GGJaguar
Reverential Member
On the playlist for this weekend is my 2011 E20P. I love this guitar, but haven't played it in a long time because it desperately needed new strings and I'm getting cranky about slot-head string changes. But it's got a fresh set of JP PBs and it was well worth a couple of "string stings". The E20P is called a parlor guitar by Eastman, but it's about the same size as a Martin 0 guitar. It definitely punches above its weight and sounds huge - more like a 12-fret 000 than an 0-size. In fact, I've played a few of these in shops and twice someone came up to me and said they thought I was playing a much larger guitar. It's that loud, really! The only production guitar that comes close to sounding as good as the E20P is the Recording King RP1-327 and one that sounds better is the Martin 0-28VS (at 3 times the cost).
I got this guitar in early 2012 from Mandolin Brothers (RIP Stan). After I received it, I found that Stan had made a video of LTG member, Howard Emerson @hmemerson giving it a quick play. When I got the guitar, it looked just as it did in the video. You can see how the top has darkened and you can see there is runout which wasn't noticeable before. No matter really, as the guitar has broken in nicely and sounds much better now than it did in the video.
I got this guitar in early 2012 from Mandolin Brothers (RIP Stan). After I received it, I found that Stan had made a video of LTG member, Howard Emerson @hmemerson giving it a quick play. When I got the guitar, it looked just as it did in the video. You can see how the top has darkened and you can see there is runout which wasn't noticeable before. No matter really, as the guitar has broken in nicely and sounds much better now than it did in the video.