I am ashamed...

indie · Post by **indie** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:06 pm

I walked into a guitar store yesterday, picked up a samick guitar, and actually liked it! Worse than all of this is I am thinking of buying it

. Has anyone else suffered this? Maybe samick make okay guitars now....
Has anyone else picked up a samick and found it to be less than terrible?

Mike_Hosking · Post by **Mike_Hosking** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:18 pm

i once did, but now if i picked it up i wouldnt like it, coz my jackson is so nice and i remember the samick having a big neck, i like thin necks

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:30 pm

Just don't pick them up. That way you will never know.

I am lucky to find maybe two lefty guitars in a Guitar shop these day so I don't suffer from this problem. I have often wondered what some Brands play like.

I did have to sit and watch Bluesgeek play on the Gary Moore Les Paul for thirty minutes once. It was painful not able to try it or any other guitar for that matter.

offender · Post by **offender** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:45 pm

Samick do make a lot of guitars in the world - their factories make guitars for many other companies (obviously their budget lines in most cases I suspect).

Just as there can be crap guitars for the good brands based on the idea of a precision device that is mass produced having duds - there can also be the converse where a budget range of guitars could have the ones that are particularly good as everything goes right in the process for that guitar.

If its good, you like it and the price is good then does it matter what brand it is?

offender · Post by **offender** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:48 pm

TMG 03 wrote: I am lucky to find maybe two lefty guitars in a Guitar shop these day so I don't suffer from this problem. I have often wondered what some Brands play like.

If you're interested - off the top of my head I know of the following leftie guitars in Wellington

Rockshop - LH Tokai Les Paul copy (around the 1000 mark)
Music Warehouse LH - about 2 weeks ago saw a LH Epiphone G400 (SG copy) for around 549 from memory
I am pretty sure Weta Guitars have a LH Ibanez Les Paul copy - unsure of the price

Thats all I can remember from having looked around over the last few weeks!

LH guitars just look plain wierd though - FREAK!

Man Who Sold the World · Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:26 pm

My flatmate has a samick acoustic that is quite nice.

If I was to buy an acoustic it'd probably be a samick, simply 'cause they're cheap, and they ain't half bad.

Post by Bg » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:29 pm

nope, lets face it, if everyone thought that, fender would have been written off after the 80's. A guy I know has an Samick Acoustic Bass which is bloody good...

TMG 03 · Post by **TMG 03** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:50 pm

offender wrote:
TMG 03 wrote: I am lucky to find maybe two lefty guitars in a Guitar shop these day so I don't suffer from this problem. I have often wondered what some Brands play like.

I am pretty sure Weta Guitars have a LH Ibanez Les Paul copy - unsure of the price

Thats all I can remember from having looked around over the last few weeks!

LH guitars just look plain wierd though - FREAK!

I left two messages on their answer phone on Friday about that guitar. No one rang me back. I am very interested n a Goldtop Les PAul style guitar. Any help on the price would be great.

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:14 am

hey i saw that lefty ibanez les paul.. if i remember correctly.. 600.. not bad

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 1:46 am

I actually talked to one of the guys in there about the guitar. He said that he would have sold it three times over every week had it been right handed. looked like a very nice axe, and the chap seemed to think that it was superb, he wasn't trying to sell it to me so I can onyl assume that he was tellign the truth.

offender · Post by **offender** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:56 am

TMG 03 wrote:
offender wrote:
TMG 03 wrote: I am lucky to find maybe two lefty guitars in a Guitar shop these day so I don't suffer from this problem. I have often wondered what some Brands play like.

I am pretty sure Weta Guitars have a LH Ibanez Les Paul copy - unsure of the price

Thats all I can remember from having looked around over the last few weeks!

LH guitars just look plain wierd though - FREAK!
I left two messages on their answer phone on Friday about that guitar. No one rang me back. I am very interested n a Goldtop Les PAul style guitar. Any help on the price would be great.

Weta guitars are closed for the long weekend unfortunately!
They should get back to you on Tuesday I would think!!

Tsuken · Post by **Tsuken** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:19 am

I haven't played a new Samick at all, but I have played one newer than my old Samick strat copy (my first electric guitar, back in 1986 or something) - it was a copy of a BC Rich Warlock. It was actually really nice to play, and had pretty nice sounding pickuips if I remember correctly (I've since ripped it apart and cannibalised it for parts

).

Basically I voted for them making some decent guitars, based purely on the same reasoning Bluesgeek mentioned. Any company can improve. Not everyone will, granted, but they can, and on the face of it Samick appear to have done so.

The Scarecrow · Post by **The Scarecrow** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:27 am

Well, I just saw a pic of the one Indie was talking about, and it's not half-bad one the eye - there are Strat and Telecaster elements in there, but I'd trust Indie's judgement on this, so if it plays well and sounds okay, it might not be as bad as Samick has been made out to be in the past.

Come to think of it, my school used Samick accoustics for lessons, and though I was no judge of guitars seven years back almost, I knew it played about lot better then my accoustic..

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