I work at a local guitar store two afternoons a week, and Eastman flattops are a fairly good seller for us, I got to play more than a few of them. We also have some archtops.
The Eastman flattops are great value for money, pretty great sounding guitars, escpecially the all solid ones, some of those sound glorious.
I've seen plenty of sloppy finishing and cosmetic defects, from sloppy buffing jobs to sawdust or even a wood splinter under the finish, but I guess that's to be expected - they have to cut corners somewhere if you're turning out solid wood guitars for those prices.
The main area where they could really improve things a little are the frets IMO - the fret jobs are just a little too rough, and almost without exception could use some extra detaling.
Frets on the Guild GAD's and Blueridge guitars are much better, and I haven't seen any of those finish defects I see on the Eastmans. But the all solid Eastman dreads do tend to kick the GAD and Blueridge ones' asses soundwise.
I've seen the same sloppy finishes, and downright bad fretwork on Recording King (also MIC) guitars btw - which is a shame, because some of them sound really great.