Greg Bennett Guitars

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Greg Bennett Guitars are produced by Samick Music Corporation.

After 40 years of producing "budget brand" guitars, Korean musical instruments manufacturer Samick hired industry veteran Greg Bennett to give their guitar line a radical makeover, with the goal of improving appearance, sound quality, and build quality.

Greg started redesigning the instruments at his studio in Nashville, Tennessee, after which the search for the electronics and woods took place. The new Samick guitars, now under the name of Greg Bennett Guitars, possess a wide array of professional level parts including pickups from Seymour Duncan, machine heads from Grover and bridges by Wilkinson. The new woods used in the production are also high quality; the search for distinctive tonewoods ranged world-wide, netting woods such as ovangkohl and ebony from Africa, rosewood from India and rock maple from North America.

Greg Bennett Guitars manufactures a range of stringed instruments including electric, acoustic and archtop guitars, electric and acoustic basses, and mandolins, banjos, ukuleles and Autoharps.

Elegant names were given to every line of instruments to stimulate better product identification and also to give a more "high-end" feel. Perhaps the most common distinctive feature in all these new instruments (apart from the mandolins, banjos and autoharps) are the signature angled-back headstock. These headstocks feature the new logo right at the top and are designed small intentionally as Greg states that bigger headstocks rob more energy from a vibrating string, causing less sustain.

Greg Bennett Guitars have gained acclaim from many performing artists.

1 Acoustic Lineup
2 Electric Lineup
3 Bass Lineup
4 External links

[edit] Acoustic Lineup

Gold Rush
Regency
Kensington
Eden Plains
Worthington
Winsor
Beaumont
Continental
Cheyenne Solid Body
Elan
Kona
Remington
- Remingon Solid Body
Carolina
Rio Grand
Laredo
Blackbird
- Blackbird Solid Body
Barcelona Classic Guitars
Ukuleles
Banjos
McCoy A-Style Mandolins
Hatfield F-Style Mandolins

[edit] Electric Lineup

Avion - Single-cutaway, modified Gibson Les Paul designs (Available in mini version)
Ultramatic - Double-cutaway, modified PRS designs
Torino - Double-cutaway, modified Gibson SG designs
Malibu - Double-cutaway, modified Fender Stratocaster designs (Available in mini version)
Concorde - Double-cutaway superstrat designs, only with a stopbar
Interceptor II - Double-cutaway, modified Ibanez RG designs
Fastback - Single-cutaway original designs
Formula - Single-cutaway Fender Telecaster designs
Metalhead - Double-cutaway original design
Cobra - Double-cutaway Silvertone Apocalypse design (Available in mini version)
LaSalle - Single-cutaway archtops
Royale - Single-cutaway thinlines

[edit] Bass Lineup

Fairlane - Modified Fender Jazz Bass designs
Corsair - Modified Fender Precision Bass designs (Available in mini version)
Cobra Bass - Modified Silvertone Apocalypse designs
Royale Bass - Semi-acoustic thinline bass designs
Tabu Bass - Original design
Elan Acoustic Bass - Acoustic bass based on their Elan series of acoustic guitars
Regency Acoustic Bass - Acoustic bass based on their Regency series of acoustic guitars
Remington Acoustic Bass - Acoustic bass based on their Remington series of acoustic guitars