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Last year’s D’Ambrosio series guitars signified numerous firsts for Eastman, not least that they were US-made with boutique prices to match. These new FullerTones capture the magic at a fraction of the price

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NOT EVERY METAL guitarist needs to string a piece of medieval weaponry up with a set of D’Addario 0.009s to have a good time. Lee Malia doesn’t. When the Bring Me The Horizon guitarist signed up with