Eastwood Guitars Monolith

Eastwood Monolith guitar. Made in China 2009. Tele-style body with a maple fingerboard. 22 frets. 1 tone, 1 volume, 3-way selector. The bridge is wrap-around. 1 pickup made by rebelSonic has 3 sounds in one. Hard case.

This guitar sounds great. The pickup has 3 different sounds. In the bridge position, you get a P-90. Very clear and also gets that 'twangy' thing happening especially in the lower and open playing positions. The neck selection gives you a humbucker. Lots of power and growl. Loud. The middle pickup gives you an out-of-phase muddy tone. I haven't found a use for this yet. My regular guitar is a Gibson Les Paul but I've been meaning to get a Tele. This bridges the gap as I can switch between those two sounds now without changing guitars. I'm playing the Monolith through an Ampeg J-12 T and the pickup has plenty of power so even at a low volume, this cuts.

Set up was fine. Low but not too low action. The set neck is fast and comfortable. Not a big radius on the fretboard like a Fender-good thing. This guit was ready to go out of the box.
The only concern I have is the wrap-around bridge. It has saddles molded into it but they are not slotted. After a couple of string changes, the strings are finding their own places on the saddles and digging their own slots into the plating.

I have given this guitar a workout at a couple of gigs and it stands up well. The sounds cut through the club, it stays in tune and it looks nice. Strap buttons are solid. Hangs well/good balance.

No info on this yet.

I'm a working musician. I've been playing out and recording about 25 years. I've had this guitar for about a month and already used it live and in the studio. I'm a Gibson guy, but this guitar adds a whole different range of sounds that I can use now. It will go with me when I hit the road. Great sounding and playing guitar in an affordable price range.

This is a new model from Eastwood that touts itself as having the biggest pickup on the planet. The guitar has one pickup with 3 different sounds available so with the selelctor switch rather than chose a pickup position you choose a sound.

The sounds available are a p-90 sound, a muted single-coil sound, and a humbucker sound. The p-90 and humbucker are nice but this guitar laid no new ground. If you have a guitar w/ P-90's and another with Humbuckers you don't need this guitar. The single-coil sound is comepletely worthless. It is muted and very inarticulate. The equivilent would be to to turn your tone control all the way down and then lay your amp so the speaker faces the floor then you have this sound.down

This guitar is made in China. For those of you smarter than me that's all you need to know. The guitar arrived with the pickguard not cut properly to fit the neck and more importantly the high E string fretted out below the 8th fret. Mind you, this was one of the 50 guitars Eastwood made to take to NAMM to show off its new product. If this is the quality of their show guitars I'd hate to see the quality control on their production models.

I hate to think about it give the quality control mentioned above.

I bought this guitar from a musician who got it at NAMM. When I discovered the fret problem I called Eastwood and to my surprize Mike the owner answered the phone. I had heard the Eastwood and Mike gave good customer service so thats why I called eventhough I wasn't the buyer. I explained the problem to Mike. I thought he think, "oh my god, one of my new babies is out there and its defective". His only concern was that I wasn't the original owner and how the warranty didn't apply to me. Whan I asked about the warranty he directed me to the website and hung up. Mind you this guitar it less than a month old. I will never buy an Eastwood product again.

Eastwood-forget about it!

Year: 2009, made in China. 22 Fret, Solid Top, One Volume, One Tone, 3 way selector.

ONE Monolith pickup in the bridge. 3 way switch changes pickup configuration.

Maple set neck. Body feels like mahogany, but might be something else.

Finish is high gloss red with a thick clearcoat.

Tele style body

Single piece wrap around gotoh bridge, non-locking gotoh tuners, 25 1/2 scale neck, fairly fat neck, with a somewhat flat radius on the fret board. Maple. Came with a instrument cord, and allen wrenches.

