Well, after a LONG wait, my Eastman Pagelli showed up today. The specs on this guitar are:
Hand carved spruce top (X braced)
Hand carved flame maple b/s
3 piece maple neck
Rosewood binding
Ebony pickguard, bridge, tailpiece, peghead overlay, fingerboard
Kent Armstrong pickup (floating)
Gotoh tuners
25" scale
1.75" nut
Strung with D'Addario Roundwounds 12-52
These guitars are made as acoustic archtops. This guitar sounds absolutely great, very balanced with more richness than you get out of a lot of archtops. The guitar is also quite loud when played with a pick. Plugged in, it has the typical mid jazz guitar tone, however not muddy (probably the rounds). I pluggged it in to an Aura Spectrum this afternoon and messed with some settings (ended up with Jumbo #13, 50% blend) and the thing sounds incredible. So, enough of that, here are the photos.
Jimmy
PS. Yes, I know it's left handed, according to the Eastman rep, this will be, quite possibly, the only lefty Pagelli Eastman makes (it's not just the guitar, the case is shaped like the guitar and had to be made left handed also).