Greg Bennett Guitars
Greg Bennett Guitars are produced by
Samick Music Corporation.
After 40 years of producing "budget brand" guitars,
Korean musical instruments manufacturer Samick hired industry veteran Greg Bennett to give their guitar line a radical makeover, with the goal of improving appearance, sound quality, and build quality.
Greg started redesigning the instruments at his studio in
Nashville,
Tennessee, 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 from
Seymour Duncan, machine heads from Grover and bridges by Wilkinson. The new woods used in the production are also high quality; the search for distinctive tonewoods ranged world-wide, netting woods such as ovangkohl and ebony from Africa, rosewood from India and rock maple from North America.
Greg Bennett Guitars manufactures a range of stringed instruments including electric, acoustic and archtop guitars, electric and acoustic basses, and
mandolins,
banjos,
ukuleles and
Autoharps.
Elegant names were given to every line of instruments to stimulate better product identification and also to give a more "high-end" feel. 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.
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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*
Avion - Single-cutaway, modified
Gibson Les Paul designs (Available in mini version)
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Ultramatic - Double-cutaway, modified
PRS designs
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Torino - Double-cutaway, modified
Gibson SG designs
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Mailbu - Double-cutaway, modified
Fender Stratocaster designs (Available in mini version)
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Concorde - Double-cutaway
superstrat designs, only with a stopbar
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Interceptor II - Double-cutaway, modified
Ibanez RG designs
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Fastback - Single-cutaway original designs
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Formula - Single-cutaway
Fender Telecaster designs
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Metalhead - Double-cutaway original design
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Cobra - Double-cutaway
Silvertone Apocalypse design (Available in mini version)
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LaSalle - Single-cutaway
archtops
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Royale - Single-cutaway thinlines
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Fairlane - Modified
Fender Jazz Bass designs
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Corsair - Modified
Fender Precision Bass designs (Available in mini version)
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Cobra Bass - Modified
Silvertone Apocalypse designs
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Royale Bass - Semi-acoustic thinline bass designs
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Tabu Bass - Original design
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Elan Acoustic Bass - Acoustic bass based on their Elan series of acoustic guitars
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Regency Acoustic Bass - Acoustic bass based on their Regency series of acoustic guitars
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Remington Acoustic Bass - Acoustic bass based on their Remington series of acoustic guitars
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