00:00We wanted to do a neck that is, in our opinion, an improvement on the four-piece one that was designed by the brilliant Leo Fender.
00:09Hi guys, Matt from Guitar World here at Guitar Summit.
00:112025, I'm here with Pepin from Eastman.
00:13So good to see you. You've got some new guitars on display here.
00:16I'm a huge fan. Can you just tell us about what's going on here?
00:19First of all, thank you for your kind words.
00:21Yeah, this is the Kaufman series, the Eastman-Kaufman series.
00:25Made and finished by Albert Kaufman.
00:27Amazing work, a real artist.
00:31And the most beautiful thing for me personally, I was made in Holland, but these guitars were also made in Holland.
00:36So that is very special for me as a Dutchman.
00:39To say that I've always wanted to say that, hey, these are made in Holland.
00:43Well, this is really made in Holland.
00:44So it's an all-Dutch-made guitar.
00:48Albert Kaufman is a real artist when it comes to his finishes and his aging is, I would say, second to none.
00:56I mean, it looks incredible under the light.
00:58Yeah, this is the most heavy one that we have.
01:00Of course, there's all kinds of stages that you can look into.
01:03It's got Lollar Dog Ear pickups.
01:06All the pickups on the Kaufman series are all Lollars.
01:09The wood is pine.
01:12And here you see small decals showing that this is a Kaufman-made Eastman.
01:18I mean, the big thing, because you did the Fuller Tone and the D'Ambrosio ones.
01:22Yes.
01:22And now this is like an extension of that, right?
01:23Exactly.
01:24So we've got the D'Ambrosios, which are made in California and L.A.
01:27And those are done by Alto D'Ambrosio.
01:31And then we have the Fuller Tones coming from our Chinese workshops.
01:34And I would say none of these guitars are, not one is better or worse than the other.
01:41It's just, what are we using?
01:42And on these ones, obviously, there's so much work going into the details of aging.
01:49And the aging varies.
01:51You can go really light.
01:54He calls it time travel treatment.
01:56So, yes, there's dings and dongs on there.
02:00But still, there's no bare wood.
02:02Whereas on the offset, you really see it's scene placed.
02:06I also love that.
02:07Yeah, that's a great finish.
02:10I was just telling, when Albert is doing sparkle in his workshop, his kitchen is right next to the workshop.
02:17So when they're having lasagna, there's the sparkles in the lasagna.
02:20So you've got to come up with a lasagna sparkle color, right?
02:23But here you see it, it is, yeah, it's crackle and stuff, but there's no bare wood.
02:30So you can have it in any kind of time travel treatment that you want.
02:35I think as well that what's really cool about these ones is they're like, they look really fresh.
02:40And I think in a market where everything looks quite similar, this is like, puts like a really cool spin on that.
02:45And also, you've got this Fullerton neck joint.
02:48How did that come about?
02:49What's the thought process behind that?
02:50Yeah, the thing, we would never have the Fullerton series or the Dembrosio series or the Kaufman series if Otto was not the brilliant man he is as a designer.
02:59Because we wanted to do a neck that is, in our opinion, an improvement on the four-piece one that was designed by the brilliant Leo Fender.
03:09So what Otto did, being an archtop builder, he wanted to improve the connection between the body and the neck.
03:16So the neck goes all the way under, right up to the middle pickup.
03:21So if you unscrew the two bolts that are in the back, you still can't get the neck off.
03:27Yeah, okay.
03:27Because it's underneath.
03:28You have to pick up the whole pickguard.
03:30Oh, interesting.
03:31But that gives like a real full contact.
03:34So it's almost like a set neck guitar.
03:36Yeah, interesting.
03:37There's just as much contact.
03:38And at the same time, it's still really that bolt-on brightness and sparkiness that you have from a guitar like that.
03:47So obviously, this will not sound like a solid body SB59.
03:53That's really cool.
03:53So when are these?
03:54Have these been announced now?
03:55Yeah, we've just announced them.
03:56These are the first ones that Albert has ever did.
03:59Okay, wow.
04:00He's working hard on the next ones.
04:02We're hoping to have the first ones, November, going to store.
04:05Are they going to be like a limited run or are they just going to keep going into?
04:08We're hoping to continue a series that we're offering.
04:10Awesome.
04:11That was great to hear.
04:12Yeah, thanks for showing us.
04:12That was really cool.
04:13Thank you, Matt.
04:14Cheers.
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