Eastwood SATURN 63 Guitar - David Love

[EbenezarGold]

It's like my Tele's and Teisco's sounds all rolled into one crazy body. very cool.

[TheShowman696969]

Great review my friend. One day it will be mine...oh yes, it will be mine.

[joeyrox]

this guy loves the Beatles! Can't say I blame him.

[pacvsantos]

I have one and I love the sound! you can hear it in my videos. I bought it based only on the videos and sound samples.

The only thing I dislike is the access to the upper notes. the Cutway is not very effective. All in all that's a great guitar with great identity!

[einaroneeye]

Nice sounds, got a smooth woody tone to it particularly on the middle and neck pups. Cool, retro look too, very nice.

[okearthling]

That almost sounds like a Gretch. Very nice.

[cheeseppuff]

i have an origional from '63, its worth about $1,500, i lvoe playing it, many different ways to change the sound on this guitar

[Avalon365]

I want that guitar

[jks2]

it's about 600 bucks.

[318825768]

Its 2450 € worth !

[BucksStudent]

No. Not at all. Maybe the original Saturns, but these are Korean made. I don't know of many Korean guitars that are worth that much.

[intrepgun]

heh, give fender another few years and they'll try to tell you otherwise ;P

[garyptaszek]

haha +1

[jks2]

this copy is about 600 bucks and i think the pickups, trem bar and neck ajustment are better on this one instead of the original

[BucksStudent]

Then the original must be total trash, because this isn't top quality.

[aaronarmo]

600 US dollars?

[TheGzeus]

Honey, Don't.

[BucksStudent]

I'm selling mine tomorrow.

[BucksStudent]

Gone now. I still have the demos up.

My problem with the guitar was the low output. I was going to replace the pickups with Ric single coils, but it wasn't worth the effort. I also had trouble with the chrome binding, as it was really plastic and buzzed when I played it. When I returned it to my local shop, after almost three years of owning it, my buddy said, "We had that thing forever. There is only one guy in town that wanted it, and now he wants to get rid of it."

[BucksStudent]

Don't you love how I'm the only one besides David who plays a Saturn 63 on Youtube?

[pacvsantos]

I also play one!!! check the videos.

[EmpathicResonator]

Anyone know what the port is just below the tone and pickup selector?

[myrareguitars]

it is an XLR output. Not much use, more for cosmetics because the original had a connector on it like that. It works, but you don't need it. the 1/4" output jack is on the bottom.

[pacvsantos]

Much use if you want to go through different systems e.g. differents amplifiers.

[BucksStudent]

I have a new video of me playing the Saturn '63. :)

[TheBlackCrayon77]

I had the pleasure of playing one of these at Truetone In Santa Monica, very cool sounding guitar. Those cats down there really dig your stuff, I was talking 12 strings with them and the first thing they mentioned was your Classic and Nashville 12. I told them I was way ahead of them. hahaha

[ephramtherabbit]

oh they ahve one there??? dude im rly close

[purenectar]

i don't think this guitar is for you, if you want to play it thru a mesa-boogie rectifier. THAT'S ABUSE!

[VegetarianBarbarian]

yeah pure nectar is right BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR ALL YOU FELLOWS I GOT ME A 1969 MINT CONDITION SUNN SCEPTRE HALF STACK sunn to this day was the best amp company and i dont know why fender discontinued them

[Underjoggle]

I wish these guys would play something other than country and blues.

I want to know how it sounds with a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier, or a similar metal amp, not just that podunk Fender down there.

[exampletownoutlaws]

It would probably sound exactly like the way every other guitar sounds through a Triple Rec or a "similar metal amp."

[raizumichin]

Exactly, most of the 'metal amps' like Bogner, Mesa and ENGL have so much of their own distintinctive character that most guitars sounds kinda the same through them.

[pinholedstars]

actually...Mesa based many of their circuits on a Fender Deluxe. Which is a 12-watt "po-dunk" country amp, if you didn't know.

Your amp is just its retarded roid-rage cousin.

[purenectar]

i knew. i pigeon holed you. i'm sorry.

[purenectar]

aren't the pickups supposed to be weak? thats how you get that 60s clean twang sound...am i wrong?

[myrareguitars]

exactly right! That's why it sounds so cool, and so 60's.

[purenectar]

i'm having a hard time finding an affordable semi-acoustic with single coils. i have an eastwood classic six and a nashville 12. the classic 6 is nice cos the p'ups are low output yet gutsy but i wish vox would re-issue those old cheetahs and ultrasonics. i like that gretsch electromatic with the de'armonds but its a bit too big. something with a centreblock. any thoughts??

[yellowvespa04]

@myrareguitars

..."weak?" 

[BucksStudent]

I have one... The pickups are always bugging me, but if you want 60's tones, get a Tele.

[purenectar]

i hav a fender tele thinline with single coils which is good but not as cool to look at as a vox ultrasonic. i'm putting tv jones single coils on my eastwood classic 6

[jonnda]

I want one.

[BucksStudent]

I have this guitar. It has a good sound; not really unique though. I feel that it sounds really good through a Vox or a Fender, but the pickups are weak so you have to turn up really loud to get the good tone to come out. It looks great, as you can tell, but the metal lining, which is plastic, buzzes when you play. It doesn't sound like a Ric or a Grestch, and you can't tell it's a hollowbody from the noise except that you can hear it when you're playing electricly. Overall, I like it though.

[GregMcG1983]

Do you think this would sound good with humbuckers?

Also, did you find any way to stop the buzzing that you mentioned?

[BucksStudent]

Maybe. I think it would sound more warm and less twangy. I prefer humbuckers...

The buzzing can be stopped by hot gluing the metal binding to the body. You will have to unscrew it (it doesn't come off completely) and do it that way. I have yet to do it, but I plan on doing it VERY soon.

[GregMcG1983]

Thanks for the info.

Is the 'Bucks' in question Bucks County, PA?

[BucksStudent]

No, Peter Buck of REM is my hero.

Funny, I often wonder if I can get a Ric sound with this guitar. So far, I don't sound like Buck.

[GregMcG1983]

Oh, cool! I'm also a Buck student, heheh. I saw his buddy Robyn Hitchcock at a club with an audience of ~60 a few weeks ago... AWESOME!

[BucksStudent]

Hitchcock is cool. He has been recently using an Eastwood model...

[ANuclearEra]

amazing! i really want one, i have the airline have pickups in two of my guitars and ever since i have wanted the real thing and this is one of my most loved models. can you get a good amount of "twang" from this guitar? i dont want a fender, but if you have any other models like that, hook me up.

[zx7gp]

Honey Don't!!!! hah! love the carl perkins!

[beachhutblues]

This guitar more or less a copy of a German Hopf guitar from the 60's.

Very nice.

[braindamage53]

I am concidering purchasing the Rocket Six, I was currious if you guys were going to do an in depth demo of it, such as this. I've seen footage of it before on youtube, but it's not really a review, it's more of footage of jamming. Have a nice day.

[myrareguitars]

Sorry no, we will be discontinuing the ROCKET 6.

[coneyislandrocket]

oh no! when?! I'm going to have to order one immediately then!