EART 2021 E-335 

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Here's a great example of what I've been saying for 30+ years: give a 4000$ Gibson to a beginner, it will sound terrible, but put any guitar, in the hands of a real pro, and magic, will come out of it, no matter the price tag of the instrument.

Got mine this week. I've been playing for 60 years, owned Gibsons, Fenders, etc. This is the most playable, by far.

I've wanted to learn to play the guitar for years, so I just purchased this E-335 after checking yours and several other reviews. Thanks! ...and your "unboxing" intro music sounds awesome!! 🎶 🎸

Got mine yesterday, just like all have said, the finish is impecable, the fret work is superior to just about any guitar I've had and it plays well, sounds great and did not break the bank

I received my Eart E-335 5 weeks ago and it goes well past my expectations. It was perfect right out of the box and the reviews on this instrument are not exagerated. The finish is flawless. The best bang for the buck as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks for the great demos!

Middle position on those pickups was the sweet spot

Thanks Jon! I appreciate your reviews, and am always impressed with your playing!

Your video is a year old when I found it .. I’ve been deciding on a new guitar but since I’m older with fingers to match looking for an easy playing instrument that being retired I could afford.. Ty Ty for this video and review.. it’s now just a matter of saving a bit .. .. and you play exquisitely fine. Thx again

Looks and sounds like a great value! Great playing Jonathan

Thank you!! Was on the fence about getting one of these. Going to get one now.

Very excited to put my hands on one of these

Thanks again jon! Love your playing too!!

Had it over a year now and it’s SO GOOD…play it way more than my Eastman and the pickups are what really blew me away…hot ripping bridge, warm full neck, middle sounds great….I have 57 classics in a Les Paul I own and the EART replicas sound just as good

I just purchased an EART Guitars T-380. This video was an encouragement to pull the trigger on the purchase. Thanks for all your reviews.

I LOVE mine! I had a Stetsbar laying around that needed a home, so I installed it. Outstanding guitar for all styles of music.

I've been looking at this guitar for a while now Jonathan so, as usual, I was delighted to see, and hear, it in your trusty hands and get your much valued opinion. I liked the fact that it had stainless steel frets ( at the price ) and another reviewer said he loved the neck. It sounds great too and your opinion of the pickups has encouraged me to look to buying this guitar. I used to have a lovely 335 but sold it many years ago when times were tight ( I still regret it ) but this looks like an excellent, affordable option. Thanks again for your superb reviews Jonathan. Love & Light brother x

I am a super fan of matte finish and open pore style. Got mine from Amazon early this year. I think EART did a great job coordinating features people appreciate, without going to far away from 335 territory.

Thanks Jonathan, I just ordered one on Amazon and it should arrive on 20 July 21. Looking forward to it, it's my first electric.

Thank you for a very nice demo of this guitar by Eart. I have the Eart NKC-1 telecaster type guitar, and it is a wonderful instrument. Excellent playing sir.

That is some great playing. Very smooth!

Great guitar, your videos are awesome Jonathan… cheers!!!

What a Beautiful job you did playing , Holly Smokes , I could watch you jam all day, Truly a Master... Thank You Sir Jon !!!!! Iv'e been looking at this EART-335 & I'm now sold...

Hey Jon vid again👍. Just got this week my EART headless W1 guitar, I think it's great value for the money. Great guitar builders

Had mine (Eart 335) now for a few months. When I first got it, it's all I played for weeks....loved it! Then I hung it on the wall and went back to my Gibson, PRS, and Fenders. Now I pick it up again and it seems EVEN BETTER! It is simply the easiest playing, best sounding, lightest, most perfect all around guitar I have. Thanks for your reviews...I always love your straight forward honest and approach.

Thank you for this Sir Jonathan

Eart I almost bought a year ago seeing their ad on Amazon. Pretty cool. Nice bro!!!

I can listen to your playing al day long, you surprise me with every phrase. 👍

Nice playing as always my friend. Honest review.

Great Review! EART makes really excellent guitars! You're a fantastic guitarist! Rock On!

