Do Eastman guitars and mandolins follow standard dimensions and designs?
Eastman hand carved instruments were developed from patterns, plans, drawings, and physical examples of the fine arched top and back mandolins developed in the 1920s. Unlike many modern replicas, Eastman products use hand cut dovetail neck mounting, traditional flat fingerboards, and precisely set narrow frets. A few innovations help today’s players. Each mandolin contains an adjustable truss rod, uses an adjustable ebony bridge, relies on a cast polished tailpiece rather than a stamped metal shell, and may have the extra frets on the fingerboard extension removed and the extension relieved, or may use a modern terminated fretboard. Fingerboards are usually slightly radiused. Basic construction features are as they always have been. Eastman doesn’t bolt on the necks or use non-traditional dimensions.
