Greg Bennett Guitars

Greg Bennett Guitars are produced by Samick Music Corporation.

After 40 years of producing 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. [ [http://www.smcmusic.com/website_gregbennett/about.html About Greg Bennett guitars] accessed 2007-05-05]

Bennett 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 designed by 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.Fact|date=May 2007 Perhaps the most common distinctive feature in all these new instruments (apart from the mandolins, banjos and autoharps) are the signature angled-back headstock.Fact|date=May 2007 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.Fact|date=May 2007

Greg Bennett Guitars have gained acclaim from many performing artists. [ [http://www.smcmusic.com/website_gregbennett/artists.html Greg Bennett Guitars - Artists] accessed 2007-05-05]

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

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
*Rockwell - Based on the Gibson X-Plorer

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

References

External links

*http://www.gregbennettguitars.com/Guitar East (http://www.guitareast.com) specializing in Greg Bennett guitars