![]() The Eastsider Custom particularly excels when paired with some overdrive, though, and proved a gristly rocker through Plexi-like settings. Given the dual humbuckers, clean tones often benefit from rolling down the guitar’s volume control slightly, but they’re still meaty and muscular when you get there, implying roadhouse blues and garage rock more than country twang. In bright guitars it can sometimes be strident, but the Eastsider Custom has a warmth and girth at its foundation that play this to its advantage, enhancing complexity and bite. Korina is often talked about as a lighter cousin to mahogany, but it also packs its own upper-midrange zing, that often rings through in both clean and overdriven settings and helps a guitar like this cut through the mix. Tested through a tweed Deluxe-style 1x12 combo, a 65amps London tube amp head with 2x12 cab, and a Quad Cortex modeler into studio monitors and headphones, the Eastsider Custom presented elements of the F-to-G hybrid we might expect, along with elements of its own design that make it something different, and a lot of fun. ![]() Overall, build quality is great, as are the finish and setup Overall, build quality is great, as are the finish and setup. ![]() The 22 medium frets are well polished and smoothly crowned there’s a little snag at a few of the fret ends, but some of that sprouting will likely settle in with warmer, more humid weather. Its medium-C neck profile presents a comfortably rounded shape that most players should find easy to work with, and when strummed unplugged the guitar delivers a rich, balanced tone, with decent acoustic volume. In the hand, the Eastsider Custom feels solid and confident. Reverend’s Pin Lock locking tuners populate the other end, and access to the dual-action truss rod is via the headstock. Hardware follows the “modern-T” standard pretty closely, with a bridge base secured to the body by screws at both the rear edge and the front corners, and loaded with six individually adjustable block saddles, fed by through-body stringing loaded into ferrules in the back. They’re wired to a three-way switch with master volume and tone controls, with a treble-bleed network on the former and a push-pull on the latter to throw the pickups out of phase. In the bridge position, the Telebucker dual-rail humbucker is wound with finer 44-AWG wire to around 14k ohms and loaded with a ceramic magnet. ![]() in the neck position is an HA5 humbucker wound with 42-AWG wire to around 7.5k ohms, and carrying an Alnico V bar magnet. The guitar’s in-house pickup complement arguably takes it even further out of Telecaster/ Esquire territory, although Reverend strives to retain some meaty T-style twang here. Overall, the look is neatly custom indeed: The aged white binding elegantly frames a rich satin cherry finish on the body’s top and back that reveals the korina’s finely speckled grain, while the black three-ply pickguard, ebony fretboard and black headstock face contrast it all beautifully. Taking it further away from the Fullerton template, the double-bound body is made from chambered korina, and the neck is solid three-piece korina with an unbound ebony fretboard. Taking it further away from the Fullerton template, the double-bound body is made from chambered korina, and the neck is solid three-piece korina
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