Guitars With Jon Way Episode 18 Eastwood Breadwinner
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2010
- Jon gives a review on Eastwood Guitars' Breadwinner, an excellent reissue of Ovation's 1970's Breadwinner guitar. Stay tuned and check out this beauty shot in white, and the hear the sound in both clean and distortion.
That was great thanks.
I have an original black Breadwinner, and used to have a white one too. I also had a Deacon 12 string. The bridge and electronics suck. I wedged a chunk of maple under the floating bridge (on a solid mahogany body???? geez! why'd they even bother) and cranked that sucker down hard. Now it's got some sustain. I ditched the crap pickups and active gunk. Stuck in a couple of Firebird mini humbuckers. Good sounds at last. Wish I'd kept and modded the Deacon 12 thusly.
I see you have an original breadwinner in the back. How do they compare? How close is the Eastwood? I who have a O-breadwinner, few Preachers (Viper deluxe too by the way ;) think it sounds very close to my original in the video. Whats your opinion?
@brianway1 I'll generally agree on the active switch applying a boost but an interesting thing is that it sounds also such like it makes the bridge pickup sound less bright when activated. Would you agree having played it in person? By the way, I'm considering buying a Breadwinner and I must say that your video enticed me a lot to buy it, more than the original Eastwood demo to be precise ;)
Cool guitar, i tend to worry about pickguard mounted jacks though
Already have. :)
How did you get a lefty version?
So passive pickups with an active boost?
or is a perhaps a deacon??? in the back?
OK, I have an original Deacon, which is a luxury version of the Breadwinner. I had been looking forward to playing an Eastwood copy for some time, but was bitterly disappointed when I did.
The build quality was awful on the Eastwood; neck out of alignment, low grade wood, thin, weedy sound, fret markers badly set and misaligned, cheap hardware, strings not correctly aligned with p/u's due to neck misalignment,
Compare this with the original; stunning to play, great wood altho still poor sound.