Eastwood Guitars Rocket 6

This is an update of the previous review. I have since sold the guitar.

I realized the pickups were not suited to me. I came to the conclusion they didn't put out enough volume. Very low output.

The guitar, in hindsight, was pretty mediocre in every way. The Chinese Eastwoods are really hit and miss, unlike the more expensive and much better Korean models Mike Robinson imports. On the Rocket, I could never get the action low enough and could not keep the neck straight for any period of time. It kept bowing out. I had it set up twice and had the neck adjusted three times. No avail. The guitar was hopeless.

See above.

Generally good.

The guitar was a real dog. I'd never buy one again. A little background info: Maybe I just got a bad one. On the plus side, I really like my Eastwood Airline Map, co that's some consolation.

Metallic red finish, rocket solidbody style with carved German top, steeple shaped headtsock. Roller bridge with Bigsby-style vibrato, Schaller type tuners, medium C shape neck, 21 frets, two volume, two tone. Two volume pots were loose when I got the guitar. Two Supro single coil pickups installed by Eastwood. Guitar usually comes with humbuckers. Passive electronics. Maple neck, basswood body, I think.

Suits me fine. I like 60's rock and have enough Les Pauls and Strats, use a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, no mods, and various stompboxes. Not noisy so far. Sounds are good and varied. Supro pickups are large single coil units tha break upo easily and sound nasty when cranked. So far so good on the sound.

Needs a setup really badly. Intonation out, neck straight, won't hold a tuning very well. Equipped with .009 strings-too light. No visible flaws. Pickups adjusted fine. As mentioned earlier, loose volume pots.

Should hold up on gigs. Jury still out on reliability of hardware and finish. Strap buttons OK. Will be dependable once it's set up right. I always take 3-4 guitars to gigs, so no, it will never be used without a backup.

Under warranty, and Eastwood has a no-hassle return policy on everything. They're good guys to deal with.

Been playing over thirty years and have 17 guitars. Would most likely buy another one. I like the looks of this guitar because it's totally different than anything else out there and will certainly be a conversation piece. Can't compare it to anything else. My only regret is that I couldn't get the guitar in powder blue, my first finish choice. Out of stock and none coming in for months at best, so I took my second choice, metallic red. Overall, the guitar is unique and a very good value for the money.

Easwood made in china 2005, 2 humbucker pick up, 3-way selector, 2 volume and 2 tone controls, bigsby-style tremolo with adjustable roller bridge. The tuners are similars to the Gotoh style. Maple neck and rosewood fingerboard with 22 frets. White colour. I recieved with the original hard shell case (for 99 US dollars more).

I play '60 rock style, I run my guitars throgh an handmade germanium fuzz, boss overdrive, danelectro echo, dunlop tremolo, into a Peavey classic 30w. The Eastwood has a great clean tone, I don't use very much the neck pick up but I move beetween the middle and the bridge. 'Tough it has 2 humbucker, it's not extremely powerful like an SG, it has a most sweet tone like a cross beetween a Les Paul and a Rickenbacker with minihumbacker. I find it perfect to play in open tuning with the slide, 'cause of the quite large neck that remind me of a Firebird (but most round) and of course the easy access to higher frets.

The guitar, like all the guitar I've bought new, needed a serious set up! The action was really high, after I gave it to my technician I've found the action too low to slide playing; I've given to him again and now it's perfect. All other things okay. I'm thinking that If I will have more money, at least I'd like to change the bigsby/style tremolo with an original Bigsby B5, like I've done on all my other guitars, but the roller bridge is pretty good.

This guitar is brand new, I don't know how it will wear. The hardware and the finish seems good enough for a guitar of this category, anyway I don't use any guitar without a spare one, and as I've told I use it as a slide guitar.

I've bought this guitar from Mike Robinson of www.myrareguitars.com,
I live in Rome (the real one, Italy) and it has arrived from Canada with a fast and safe shipping. No warranty but I guess I won't need it.

I play since I was 10, now I'm 26. I've bought this guitar because the original italian "Eko Rokes" of the 1967 were the first electric guitar I've ever heard (and seen) in my life; as they are so rare and expensive I could'nt have a reissue at least. Yes, I would buy it again, I like the form much more of the Flying V, I control it's sound as expected; It would be great if the Eastwood would make this guitar also with 12 string, like the original Eko Rokes used to. I'd sure buy one.