I always like the production of that guys videos -nice guitar -but here are a couple of thoughts.
One -He's got great "tone" fingers, and 8,000 dollars worth of processing between his JHS neve pre pedal, his Mesa Amp, his recording mic, and his Focusrite Pre (if I remember correctly), and Protools plugs -so if you love this guitar, which to me -it's a great sounding LP -beware that 90% of the sound you like is those fingers/ear, Lawler pickups and his great downstream chain -not the guitar's detail and accoutrements -so don't lose your mind on the guitar construction delivering that sound.
Two- My experience with Eastman (like most importers and Gibson lol) can be hit or miss -looks like he got a good one -I've seen the opposite of the this as several times -that said, most of the rough Eastmans can be improved if it's not a dimensional sizing/fitting issue.
Three- He never mentions the mismatched book match tiger maple top (see comment above) . -many buyers spending $1,500.00 would want at least a slightly better match -he's had it a month and doesn't notice it? Nah, more likely, he's doing a solid for the free Eastman guitar -plus book matching is purely aesthetic so maybe he doesn't care? considering he only holds the guitar in a position where you can see it a few times and for very short durations, I'd say he's trying to keep that out of the main narrative but also inform the detailed viewer for some disclosure.
Four, -minor but before the video got past 20 seconds, I already knew it was handmade from all the imperfections in the contours of the tiger maple top (look at :07 to :22) -not a big deal and a lot of it may be the thin antique style finish making it more noticeable , but there sure are a lot of them compared to regular handmade Luthiers LP where there are enough to know it's handmade, but not as many non intended waves like this guitar, but hey it's handmade and Chinese and a good deal -and this would not affect my purchase decision.
Overall, a very rad guitar, I just thought the review didn't mention the very few negatives or purchase details that a detailed buying might need to consider.
I checked, and these guitars can be had for 1200.00 to 1600.00 -so that's pretty awesome -and the sweet spot for a professional player to use at gigs.
It's one of my favorites ever cause it's purple, got a trem, nice top, dual humbuckers and sounds INSANE. The pups are an SH12/SH6N Hybrid Alnico 8 in bridge and a Seth lover/Jazz hybrid Alnico IV. it has one coil tap under a push pull pot (but I'm thinking of giving this a 6 way switch so I can get all the tones I want out of this cause all the split tones are beautiful). It does everything amazing. Only thing I don't like? Zebrano. Zebrano is.... ieuw. Never again.
