This trend did not go unnoticed by some individuals with an eye to the future one of those being Mike Robinson, president of Eastwood Guitars. Want web exclusives like this delivered to your inbox weekly? Sign up for our weekly insider updates. Meanwhile, some disenchantment with the “same old” standard designs began to spread within mainstream guitardom, and it wasn’t long before these “pawnshop dinosaurs” breathed new life in the hands of dedicated players.

Soon, the old “mail order specials” found themselves mired in the “tarpits” of pawn shop windows, to be dissected and collected by a mere handful of guitar aficionados. Lo, and whereupon were born the “Epiphone” line of Gibson, the “Squier” line of Fender along with many new lines of copies, both domestic and Asian. It didn’t take long for the established, known-name manufacturers to hone in on the entry level thing. Some were good and launched many a guitar career, some were just plain bad and discouraged many a would-be player, and some were just too grotesque to be taken seriously by the guitar public. Others - neophytes, and the less heeled - perused mail-order catalogs, or haunted the music stores or department stores of their hometowns, scooping up cool bargain guitars by such names as Kay, Harmony, Teisco, Eko, Guyatone, National, Supro, Airline, Silvertone, Danelectro and many others from here and abroad.

Those who could afford the freight played the guitars of their heroes: Fender, Gibson, Guild, or Gretsch. Thus were born into the world many new species some very distinct from those of the past. The double big bang of the advent of the solid body guitar and the tumultuous storm of rock n’ roll’s arrival in the world of young humans kicked the demand for, and the production of, this new genus of guitar into hyperdrive. Many years passed before the winds of change began to blow. In the Beginning Homo Sapiens created the electric guitar by placing a coil-wound electromagnet in proximity to the strings of an acoustic guitar and running the signal to an amplifying device. Attention class, the subject of today’s lecture is the “Map” guitar manufactured by Eastwood Guitars.

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