Product: Samick DW-15 Woods
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
12/02/2007
at
06:00pm
by
Chris
Email: ackychris<at>gmail dot com
Features
:
6
I bought this acoustic used, sight unseen, so I don't really know the specifics. 20 frets; the neck joins the body at the fourteenth. Awesome-looking matte finish, black pickguard...the tuning machines feel kinda flimsy, and the thirteenth fret is too low on the high E string (the string rests on the fourteenth fret, so on the thirteenth, you're playing a half-step too high, and buzzing a bit). Those are about the only downsides, though.
Sound
:
10
This guitar sounds incredible. It sounds nice and mellow, without being muddy. I play a lot of mellow stuff, quite a bit of fingerpicking, and this sounds perfect for most of it. It definitely couldn't be called "bright-sounding", but it sounds far more natural and full to me than most guitars. I went shopping for a new acoustic a year ago, hoping to upgrade, but after playing a couple dozen acoustics, priced from $300 to $2000, I couldn't find one that sounded better than this.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
The action is great, nice and easy. A couple of the tuning pegs are loose, but it might have just happened recently. I mentioned the high E string's thirteenth fret; the other strings/frets have no problems, except that the frets might not be very smoothly filed. I don't know about it much, except that sometimes when I bend a note, the strings feel like they scrape the fret instead of sliding along it.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
I've beat the crap out of this guitar. It fell on the floor once and the back cracked and popped out of the binding in one place. The headstock cracked parallel to the neck and was held on by the fingerboard alone (I think it fell again). I glued the headstock back with Elmer's, and it's once again holding the tension of the strings easily. In short, you can treat this guitar fairly carelessly, take it everywhere with you, bang it up in car trunks, whack it against walls, and you don't have to worry. It's cheap enough you don't have to treat it like glass, and sturdy enough that you'd have to work at it to break it completely.
Customer Support
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No Opinion
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Overall Rating
:
10
It's my first acoustic, and I've only been playing for two years, but they've been two obsessive years. I play a few hours every day, and I play any guitar I'm near enough to touch. This is my favorite, including my brother's Yamaha, my sister's Johnson, and all the one's i've played in music stores and pawnshops since. Great value, great sound,