I had to watch that first part twice, couldn't get enough of that buttery smooth ear candy! If I didn't already have an Epi 335 pro.... Really like the matte finish look and especially the way the headstock was done. Pickups sound amazing but I wish they went with a softer white for the binding. I do own the Nk-C3, glad to see they added this to their line of guitars.

Turn it up Jon!!♥️♥️♥️ jamming’

You are quite the player, my friend. Just obtained a Hamer 335 style, but it’s great to hear someone show off the sounds of these awesome guitars…

Gorgeous guitar. Gorgeous playing.

Dude, your fingers are insane. Love your work. . . . INSPIRING! ! ! !

I received mine two weeks ago and it is a very good guitar, the sound is fantastic and its headstock so far works fine. I like the color and I am satisfied. I have two American Fenfer stratocasters and a Fender Telecaster and several other guitars. Greetings from Antofagasta, Chile

So fine a review.....thnx.

Awesome video Jonathan!

Thanks!

Amazing how they do all that, even stainless frets, for that price! And it plays and sounds good!!

Love the first tune of the video.

Really enjoyed your playing, my friend.

Great vid and nice guitar. '06 IBZ AC AS73 bought new some i'm set.

Very nice video. Thank you!

I've miss a Hollowbody and been searching for what to buy. I love the looks and specs on this one so I pulled the trigger today from Amazon. If it shouldn't be 100% setup for my taste isn't a problem, I always adjust my guitars anyways, as long as the parts are good quality. Great playing as always Jon!!

Yes, that´s a really nice Guitar ! Looks very good and have a good Tone !

I love your guitar playing Jon...liked, subscribed, and rang dat bell...! AND I'm buying an EART ES-335 tomorrow morning from the EART link below, it's already in my cart ready to go. I was going to spend over twice as much on a D'Angelico DC mini Premier, which is a very attractive guitar, but the tones you demonstrated from this EART are more what I'm looking for - clean and pretty, rather than distorted hard rock. I also like the finish more, rather than a thick, shiny finish, plus mahogany is my favorite tone wood. The people at EART designed this guitar properly, and the pickups are voiced beautifully, hoping to see it next week. I'll be digging your video music in the future - cheers!

Wonderful playing with cool guitarist .🎼🎶🎸👍😊

You're having a Bonnamasa Effect right now! Its awesome, rebel on!!!

Good job on the review Jon I Received my EART ES-335 on the 23rd of December, opened it on Christmas day and was COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY...WHAT THE HeLL is going on!!! I never, ever buy anything on the net based on the recommendations of people on these "Diy or review" channels. Honestly, I was expecting a worse case scenario as many of my friends have fallen into this kind of trap. This guitar is RIDICULOUS, and buy that I mean it is mind bogglingly FANTASTIC. I have been playing and teaching guitar for over forty years, and have also built dozens of guitars for myself and other working musicians. I have also played hundreds of guitars in big and small retail stores all across the U.S...and every guitar that ever looked and played this well was in the 2k-3k category. I personally took a magnifying glass to this piece and went over and over and only found ONE small flaw in the binding (not visible to the naked eye) and even that was just a small tool mark. The intonation was off by a little bit and it took all of five min. to correct it. IMO, the Pickups are great and on or off this guitar sings. Honestly, the only thing I wish EART would have done is to KEEP the LOVE ROCK logo on the headstock, "MINE DID NOT HAVE ONE ON IT" which was kinda disappointing and to be honest, IMO if they just replaced that EART with "LOVE ROCK" it would look even better. All in all this guitar exceeded all my expectations. I found this guitar to be wonderfully and beautifully made in spite of the steel frets which all are reaving about (and I could care less about them). IMO this piece in particular should make the brand name competitors (you know who you are) shake in their boots. Don't get me wrong, I am a brand collector and fanatic from way back, but at this price point...why oh why would you pay thousands of dollars for a brand name ES-335 when you could get this beauty of an ES-335 which actually plays better than it's brand name counterpart and all for under $400.00. WOW, keep it up EART. Oh yeah, put the LOVE ROCK logo back on the guitar. PEACE.

