Product: Samick Artist Series Les Paul 12-string
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
08/17/2006
at
04:18pm
by
JazzFusionGuy
Email: trogotagel<at>yahoo dot com
Features
:
No Opinion
See above too . . . 22 frets, Tune-O-Matic, Rosewood fretboard, H/H pups, 4 vol/tone knos , 3-way pup switch, stock pups, passive, Mahogany body and neck w/cherry sunburst top, set neck
Sound
:
10
Played through a Marshall before buying, See Overall Rating too.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Purchased used @ Guitar Center
Reliability/Durability
:
9
See below
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Just purchased, Samick is reputed to have good cust. service and helpful with info seeeking on their models.
Overall Rating
:
10
Been playing since 1967 . . .
I run www.JazzRock-Radio.com
Samick Artist Series Les Paul 12-string infodump:
Imagine jamming on a '59 Les Paul but with octaved-harmonics happening on every note via this 12-string's design. This baby is so well made and string placement so well thought out that it is nothing like playing an acoustic 12-string in the fret play. I can't detect even any neck-width difference from a 6-string Les Paul. Great tone, low action, no buzz, high quality binding and workmanship EVERYWHERE. Absolutely fun to play -- this is a unique axe -- looks beautiful as well. She offers a very jazzy feel when playing clean riffs and a wall of sound when riffing in overdrive crunch. Awesome! Only drawback some may have with this axe is that is is VERY heavy but -- hello -- so comes forth the tone and sustain as well.
This guitar model was designed to each specification of the original 1959 Les Paul. The Epiphone ENL-4 is nearly identical to this Samick LP-12. The body is 2-piece mahogany with solid maple cherry sunburst finish top. It also boasts a mahogany, one-piece, set neck. Tuners, adjustable bridge & controls are all high quality and drip high-end, classic Les Paul all over the place. This guitar is out of production, Samick's Korean factory closed, and therefore very collectible.
Never mind any of that uninformed "It's a Korean-made LP and not USA with Gibson on the headstock" brand-name, snob-snub jive. If it looks & is built awesome, plays and sounds great, and hasn't fallen apart after a decade of use -- who cares what people say? Just smile and jam on. Samick is the largest guitar-manufacturer in the world and now owned by Gibson.
