Fusion And Jazz Guitars Designed By Masters, Made For You And Me
Many of the best name brand guitars are actually made in Korea by just one company – Samick.
During the past 20 years or thereabouts they have fashioned their guitar making capability to the stage where they are able to create luthier grade guitars for name brands as well as more consumer style electric guitars under their company name.
One particular range of luthier quality electric guitars being manufactured in Korea are the Greg Bennett range of guitars.
The Samick Royale RL3 made for Greg Bennett guitars, is a good-looking semi hollow body guitar, that has a high quality finish, extremely good electronics and great tuners. It is classed as a fusion form of electric guitar that generally means it could be utilized for Jazz, Blues or a combination of these styles.
Another design crafted using the Bennett trademark is the Greg Bennett LaSalle JZ2 made by Samick. This is more of a Jazz targeted electric guitar – sizeable hollowbody electric guitar with a lot of subtlety about it. Just as before this guitar possesses wonderful tuners and electrics, and additionally the finish of this electric guitar is also utterly brilliant. With regard to Jazz you are looking for a more mellow tone – something akin to an acoustic guitar yet amplified. Jazz electric guitars normally have thicker strings on them because jazz musicians don’t often make use of string bending methods that are popular among blues or rock guitar players. Another typical plan is to use flat wound strings for Jazz together with a rosewood bridge. Flat wound strings, or “flats” as they are frequently known, are very, very smooth and you get very little string noise whilst changing chords or moving from one position on the guitar neck to another.
Another luthier quality fusion guitar is the Samick made Greg Bennett Royale RL4 – in the very same family as the RL3 however with upgraded gold components – tuners, volume and tone switches, pickup covers, and tailpiece. Just as before a wonderful surface to this electric guitar and moreover a true joy to play.
These kind of electric guitars are testament to the inescapable fact that with today’s guitar production methods it is not so much which company produces the guitar now, but who is prepared to lend their label on to the finished product.
The quality of these guitars is so good that major guitar creators are comfortable enough to style and design great products and yet make them readily available for guitar slaves all across the globe at decent pricing.