I firmly believe that you could make an electric shovel sound like a million bucks. Great playing. I thought the Tokai had a bit warmer tone, but the EART sounded very nice. Good to have more value options on the market for players. The compound radius is an interesting feature I've not noticed on other semi hollow body guitars. Wonder how it would compare to my D'ANGELO Excel DC.

Nice, I like the Tokai too.

Love the intro music

Good review

Wow great tone great look , tone sounds like Larry Carlton playing his guitar very Steely Dan sounding Great playing Jon wow now I’m going to have to get one 👍👍

Great video; so great that the cost of these EART guitars on eBay is almost matching an Epiphone.

This cat is feelin it.. He loves it and it comes thru in aces.

Thank you

I bought an EART EGLP-511 (which is currently out of production) based on what I heard about this guitar. I LOVE IT. It is without doubt the smoothest playing instrument compared to Fender, Gibson, and Rickenbacker, all of which I've owned in the past. The fretwork is FLAWLESS on all their models. I now play a 3000 guitar with a $400 pricetag. Btw: I admit I am a Gibson snob.

Sounds a great guitar at a good price. I think it would look better with a gloss finish. Thanks for another great review Jonathan

just ordered mine also free shipping to australia thats a bonus...

cool,love it, Big love from zion❤

Наконец то нашел нормальную демонстрацию инструмента. Трудно выбрать инструмент через Ютуб, потому как многие не умеют извлекать правильный звук, но пытаются демонстрировать.

Very nice review and guitar! Only complain, I would love for it to have Creme coloured bindings.

I just bought this a month ago and it absolutely RULES! One of favorites now, can’t put it down….neck is so good, pickups are great too and can rock hard if you’d like…only thing I did was change the strings and put Grovers on

Out of the box this guitar had issues. After spending three hours making it right, I love it. Plays great, sounds great. Tuning machines could have been spaced better. It does not interfere with playability.

I get the feeling you could make a 2x4 with the wire from a screen door sound right with some good pickups

Great playing makes this budget guitar sing. I own one myself and it plays great. I also owned a 1967 Gibson 335 which sounded amazing but weight was too much for my back. I also own a Burny 335 copy and it sounds and plays great too. So many great 335 guitars to be found today. Thanks for your review. Dave.

Good lord, you’re good!!

I just ordered a firefly 338 which is almost a twin to the one you have . hope it sounds just as good .take care.👍

That’s a great value ES copy Jon, possibly better value than the Harley Benton HB35 +. I was lucky to get my HB when they used Wilkinson pups and better woods. I couldn’t hear a big difference between the two and I know Tokai are quality which says a lot. Very interesting Jon - cheers 😀

seen a couple other reviews of this guitar recently... your playing really showed off what it can do better than the others! I like the unique finish on the body and neck. overall it seems like a very good value for the price. the only negative for me is the sound of the guitar seems a bit too bright and you showed that with the comparison to the Tokai. I'm sure its possible to work around that with tone knobs and amp settings. would def consider getting this.

would you recommend this guitar for jazz? or should I go with the epiphone or ibanez artcore? Awesome playing! :)

i really like your style of music, especially the song you played in the prs 245 video. I live in China and i have to decide between getting the eart 335 for 400 dollars or the prs se 245 standard for 650 dollars. What would you suggest? thanks in advance!

Thanks Jon for the demo. Could you tell what is the wireless jack sender you use on the Tokai comparison?

Nice Jonathan 👍.

Got another one for you sir Jonathan... Eastman Guitars

just got mine today , its a great guitar and i noticed it does not have the love rock decal on the headstock , maybe tokai said something ?...

Just got mine, and if I had to pick out 1 small bothersome thing, it's the pots are very "free" spinning.a bit more drag on them would be great but, if you have to nit-pick in this price range, it's a good thing

If I could play the way you do I’d probably never sleep. I’d just play day after day nonstop!

