The fingerboard sports a вЂњzero fret,вЂќ relegating the function of the nut to that of string guide. The clear-coated paint is smoothly applied to a smoothly prepared surface. There is a white clear plastic pickguard with the rear surface painted white and containing an вЂњArt DecoвЂќ fine line design. The guitar top is вЂњraisedвЂќ by a cove rout around its entire perimeter. The tone-chambered Mahogany body and Maple neck are bound in white plastic and the headstock in black plastic. The headstock is painted white with a raised painted metal вЂњAirlineвЂќ logo set at a jaunty angle. The specimen weighs in at 8.2 pounds and has a sea foam green body and bolt-on neck.

Anatomy Like the look but play bass? Check out our Eastwood Airline Map bass review here. The guitar is now labeled under the Airline brand as the 'MapвЂќ guitar, possibly a mind-altered view of the United States outline. I have been playing and dissecting guitars for over 50 years,so IвЂ™ve had the chance to see it all unfold and in fact still own a вЂ™64 Airline Red Jet thin hollow body and also held and played many other originals, including the review guitar which started its evolutionary path as a вЂњNationalвЂќ branded вЂњNewport.вЂќ One of my good friends in high school owned it, and I played it many times. It is intended for those still in awe of the sudden explosion of retro cool designs on the market. He did all this while maintaining the vintage vibe of the original designs going so far as to use the original brand name of guitars sold by the now defunct Montgomery Ward and Co - 'Airline.' There are also several model names under the вЂњEastwoodвЂќ brand. Mike picked the best of those left behind, fixed past issues with playability and reliability and brought them to the now adoring throngs at prices far below the soaring cost of the highly sought originals. This trend did not go unnoticed by some individuals with an eye to the future one of those being Mike Robinson, president of Eastwood Guitars. Want web exclusives like this delivered to your inbox weekly? Sign up for our weekly insider updates. Meanwhile, some disenchantment with the вЂњsame oldвЂќ standard designs began to spread within mainstream guitardom, and it wasnвЂ™t long before these вЂњpawnshop dinosaursвЂќ breathed new life in the hands of dedicated players. Soon, the old вЂњmail order specialsвЂќ found themselves mired in the вЂњtarpitsвЂќ of pawn shop windows, to be dissected and collected by a mere handful of guitar aficionados. Lo, and whereupon were born the вЂњEpiphoneвЂќ line of Gibson, the вЂњSquierвЂќ line of Fender along with many new lines of copies, both domestic and Asian. It didnвЂ™t take long for the established, known-name manufacturers to hone in on the entry level thing. Some were good and launched many a guitar career, some were just plain bad and discouraged many a would-be player, and some were just too grotesque to be taken seriously by the guitar public. Others - neophytes, and the less heeled - perused mail-order catalogs, or haunted the music stores or department stores of their hometowns, scooping up cool bargain guitars by such names as Kay, Harmony, Teisco, Eko, Guyatone, National, Supro, Airline, Silvertone, Danelectro and many others from here and abroad. Those who could afford the freight played the guitars of their heroes: Fender, Gibson, Guild, or Gretsch. Thus were born into the world many new species some very distinct from those of the past. The double big bang of the advent of the solid body guitar and the tumultuous storm of rock nвЂ™ rollвЂ™s arrival in the world of young humans kicked the demand for, and the production of, this new genus of guitar into hyperdrive. Many years passed before the winds of change began to blow. In the Beginning Homo Sapiens created the electric guitar by placing a coil-wound electromagnet in proximity to the strings of an acoustic guitar and running the signal to an amplifying device.

Attention class, the subject of todayвЂ™s lecture is the вЂњMapвЂќ guitar manufactured by Eastwood Guitars.

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