Watch out when buying in the used market because the older ones just don't compare. Moral of the story: newer Samicks are better. In the last couple of years the acoustics seem to have been upgraded. I have found out that their JZT-20 guitars are a great value though and you can buy them for a mere pittance of what they are worth. I know Samick makes over half the guitars made in the world,and i know all arent that great. During this phase, the acoustics were still clunky. Discussion in Other Cool Guitars started by rockabillyboyme. The first guitars to get the Bennett treatment were the strat-style electrics.
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(I had a Samick Artist Series jazz box that was virtually identical to a Casino.) Since Bennett came, things have improved tremendously. Bright tone is the way to describe the overall sound of this large body guitar. Samick Greg Bennett Design ST6-2 Acoustic Guitar w/ Grover Tuners & Inlay. Anyone play a Samick Jumbo J 2 I played a Samick Jumbo at the dealer yesterday that has a spruce top, laminate I think and laminated sides and back, but it sounded very good and loud to me, very chimey but yet a very deep bass note with an overall bright tone. They did have a better qualitty line dubbed "Artist Series" that were about the equivalent of Epiphone at the time. Samick LW-015 Acoustic Guitar Indonesia Very Clean. Prior to his arrival, their Samick branded products were unremarkable, about the quality level of Squire. By the mid-1990s, they were the single largest guitar manufacturer in the world Because they build under contract for many famous brand names, more likely than. Several years ago a Samick rep told me that they produced more guitars each year than all other manufacturers combined-at the time it was a believable claim.Ībout three-four years ago (maybe a little longer?), Greg Bennett came on board and began a catalog-wide overhaul of Samick's own offerings. Samick is a South Korean based musical instrument manufacturer, which was founded in 1958 by Hyo Ick Lee, with the goal of 'enriching human life through music, the universal language'. As many others have mentioned, Samick builds for many name-brand companies as well as producing under their own name.