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The Samick Club
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I do some woodworking. Wood can move around a bit, especially after you cut it. There are stresses in there and you can make it a perfect rectangular form and cut it again, especially if you are cutting with the grain and those two pieces can relax a bit over time and get a twist. This is why planers exist as a woodworking tool. It allows you to sneak back up on making a piece truly flat after cutting it. Guitar bodies being a carved piece with few flats, the techniques used are different.
The wood has to be dried to a certain extent and that can differ as far as what one considers acceptable. Samick makes a LOT of instruments and perhaps are using wood that is not dried to the same level as some other manufacturers
I think your horn moved after shaping. If the guitar plays well, the neck still lines up and it doesn't bother you, I'd live with it. It seems perhaps more ergonomic than if it had shifted the other direction. (I'm rounder than I used to be .... LOL).
The wood has to be dried to a certain extent and that can differ as far as what one considers acceptable. Samick makes a LOT of instruments and perhaps are using wood that is not dried to the same level as some other manufacturers
I think your horn moved after shaping. If the guitar plays well, the neck still lines up and it doesn't bother you, I'd live with it. It seems perhaps more ergonomic than if it had shifted the other direction. (I'm rounder than I used to be .... LOL).
I've been looking for one for several years. Finally found a fretless 5 string, love it. Still looking for a 4 string. Haven't been made for over 20 years.
I have 4 other Samick basses and 4 guitars. I prefer the made in Korea era but they are all very good guitars/basses.
Happy hunting.
Remember, between Cort and Samick, these two companies make more basses than the other major manufactures combined. Why, because they make so many basses under contract for the major manufacturers. Not just bottom entry level either.
Love my Samick. Lightest bass I've owned. "Ring like a bell, go on like a gong." Plus a splatter and smudge paint job that is pure 90s paisley. Used to be so proud of my awesome sounding cheap bass. I admit the EMGs might have helped.
Played it for years till the 5 got the top spot. Lent it to a mate who thought he wanted to learn. While he had it he got burgled. They took EVERYTHING. Except my Samick. Try that with your vintage Fender.
Played it for years till the 5 got the top spot. Lent it to a mate who thought he wanted to learn. While he had it he got burgled. They took EVERYTHING. Except my Samick. Try that with your vintage Fender.
I will mirror the lightest bass comment. I thought my Ibanez SR500F (fretless) was light, but pretty sure my Samick I just picked up (shown a few posts back) is lighter. Crazy story about the burglary, 100% if it was a Fender or any other recognizable brand it would have been long gone.
I have the 5 string version of that bass (SDB5569) mine is 10.4lbs (including strap). Plays great. I am in the process of putting new pickups and preamp in as the person who had it prior "fixed" the preamp one too many times. Using EMG 40hz in it and an artec BE2 preamp. Hoping it will sound as good if not better. The original electronics were so hot would clip easily.
Yeah it doesn’t bother me, was more just curious if it was a design choice or something happened to it. I’m also rounder than I used to be and is perhaps a bit more ergonomic the way it is haha.
Hah, my car is a 1996. Just fun to think of "where was I" that year. I bought my Samick in probably about 2010 or just before.
I think I can join the Samick club with this object:
I couldn't help myself when I saw this lightweight neck-through beauty in the ads. It was listed as a Cane/Samick build. I couldn't find much info online, except for this post, which shows a similar model, this post by @AsturHero, this post by @SamickPlayer, and this ad. That intrigued me and I decided to go and check it out (even though the drive was quite far, for local standards). The price was right, the seller was nice and the bass was in a very good, very playable shape (despite its 'eighties' (according to the seller) origin). It ... well... just made sense.
The logo on the headstock doesn't match with the other examples (and it has nothing written on the backside either), and the mixture of control knobs is a bit odd. But it is a quality instrument, so much I can tell. It plays very easily and it sounds excellent. Quite 'organic', I'd say, for an active bass. And it 'wears' very comfortably. I like it a lot.
Cane, according to the last source listed above, was a 'brand of a German trader in the nineties, who had their guitars build by Samick in Korea'. I wonder if anyone has more background info.
I couldn't help myself when I saw this lightweight neck-through beauty in the ads. It was listed as a Cane/Samick build. I couldn't find much info online, except for this post, which shows a similar model, this post by @AsturHero, this post by @SamickPlayer, and this ad. That intrigued me and I decided to go and check it out (even though the drive was quite far, for local standards). The price was right, the seller was nice and the bass was in a very good, very playable shape (despite its 'eighties' (according to the seller) origin). It ... well... just made sense.
The logo on the headstock doesn't match with the other examples (and it has nothing written on the backside either), and the mixture of control knobs is a bit odd. But it is a quality instrument, so much I can tell. It plays very easily and it sounds excellent. Quite 'organic', I'd say, for an active bass. And it 'wears' very comfortably. I like it a lot.
Cane, according to the last source listed above, was a 'brand of a German trader in the nineties, who had their guitars build by Samick in Korea'. I wonder if anyone has more background info.
I’d like to join the club with my 1997 lefty SPM-1.
I just had it ‘revised’ because it’s been my trusty bass for years until I fell in love with a Hofner violin bass. That one can’t keep up with what my band demands, though.
Reason I didn’t just look for a new bass is that this one has been solid for 28 years, so something must be very right about it. Also: j-bass sized neck width on a p-bass. Also: I found that it was probably some ‘high end’ model back then (Samick wiki). Also: mojo.
So, I had the SPM-1 set up, also had the nut lowered, put new GHS flats on it, new cts pots and switchcraft jack, and had the pickup replaced by something called Tonedriver (not Toneriders).
I just had it ‘revised’ because it’s been my trusty bass for years until I fell in love with a Hofner violin bass. That one can’t keep up with what my band demands, though.
Reason I didn’t just look for a new bass is that this one has been solid for 28 years, so something must be very right about it. Also: j-bass sized neck width on a p-bass. Also: I found that it was probably some ‘high end’ model back then (Samick wiki). Also: mojo.
So, I had the SPM-1 set up, also had the nut lowered, put new GHS flats on it, new cts pots and switchcraft jack, and had the pickup replaced by something called Tonedriver (not Toneriders).
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Hey Guys! do have more information about this bass? I bought it a few years ago
this is my first samick and GOOD GOD I AM IN LOVE first 6 er and first neck through this thing was 800 back in 94 and now in todays money that is 2K and i stole it from a pawn shop for $300 i'm not finding pickup blend knob on this guy anyone know the knob layout on these guys the spec sheet says 1 vol 2 tones and a prescience
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Sweet. I'd have grabbed that too if I'd come across it myself.
rigghhhttt and ppl say samick sucks.. NOT THIS ONE i wrote this the other day and its lower gain take
