BREADWINNER demo from EASTWOOD Guitars

[diddlytube]

I've owned 2 Eastwoods. There are a few reasons they always sound out-of-tune. Assuming that the open strings are tuned to pitch in the first place, I've found the folowing: 1) Nut slots not cut deep enough, so strings are pulled out of tune on 1st-position chords. 2) Frets leveled but not crowned, so strings don't seat at center of frets. 3) My Rocket 6 bridge showed no evidence that anybody even tried to adjust at factory. All fixable, but add $40-$100 to price in your head if you buy one.

[Ningirsutyr]

With the active switch engaged, the tone is fuller and sounds more like a humbucker. People often complain about this guitar sounding too bright in passive mode but I thought that this is a regular tonal quality with mini humbuckers :S By the way, is the circuitry active in the way we understand it today? As in it's battery-operated? Also, can the mini humbuckers still be swapped with an aftermarket pickup?

[MrSteviesavage]

I own an original Deacon, which is basically a luxury Breadwinner. And I think Eastwood have fucked up here. The one thing collectors agree on with the originals is that the active circuitry is crap and kills the tone from the pickups, so what does Eastwood do? Recreate the active circuitry. Almost every single original has this removed and often upgraded pickups as well. So please Eastwood, can we have a version with no active electronics and some decent humbuckers?

[fx1r]

Why are Eastwoods perpetually out of tune..?

[colosalblack]

Thatsa BRIGHT sounding guitar!

[dirtypaper]

Which one whas first, because i've seen this shape before but it was a rare Ovation electric.

[ImUnd3cid3d]

@dirtypaper This is just a copy the ovation was made first. I believe it was their first ever solid body electric.

[borderking59]

I love these guitars period. but either i am hearing something wrong or it is badly out of tune. I still want one though.

[Talonz59]

I bought an original black Ovation Breadwinner in 75 and paid $325 Canadian from Long and McQuades in Toronto. Since selling it in the mid 80's due to hard times, I've often thought about getting another but after seeing what they were going for on eBay held back. I've now purchased an Eastwood Breadwinner thanks to this video from a local store in Edmonton and couldn't be happier. The quality and sound is much improved over the original and has TREMOLO! Thank you ;)

[abhijitgupta]

too bright

[wisesatyr72]

robert smith should play this guitar

[FastBebop]

he did lool

[Landesko]

So is the eastwood breadwinner really worth it? Im looking into either buying a eastwood breadwinner, or go for broke, save a couple more hundred and buy the real thing. Dont want somethin thats gonna end up showing like a cheap squier.

[TheCreativeCreators]

Not impressed, I got a cheap squire which makes almost the same sound.

[Dogdashdash]

It looks like an axe, and I don't say 'axe' for another name for a guitar, I mean literally it looks like an axe.

[abhijitgupta]

lol

[intrepgun]

heh, that E @1:22 is in 'mutilated lips' by ween.

[kirsh]

oh my god! it is! good song.

[wildbilltexas]

Lets hear that guitar cranked through a Marshall.

[legimenes]

you should make an eastwood hummingbird demo (with some fuzz if possible : D)

your Messenger demo is almost perfect!

[guitardbucket]

My old guitar instructor has one of the original Ovation Breadwinners, given to him by Ovation with a little plaque with his name on it.

[MisterRaintown]

Damn, tune that thing before you do a video!

[MalchikBlue]

It's in perfect pitch, you chuckle fuck.

[MisterRaintown]

Haaaaaaaah!!!! Play soccer with those ears...

[FastBebop]

No it's not lol but quite bearable

[raizumichin]

Very intersting sound, kinda rickenbacker-ish.

[Plancton2006]

far out! I love the breadwinner even thow it's really an ugly sickle ;-) but it looked way cool on Robert Smith in the Banshees.