The sound is fantastic. Lots of manufactures claim they've nailed the "p90" sound, and fail. This pickup's p90 setting actually sounds practically identical to the lindy fralin in the bride of my custom tele, if a slight bit hotter. How did they achieve this? Easy. It's not humbucking at all on this setting. You get all the p90 noise on the p90 setting.

They've actually balanced the output for the humbucker setting on the pickup with the other two places so you don't have this huge output jump switching between them. The "middle" position isn't very useful to me, but I could see myself using it at some point. I used this with an original ac15 (not tb), an ac30tb, and a jcm800. The combination of wood and pickup makes for a great sounding guitar. I really really really like this pickup. If it was only two settings, p90 and humbucker, it would be worth it. You can go from punk to metal with a flip of the blade switch. I don't know how they did what they did, but the pickup is the real star of this guitar.

The setup out of the box was nothing short of a miracle. This thing shipped from canada, yet it was HARMONICALLY in tune out of the box. I could tell someone did the setup, set E, then tuned it harmonically because that's how I tune and it was almost absolutely dead on (3rd was off a little, huge surprise). The action was very low with no buzz. The intonation was dead on. Pickup height was perfect so the first string was balanced with the 6th in output. Whoever did the setup did a fantastic job. Even the fretboard is finished nice. However....

There's red paint on the maple fretboard at the bottom. You can tell whoever made it did not care enough to stop to wipe it off while they were hurrily building it. And of course, it's covered by a thick layer of clearcoat.

The pick guard looks like it was cut by an epileptic 4 year old with a hacksaw. There's a dent on the back that obviously happened before shipping because the box I received was pristine. There are SCRATCHES on the chrome control plate. There are scratches on the back. The screws holding the poorly cut pickguard are crooked.

I decided to take the pick guard off because it was so ugly and found TWO SETS OF SCREW HOLES UNDER IT, and they were all stuffed with broken toothpicks to hold the screws in.

It's not cutting edge technology to manufacture a flat guitar surface, but this one is not. You can see the irregularities on the front of the guitar in light on any of the large flat areas. It's not flat. No idea how you mess this up unless you made the guitar with hand tools and no level. One of the strap buttons has a felt washer. One does not *smacks forehead*.

I'd gig with this. I just wouldn't get within ten feet of anyone. The gotoh hardware is fantastic, and the tuning stability is surprisingly good. It's definitely a player. It feels very sturdy.

No clue yet. I'm not even sure if I'm going to pursue this. They are in canada, and I'm sure they'll claim everything happened in shipping. The fact that they had the balls to charge 500 dollars for this guitar, and to even ship something so poorly made speaks volumes.

I may just cut my losses and keep my ugly guitar. It plays fantastic, it sounds fantastic, but this is NOT a 500 dollar guitar. This is a used 300 dollar guitar at best. Heck, the ACT ONE guitar I bought at wal-mart for my nephew for a hundred bucks was better finished. There are a lot of great guitars coming out of china today. This is not one of them. Thanks to whoever did the setup, but I could have bought a squire for 150 bucks and paid a tech 50 bucks to set it up, saved 300 dollars, and had a much better guitar. This is the first and last guitar I will ever buy from Eastwood. Wish I had better things to say. Your quality control sucks. Fix it or you will lose customers.

Telecaster style body, made of alder, maple neck and fretboard with med. jumbo frets. Red with matching headstock and a chrome pickgaurd..it's sharp. The best feature is the Monolith pickup that's 3 pickups in one unit and I have use for all 3 sounds.

The Monolith pickup is awesome. I like using the Ice Pick setting mostly. The Jack hammer is also great for loud playing and the Cement mixer is really bassy but through a distortion pedal sounds thick and heavy. This is really the reason why I bought this unit

Almost perfect out of the box.

Too new!

Really great. The crew was all at Namm when I ordered it, so I called the Warehouse and told them I would like to have a chrome pickguard on the guitar. It was on a Wed. and It was at my house on Friday.

For the price you can't beat it.