Greg Bennett Guitars are produced by Samick

Samick

Samick is the name of a Korea-based musical instrument manufacturer, one of the largest in the world.The name refers to the entire Samick Musical Instruments, which owns several manufacturers of pianos, guitars, and other instruments. The company started as 'Samick Pianos' in 1958, manufacturing...

 Music Corporation.

After 40 years of producing guitars, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

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Samick

Samick is the name of a Korea-based musical instrument manufacturer, one of the largest in the world.The name refers to the entire Samick Musical Instruments, which owns several manufacturers of pianos, guitars, and other instruments. The company started as 'Samick Pianos' in 1958, manufacturing...

 hired industry veteran Greg Bennett to give their guitar line a radical makeover, with the goal of improving appearance, sound quality, and build quality.
Bennett started redesigning the instruments at his studio in Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, 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

Pickup (music technology)

A pickup device is a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations, usually from suitably equipped stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar, Chapman Stick, or electric violin, and converts them to an electrical signal that is amplified, recorded, or broadcast.-...

 designed by Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan is a company that is best known for manufacturing of guitar pickups, and currently has a line of effects pedals. The company was founded in 1976 by guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and his then-wife Cathy Carter Duncan in Goleta, California, USA...

, machine head

Machine head

A machine head is part of a string instrument ranging from guitars to double basses, a geared apparatus for applying tension and thereby tuning a string, usually located at the headstock. A headstock has several machine heads, one per string...

s from Grover and bridges by Wilkinson. The new woods used in the production are also high quality; the search for distinctive tonewoods ranged worldwide, netting woods such as ovangkohl and ebony from Africa, rosewood from India and rock maple from North America.

Samick manufactures a range of stringed instruments under the Greg Bennett label, including electric, acoustic and archtop guitars, electric and acoustic basses, mandolin

Mandolin

A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

s, banjo

Banjo

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

s, ukulele

Ukulele

The ukulele, ; from ; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings....

s and autoharp

Autoharp

The autoharp is a musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers, which, when depressed, mute all of the strings other than those that form the desired chord. Despite its name, the autoharp is not a harp at all, but a chorded zither. -History:There is debate over the...

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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.

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
  Gibson Les Paul
  The Gibson Les Paul was the result of a design collaboration between Gibson Guitar Corporation and the late jazz guitarist and electronics inventor Les Paul. In 1950, with the introduction of the Fender Telecaster to the musical market, electric guitars became a public craze. In reaction, Gibson...
  
   designs (Available in mini version)
• Ultramatic - Double-cutaway, modified PRS
  PRS
  - Computers and telecommunication :* Procedural Reasoning System, an architecture for developing intelligent agents* Premium Rate Service, internationally available telephone-based premium services....
  
   designs
• Torino - Double-cutaway, modified Gibson SG
  Gibson SG
  At the launch of the SG in 1961, Gibson offered four variants of the SG; the SG Junior , the SG Special, the SG Standard, and the top-of-the-line SG Custom. However, Gibson's current core variants as of 2010 are the SG Standard and the SG Special...
  
   designs
• Malibu - Double-cutaway, modified Fender Stratocaster
  Fender Stratocaster
  The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as "Strat", is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares in 1954, and manufactured continuously by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation to the present. It is a double-cutaway guitar, with an extended top...
  
   designs (Available in mini version)
• Concorde - Double-cutaway superstrat designs, only with a stopbar
• Interceptor II - Double-cutaway, modified Ibanez
  Ibanez
  is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce...
  
   RG designs
• Fastback - Single-cutaway MusicMan Axis
  Music Man (company)
  Music Man is an American guitar, and bass guitar manufacturer. It is a division of the Ernie Ball corporation.-Early years:The Music Man story began in 1971 when Forrest White and Tom Walker talked with Leo Fender about starting a company they would call Tri-Sonic, Inc...
  
   design
• Formula - Single-cutaway Fender Telecaster
  Fender Telecaster
  The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele , is typically a dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar made by Fender.Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing and popular music...
  
   designs
• Metalhead - Double-cutaway original design
• Cobra - Double-cutaway Silvertone
  Silvertone (instruments)
  Silvertone was the brand name used by Sears, Roebuck and Company for its line of sound equipment from 1915 to 1972. A hand-cranked phonograph was introduced under the Silvertone brand by Sears in 1915...
  
   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
  Fender Jazz Bass
  The Jazz Bass was the second model of electric bass created by Leo Fender. The bass is distinct from the Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange and treble with less emphasis on the fundamental harmonic...
  
   designs
• Corsair - Modified Fender Precision Bass
  Fender Precision Bass
  The Fender Precision Bass is an electric bass.Designed by Leo Fender as a prototype in 1950 and brought to market in 1951, the Precision was the first electric bass to earn widespread attention and use. A revolutionary instrument for the time, the Precision Bass has made an immeasurable impact on...
  
   designs (Available in mini version)
• Cobra Bass - Modified Silvertone
  Silvertone (instruments)
  Silvertone was the brand name used by Sears, Roebuck and Company for its line of sound equipment from 1915 to 1972. A hand-cranked phonograph was introduced under the Silvertone brand by Sears in 1915...
  
   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

Endorsed artists

• George Jones
  George Jones
  George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
  
  
• Wolf Mail
• Jimmy Adcock
• Tim Roberts
• Mark Stroface'
• Trey Jewell
• The Dustin Burke Band
• The Drew Davis Band
• JoeyJoel

Full artist roster on the Greg Bennett website listed below.