Eastman T184/185/MX

[DustinG]

Have any of you had the chance to compare the Eastman T184mx and T185mx? Curious which body size you prefer of those two.

[DustinG]

Hi to the interested parties.

I received my T185 MX yesterday.

It is quite stunning and the solid wood and finishing oozes quality. It is a real guitar, if that makes any sense. I am only 5'6" and the 15" body fits me perfectly. I will have to decide on some strings and give it a setup before adding a sound clip. I think I will start out with some DR Pure Blues 10-46. I'm really thinking TI Swing Flat 11's but I will have to order them in and they cost a fortune. I want to get up and running so I'll try the DR's first.

As you can see it is a Goldburst and was built in late December of 2022 and has the new headstock. It weighs in at 5.6 lbs. on my digital bathroom scale.

The main reason for this post is that there seemed to be concern about neck dive on this model so I thought I'd demonstrate how the guitar balances with a short video and you can judge for yourself.

A couple years later, are you still happy with the T185mx?

[alpop]

A couple years later, are you still happy with the T185mx?

I just recently traded it in on a Yamaha FG9 M. I still was happy with the guitar, but I play a lot of acoustic music and the Yamaha knocked my socks off so unfortunately something had to go. Not the fault of the guitar though. I enjoyed playing it while I had it, and had zero complaints about the quality, sound or playability or appearance.
The FG9 M was over $4,000 Canadian so I had to trade something of value to mitigate the cost.

The store was happy to take the guitar in trade and it sold very quickly.

[DustinG]

Here's a short sound sample.

Neck pickup, volume on 9, tone on 7.

Plugged straight into the interface and recorded in Reaper DAW and iPhone at the same time. I transferred the phone video to the DAW, synched to the audio, and muted the audio from the phone recording.

I added a touch of reverb, and an amp/cab sim.

A couple years later, are you still happy with the T185mx? How do you like the neck and wider fretboard on it?