Product: Samick Blackbird
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
05/27/2007
at
03:08am
by
tim
Features
:
10
Solid body in black finish with black tuners.
single volume control and three preamp tuners.
all the features you'd want on this style guitar
and comes with a nice hardshell case
Sound
:
10
very clean sound with good tone control
the only thing it could use is a built in tuner
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
very nice action straight out of the box
Reliability/Durability
:
10
so far so good.
I'd definitely use this guitar without feeling a need for a backup
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
never needed it
Overall Rating
:
10
Been playing for 30+ years and have an entire rooom full of gear. Fender, Gibson, Marshall and other goodies.
I'm very partial to Samick as I have a UM-4 thats more than 10 years old, has never had any issues, and plays perfectly. If the Blackbird is half as good I'll be extremely happy with it.
Product: Samick Blackbird
Price Paid: US $129 new
Submitted
03/12/2006
at
06:40pm
by
mg
Features
:
9
Solid body acoustic with hollow cavities in the body. Solid spruce top, grover tuners, L.R. Baggs system for the pickups. Black in color with body and neck binding.
Sound
:
10
When plugged into a p.a. system or through an acoustic amp, very good acoustic sound can be attained. The Baggs system has four small control knobs on front so dialing in sound is easy, you can be more bass and can adjust the treble. Through an electric guitar amp, you can get a good clean semi-acoustic sound, sort of 335ish.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Set up, and finish were top notch. Absolutely no complaints.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
This guitar stays in tune unbelievably. Could definately play it without a backup if necessary.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
I've been playing 15 years and also own an old Epiphone Genesis (excellent guitar), and an epiphone sg special (a real sleeper). I have to add, although the model says blackbird on the truss rod cover, this model is acutally now called the cheyenne. The new blackbirds have black hardware which this one does not. This one was made before they came out with the cheyenne model.
