EART Guitars: The Most EXCITING Budget Guitar Brand Around! (Updated for August 2025)
Have you checked out Eart guitars?
All I'm going to say here is this: prepare to be impressed. Not just at the quality, but at the styling, the features and mainly the price!
They are a pretty new guitar brand, and have been causing a LOT of waves in the industry! Eart guitars appeared a few years ago as if from some technicolour mirage, and brought exciting guitar design and some very impressive specs to a line of instruments that are entirely affordable. This is a brand you need to know about.
Are you ready? Hold onto your hat!
Contents
From Superstrats to Headless Heroes: Who Are EART?
Pro-Level Features at Affordable Prices
From Superstrats to Headless Heroes: Who Are EART?
Eart guitars are made in China to impressive quality levels. The range currently features a wide array of designs, all bearing non-traditional timbers, unusual finishes and a decidedly 'boutique' aesthetic at rock-bottom pricing. Each one, to an instrument, is a stunner. So much is this the case, we genuinely double checked our pricing data before putting them online for sale!
Eart’s offerings take in a fair cross-section of today’s contemporary styles, from classic aged superstrats to flamboyant modern era s-types built for performance. You’ll see LP-style guitars (the EART EGLP-610) and even headless, ergonomic instruments. Quite a disparate range then, but there is certainly a thread that runs through them all, whether in terms of the materials used, the finishes, or in the overall feel. There is a strong 'house style', if you will.
Affordable Boutique?
There is a distinct ‘affordable boutique’ aesthetic happening with Eart. Whilst unique in terms of their look, it’s also fair to say that no guitar brand these days exists without inspiration or reference points from what has come before. This is true of most brands out there, after all!
Obviously, the differences are greater than the similarities, given their respective prices (nobody is saying these are boutique, hand-made guitars, let’s make that clear), but the main point to take away is that Eart have their eye on what contemporary players are after, and are making highly affordable instruments to fit these markets.
So far, this is a story we hear a lot: a Far Eastern guitar company takes various stylistic nods from expensive brands and puts out affordable alternatives. The real story here lies in the level of quality they've managed to build into these guitars…
Stainless Steel Frets
On many top-priced high end guitars, you’ll have seen how stainless steel frets are an important part of the equation. Until now, they’ve been considered a very worthwhile upcharge. Frets are typically made from some variety or other of nickel silver, and these do a great job for a number of years before needing to be crowned, profiled and finally replaced.
Stainless steel frets, on the other hand, are tougher than Robocop. They stay shiny, they almost never wear out (or take literally decades and decades to do so) and provide a stable and trusty surface to play on. We tend to forget that the frets themselves are the very parts of the guitar that our fingers play off, and are therefore massively important to the feel and performance of any guitar. Get the frets right and the job is half-done, frankly.
Eart have excelled here in offering stainless steel frets on ALL of these guitars, including those that are priced just above £300! We’ve never seen this in the industry before! Will this be a game changer? It’s hard to know yet, but the gauntlet has certainly been thrown down.
Pro-Level Features at Affordable Prices
It’s not just the stainless steel frets that make these guitars pretty exceptional value, either. There are a host of features on each Eart that all add up to make this range pretty remarkable, particularly for the amount of coin involved in getting hold of one!
Each style has its own special specs, so here are some features from various models across the whole range, to illustrate just how much guitar you’re getting for your money:
- Specially wound alnico V humbuckers
- Rosewood fingerboards with compound radius of 9.5-14”
- 5 piece necks made of maple and wenge or maple and padauk, featuring compound profiles
- Bone nuts, with some models also using zero frets
Of course, these features all relate to certain instruments, so why don’t we take a quick peek at a few in particular and see which model was which features?
EART EYP-OMNI
The Eart EYP-OMNI is a serious piece of guitar for the modern player! Available in a range of colourful finishes, the EYP-Omni is a looker, for sure. Personally, I'm gettng a mixture of Charvel and Suhr here, looks-wise. This is definitely not a bad thing!
It's pretty incredible how affordable these are, especially when you think of all the performance features built in. This a great choice for discerning guitarists looking for top value, because you're looking at the following:
- 24 stainless steel frets
- Roasted mahogany body
- Roasted maple neck
- Compound profile U-C neck
- Compound radius 9.5"-14" fingerboard
- Coil split on the humbuckers
- 2-point tremolo
Not bad for under £400, right? Those roasted timbers will make the guitar more resonant, not to mention lighter in weight.
The compound radius fingerboard (it flattens out the further you travel up the neck) is a shredder’s paradise, especially with stainless steel frets! The vintage-voiced humbuckers are more than capable of the heavy stuff (nearly all humbuckers are, to be honest), but it’s when the gain is backed off that you’ll be glad that Eart chose these Alnico V pickups, because you’ll get a degree of subtlety, depth and dynamic that more overtly aggressive pickups just can’t manage.
The Eart EYP-Omni is one instrument that can cover a massive amount of musical ground, and in some style too!
Eart GW-2 SE
Headless guitars are an accepted part of the guitar landscape, and have been for a few years now. Eart currently offers a very tempting headless guitar in the form of the GW2-SE. Nowadays, whole subsections of the guitar playing world swear by headless guitars, but it's still rare to find manufacturers who offer a truly affordable way to buy into the style. The Eart GW2-SE addresses that gap in the market and smashes out a home run by bringing players an extremely ergonomic - not to mention enjoyable - experience at a surprisingly low price.
Everything about this is designed to give players an uncompromised experience. The spec is actually very similar to the EYP-Omni, with of course a different bridge due to the headless nature of the guitar. The roasted timbers, the compound profile and radius, the stainles ssteel frets...it's all here!
If you want a futuristic slice of headless guitar action that I reckon you'll have to look long and hard to find a better value - or more stylish - option than this.
Eart for the Win
You can tell by today’s blog that we’re impressed by Eart guitars, right? There is potential here for this brand to be a real game-changer, if they can keep the quality levels up to the standard that we’ve so far seen. By paying attention to what’s happening at the top of the market and then finding ways of realistically applying those features further down the ladder, Eart have made a range of instruments that punch far beyond their weight.
Don’t take our word for it though, try one for yourself at any of our guitarguitar stores! Just don’t leave it too long, okay? They’ll be snapped up!
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