but then, i'm pretty short with small hands, so i dunno how everybody else relates to guitars.

[Mark Wein]

makes sense, but its not really the sound I'm after 95% of the time....I'd love a 335 or a thinline Tele but I don't think I would play them that much on the types of gigs that I do.

[Help!I'maRock!]

if i could play everything on my Rickenbacker, i would. but TheBest is kinda high gain (and tends to play places with shitty wiring), and the new project is all about guitar switching, and the other guy likes my Tele better. so Tele it is.

[Mark Wein]

I end up always going back to me Les Paul. A couple of weeks ago I did a take for Micwalts metal BT and rediscovered how easy it was to play and how easy it is to get a good sound with it.

That guitar is like crack for me smi

I really try to practice on my Tele since it is the hardest guitar for me to play physically (the scale length and tele bridge makes thing challenging for me to alternate pick quickly) so I usually try to play that when I teach but I go through phases.

[Help!I'maRock!]

surprising that the scale length on the tele gives you difficulty. its not like its any different than a strat. i've never had problems with bridges like other guitarists do. its not that i can't tell the difference, i just seem to be able to adapt.

the hardest guitar for me to play is actually my classical. huge neck/fretboard, weird strings, no picks, and i haven't even started sitting in the standard position with it.

[Prages]

Back to the GPOTD...

I like it. The headstock being so flared out on the end is the one thing that kind of turns me off, but it's not so bad I couldn't get over it.

That said, I'm not much of a semi-hollow guy, so I probably wouldn't buy it.

[Mark Wein]

surprising that the scale length on the tele gives you difficulty. its not like its any different than a strat. i've never had problems with bridges like other guitarists do. its not that i can't tell the difference, i just seem to be able to adapt.

the hardest guitar for me to play is actually my classical. huge neck/fretboard, weird strings, no picks, and i haven't even started sitting in the standard position with it.



For most stuff its no big deal but if I'm doing the really fast alternate picking thing its funny how much easier the paul is than the tele.

[JModius1972]

That's hot. I dig it.