I know you like to work on guitars so I'm going to give you a tutorial on how I do my fret polishing. I use a fret Guru ultimate fret end file these are the best I have found. The nose is rounded over and Polished the bottom is ground Precision flat and Polished. They are a small square Grobet file. The flat end goes on the bottom against your fretboard. These files are great for creating binding nibs. They allow you to get right down in the corner where the Fret meets the board. I usually go left right so starting from the 22nd fret on the high E Side I place the file right down in the corner against the fretboard and the Fret and I go 2 Strokes from the bottom up and over the top lightly knocking off the little Edge between the bevel and the Fret. I do this on every Fret then I return coming back from the first Fret to the 22nd Fret doing the right hand side of each fret the same way. Then I flip the guitar around and do the low E Side from left to right starting with the first Fret. All I do is go from the bottom of each Fret up and over on the left side of each Fret and then coming back I go from the bottom up and over on the right side of each Fret, it doesn't really matter which side you start on high E or low E. I'm just ever so slightly knocking the edge off giving it a slight preshape before I do my polishing. I use 3M TriMite wet/dry polishing paper. It comes in six different color coded micron graded grits starting with 400 Grit which is Olive green, working my way all the way up to the last grit which is 8000 Grit. the last grit is so pale color-wise that I always Mark the back side so I won't get the back and the front mixed up. It's so fine you can't really tell by feel. I get mine from Rio Grande jewelry supply because you get two full size 9"× 11" inch sheets of each Grit, 12 sheets total for the same price $15 everybody else charges for one sheet of each grit, 6 sheets total. They are also full-sized sheets and a lot of people will tell you they're sending you 12 sheets but if you look it's 1/4 or 1/2 sheets. I cut the paper into 1/4 sheet size an fold each piece like a tri-fold wallet. Starting with the coarsest Grit going from the first fret I polish up all the Frets and the Fretboard at the same time. Once I've run through all the Frets I will hold that particular Grit of polishing paper at approximately a 45 degree angle on the edge of the guitar and run up and down the entire length of the fretboard hitting every single fret probably 30 times. I do this on both sides of the guitar, the high E and the low E. I repeat the same process using the next grit finer until I get all the way down to the last grit which is 8000 Grit. On the last three grits I will polish the Fret slots and the saddle slots while I'm at it. when I'm finished my unfinished Ebony, Rosewood or other unfinished wood shines like a polished Rock, like lacquered Maple even though the wood is unfinished and the Frets look like newly polished chrome, like mirrors. I don't spend any time taping up the guitar except the pickups because I don't want any of this dust to get down into the guitar around the pickups. The time that I would spend taping up a guitar I use on the polishing, killing three birds with one stone. I end up with the entire Fretboard and the Frets looking like glass as well as beautifully rounded hemispherical ends on the Frets which feel so incredibly comfortable when you're playing. I don't spend any more time than I would meticulously taping up the guitar and polishing the Frets by themselves. Everybody that I have done this for or has seen a guitar that I have done this on comments on how shiny the fretboard is they wonder if I have put some kind of finish on it and they are amazed at how smooth and nice all of it feels. I hope this helps you once you try this method you won't ever go back. God Bless You and Your Family!! Jimmy in NC.... PS. Feel free to contact me anytime. My email is: thepainter.198094@gmail.com

Hi Jon....just watched this video....how would you compare the EART to the Sire 335? Was looking at the Sire, but I just came across the EART and am wondering if the Sire is worth almost double? Thanks!

Is there binding on the f holes? If so well done - quite rare at this pricepoint. i've customed my HB 35 with Hipshot tuners, CTS pots, Gotoh bridge, bone nut, 6way Freeway switch and Gretsch PU's. That was a really hard work (all done through the f holes with hands like spades), so now the price of my HB is way over this guitar and quite simillar soundwise. If i did know this guitar earlier i think i did have bought this EART. I like that "finish" a lot, after a year of playing, it will look very unique signed by sweat and rubbing. Thanks for this review and comparision with the Tokai.

Nice video Jon..guitar sounds great for the money! Saw a nice review of it by Darrel Braun!

Just wondering is it worth the extra money to buy The PRS semi hollow SE or this will work for me starting back playing could use extra money for Amp and good stings and is there much to setup? Thanks in advance

So many other reviewers I have to take with a huge grain of salt. But, Not this guy! He knows guitars and wears one out! Very honest straight forward reviews by someone who can tell differences. Yes, he can pull tone from a wet sack, but, that’s part of what makes him such a reviewer, his ear. I’m a subscriber and if you are a guitar aficionado, you should be too!

