There's one at the local GC. It's a LP style, double bound. It's a Samick Artist Series, prior to Greg Bennett. It's used for $179. I played it for a while, the action is so low it's INSANE, I'd probably raise it, because you just look at it and it frets the note. Anyways, no string buzzing, no fretting out. It's really cool looking, and a tad beat up (needs a new switch) but still sounded pretty nice through the AC4TV I was testing it on.
Anyways, I can't find a damn thing googling for a Samick Artist Series with a string-through body. It has a tune-o-matic style bridge, but no stopbar, it's string through like a tele...which reminded me of Eric's new Godin (e.g. awesomeness).
It can't be purchased till October 24th, because it just came in this week, and they gotta wait 20 days. That didn't stop me, as I put a down payment on it already, so it's waiting for me behind the counter.
Finally got some pics of the Samick. I replaced the ferrules in the front and back, some of the ferrules in the front had sunken in, causing the strings to start cutting into the cap.
raised the action a hair, to address some string buzzing. Set the intonation with no troubles. I have a book by Dan Erlewine, How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great. In it, he details some issues with Gibson-style guitars. One of the things he notes, is that when folks screw the stop-tail way down it causes a lot of pressure on the tune-o-matic bridge. So much so that the bridges start to flex, and sink in the middle, so the radius of the strings does not match the radius of the fretboard.
This Samick does not have a stop tail, being string thru. So as you might expect, there's a lot of pressure on the bridge. It is concave in the middle. I'm not sure this is a huge problem right now. The guitar intonates and plays great, and I don't have any issues with string height that bother me. But perhaps this is why you don't see a lot of string thru guitars with tune-o-matic style bridges. And it may also be why Samick doesn't appear to have made this model for very long.
That's going to be a great guitar. Samick makes a LOT of guitars and do a very good job of it. Seems like the price is more than right. Congrats on your Halloween present. There's one at the local GC. It's a LP style, double bound. It's a Samick Artist Series, prior to Greg Bennett. It's used for $179. I played it for a while, the action is so low it's INSANE, I'd probably raise it, because you just look at it and it frets the note. Anyways, no string buzzing, no fretting out. It's really cool looking, and a tad beat up (needs a new switch) but still sounded pretty nice through the AC4TV I was testing it on.
Anyways, I can't find a damn thing googling for a Samick Artist Series with a string-through body. It has a tune-o-matic style bridge, but no stopbar, it's string through like a tele...which reminded me of Eric's new Godin (e.g. awesomeness).
It can't be purchased till October 24th, because it just came in this week, and they gotta wait 20 days. That didn't stop me, as I put a down payment on it already, so it's waiting for me behind the counter.
I cleaned up the pots and switch with some DeOxit, everything is working well, no crackle, static or popping, so I'm quite pleased.
Anyways, I can't find a damn thing googling for a Samick Artist Series with a string-through body. It has a tune-o-matic style bridge, but no stopbar, it's string through like a tele...which reminded me of Eric's new Godin (e.g. awesomeness).
It can't be purchased till October 24th, because it just came in this week, and they gotta wait 20 days. That didn't stop me, as I put a down payment on it already, so it's waiting for me behind the counter.
Finally got some pics of the Samick. I replaced the ferrules in the front and back, some of the ferrules in the front had sunken in, causing the strings to start cutting into the cap.
raised the action a hair, to address some string buzzing. Set the intonation with no troubles. I have a book by Dan Erlewine, How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great. In it, he details some issues with Gibson-style guitars. One of the things he notes, is that when folks screw the stop-tail way down it causes a lot of pressure on the tune-o-matic bridge. So much so that the bridges start to flex, and sink in the middle, so the radius of the strings does not match the radius of the fretboard.
This Samick does not have a stop tail, being string thru. So as you might expect, there's a lot of pressure on the bridge. It is concave in the middle. I'm not sure this is a huge problem right now. The guitar intonates and plays great, and I don't have any issues with string height that bother me. But perhaps this is why you don't see a lot of string thru guitars with tune-o-matic style bridges. And it may also be why Samick doesn't appear to have made this model for very long.
That's going to be a great guitar. Samick makes a LOT of guitars and do a very good job of it. Seems like the price is more than right. Congrats on your Halloween present. There's one at the local GC. It's a LP style, double bound. It's a Samick Artist Series, prior to Greg Bennett. It's used for $179. I played it for a while, the action is so low it's INSANE, I'd probably raise it, because you just look at it and it frets the note. Anyways, no string buzzing, no fretting out. It's really cool looking, and a tad beat up (needs a new switch) but still sounded pretty nice through the AC4TV I was testing it on.
Anyways, I can't find a damn thing googling for a Samick Artist Series with a string-through body. It has a tune-o-matic style bridge, but no stopbar, it's string through like a tele...which reminded me of Eric's new Godin (e.g. awesomeness).
It can't be purchased till October 24th, because it just came in this week, and they gotta wait 20 days. That didn't stop me, as I put a down payment on it already, so it's waiting for me behind the counter.
I cleaned up the pots and switch with some DeOxit, everything is working well, no crackle, static or popping, so I'm quite pleased.