What Model Eastman Electric Archtop Is In This Video By English Band, Flash Mob Jazz?

[SpruceTop]

Thanks for looking in!

[David Eastwood]

It looks very much like a single-pickup version of my AR372CE - an ES-165 copy as opposed to an ES-175 like mine.

Unfortunately the Eastman website doesn’t show it - maybe an AR371?

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[Steve DeRosa]

Eastman AR371CE (also available - and gorgeous - in blonde), a latter-day rendition of a circa-1960 single-humbucker ES-175 (the 2-PU was called ES-175D) - swap the tailpiece and you might be hard-pressed to tell the difference. No longer in the lineup but fairly inexpensive on the used market, with good-to-excellent examples generally selling for well under $1K:

https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Eastman%20AR371CE

[David Eastwood]

I consider myself schooled.

I was under the mistaken impression that the single pickup ES was the ES-165, and the dual, the ES-175.

I now know better, and won’t dare make the same mistake again.

I was right about the AR-371, though

[Steve DeRosa]

Originally Posted by David Eastwood

I consider myself schooled.

I was under the mistaken impression that the single pickup ES was the ES-165, and the dual, the ES-175.

I now know better, and won’t dare make the same mistake again...

No worries, and an honest mistake if you came to the archtop game only recently: FYI the original single-pickup ES-175 (introduced in 1949 with a single P-90, and out of production since 1971) was reissued in the '90s as the Herb Ellis ES-165, retaining all the characteristic features of its circa-1960 PAF predecessor until it acquired a suspended pickup a la Johnny Smith (in the early-2K's TMK)...

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by Steve DeRosa

No worries, and an honest mistake if you came to the archtop game only recently: FYI the original single-pickup ES-175 (introduced in 1949 with a single P-90, and out of production since 1971) was reissued in the '90s as the Herb Ellis ES-165, retaining all the characteristic features of its circa-1960 PAF predecessor until it acquired a suspended pickup a la Johnny Smith (in the early-2K's TMK)...

Thanks, Steve. The primary reason for my confusion is that a dear friend of mine owned an actual ES-165 for a while - I’ve seen it and played it - so I always thought that that was the ‘single pickup ES-165’. Now that he and I are beginning to dabble in more jazz-oriented stuff, he’s regretting ever selling it - but we all know how that game goes around here.

At least our OP should know what to be looking for now

[SpruceTop]

Thanks, Steve and David, for enlightening me on the Eastman AR371CE and the model sure seems nicely priced on the used market.