Ik heb sinds 2 maanden ook een EART gitaar en raak mijn Ibanez GB en Fender Strato niet eer aan.

Hi Jonathan. Great video!! What is the website to order this guitar?

Could you demo the Tokai es78? Greetings from Belgium !

Very nice playing, even moving! I'm tempted to want to have this guitar. However, their site is unclear about shipping costs, you only get to know after ordering. I could order from Amazon, but there customers are complaining about VAT. You may have to pay 500 instead of the 400 you expect, due to taxes. It is also not clear whether it's the 2021 model. And the package is said to be over 22 kilos. That seems a lot to me for a hollow body. So I think the company has some things to improve in the buying process.

Nice guitar tone baby... you should try vintage vsa 500, and try to feel it.., GBU..

This guitar is now $279 on Amazon. Do you still recommend it? Ur thoughts on the $279 price? Thanks.

Great playing as usual sir….I’m very close to buying this guitar, the pickups sounded nice but I’m a big fan of the Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups, so I think that’s what’s going in there….sorry if I missed you’re explanation but how was the set up out of the box? Thanks And God bless you sir

Good review, plus they have it a lefty version. 👍🤣🍻

I've seen tons of your videos and I've never seen a bad one. You never let me down always great. Epic. I would like to know your opinion on this guitar versus an Epiphone 335 Pro. Last Christmas December 2021 me, my family and my nephew who got his stepfather and Epiphone 335 Pro in the same vintage sunburst color that you have this Eart guitar. It has a Pao Ferro fretboard which I really like because it is so smooth slick and waxy the wood is that when I polish it it looks like it's been finished without a finish on it. It polishes up and shines like lacquered maple with just the bare wood and it is a closed poor wood it just looks really great. The Epiphone 335 pro model has the small block inlays which are really beautiful and push pull pots so you can split the coils. A lot of guitars that have this feature the pickups just sound like weak thin pickups but these sound really good on the single coil setting and on the humbucker setting they are really warm and fat sounding. I used to hear people complain about Epiphone pickups but they said in 2020 they had a major Improvement and I really believe it. This was purchased for my brother-in-law Craig and he really loves this guitar he's been wanting a 335 Gibson but none of us had the money to get it so we got the Epiphone brand new. It was $500 but I got it on sale at Musician's Friend for $400 and I'll have to say it's been every bit as good as any Gibson I've ever seen. The fretwork was a lot better than the fretwork on his 2015 Les Paul Studio. But had lousy fretwork and I had to do a complete level crown and polish on that guitar to make it playable. I really didn't have to do anything on this guitar except I wanted to make it extra nice so I put my special fret and fretboard polishing technique on it. this leaves you with a fretboard that shines like lacquered maple fruits that look like newly polished chrome and rounded hemispherical ends on the frets. I did change the Wilkinson tuners which were adequate to a really nice set of 19:1 ratio Kluson Revolution locking tuners. They have the exact same look and footprint as the Vintage 2 hole tuners have but they are modern sealed down like a Steelers which are Super accurate. these tuners are the best on the market in this particular style. I would really real you your opinion and expertise as to what you think the comparison is between these two guitars the Epiphone and the Eart. As always God bless you and your family. I sent Craig a link to your video on your testimony of coming to Christ both him and myself are Christians and have given our lives to Christ long ago but we thought your story was moving it moved me to tears and he said the same thing. your friend, Jimmy in NC....

$400?! What a great time to be a guitar addict!

Hey Jon, did you mange to get control over the intonation as you mentioned?

Jonathan, can you confirm with Eart guitars that they actually use Stainless Steel frets and not nickel coated frets that are not real steel thx. There was a comment on your site concerning this and ask for some due diligence if you would be so kind to get to the bottom of this. BTW please play some more ribs, but like at least five minutes of jamming. I'd love to have it to listen to. Thx again. RS

How does this guitar compare to The Sire Larry Carlton H7 guitar?