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Unless you have a pathological dislike of money.
They are both great guitars and are very well built.
One of the things that appealed to me about these was that they had thicker closer to 58 type necks, were well built, resonant and had few of the issues I encountered when picking up similar speck Gibson’s -oh and I didn’t have to pay the extra for a custom shop model to get what I was after as a basic stock instrument.
Despite what is so often said about them, I don’t find Eastman’s as uninspiring as so many folks claim -I get that with Gibson’s, and find about one in every 10-12 is the exception and inspires me. Many modern Gibson’s are good guitars but not much more than that and yes I do own a couple so am not entirely uninitiated.
The only change I’ve made was to swap out the Seymour Duncan 59s in the sb59.
Definitely look for a second hand one, they are much better value.
As a side note, I’ve too many humbucker equipped guitars so my t59v (which isn’t quite what you are after but may be a temptation) may be available if you’re interested -in short it’s awesome and the biggest sounding guitar I currently own but I’m in a Rickenbacker and jazzmaster phase.