Samick HF650 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar

Samick selects only their best maple and spruce, the most dramatic quilts, only superior grade-straight grain maple for the necks, and of course, only Samick?s best luthiers design and build the jazzboxes.

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15 People rated this product : * * * * * * * * * * 8 out of 10

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* * * * * * * * * * 9 out of 10

"Nada que envidiar a Gibson"

Feature:
Si no fuera por las clavijas (aprecen buenas pero no duran mucho) le pondr

Submitted: 4/25/2006

Style of Music: blues

* * * * * * * * * * 9 out of 10

"Outsanding fit and finish, Incredible value."

Feature:
Features? Comes stock with a neck, strings, pickups, pick guard, frets, front, top and sides. Also a headpiece and tailpiece. The controls also have knobs. All standard equipment!!

Quality:
Is there an 11? Outstanding. Couldn't ask for a more beautifully made instrument. A Price tag of $5000 with a USA-made label would not seem unreasonable.

Value:
Another 11. These Koreans really know how to make a fine instrument. Hell, they make more than anyone else on earth. Samick makes Epiphones, Washburns, and countless other brands, If it says "made in Korea", it is 90% certain it was made by Samick.

Desirability:
Unfortunately, despite all its great attributes, this is not a guitar to feed the ego. It is attracive and wonderful to play, but if you want "sex appeal", you'll have to break the piggy bank and blow some serious bread on something like a Gibson L5. You won't find this guitar on the cover of any jazz albums though it certainly deserves this distinction. A superb but modest instrument.

Sound:
Not bad out of the box. With a Bill Lawrence L-500 replacement pickup - an easy drop-in retrofit in the neck position, the sound becomes outstanding. Acoustically, it's a bit thin for a jazz archtop but not bad. Best with nice fat strings. Anything less than 13's, the sound is gone. Try Thomastic Infeld Be-Bops.

Support:
I needed to replace a pickup ring (my bad). Called them, and they sent me one free. I had it in three days.

Overall:
Has everything going for it except panache. and that doesn't bother me. I wasn't 100% thrilled with the pickups but they may be just fine for someone else. I like a little more highs. (The old Gretsch Filter-Trons are my favorites,)

Submitted: 2/15/2004

Style of Music: Pop, commercial, jazz style, Chet Atkins style,

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Samick HF650 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar
Samick builds jazz guitars for some of the biggest names in the business and they are very good instruments indeed but when Samick builds jazz guitars for the Samick brand, they pull out all the stops. Samick selects only their best maple and spruce, the most dramatic quilts, only superior grade-straight grain maple for the necks, and of course, only Samick's best luthiers design and build the jazzboxes. Finally you can get the guitar you always wanted but could never afford because we are proud to offer this exclusive selection of Samick's best jazz guitars at the lowest prices ever.

HF650 Classic Series - 175 style maple body with 16 in. bout, Venetian cutaway, maple neck, rosewood fretboard with block inlays, 22-fret, 24-3/4 in. scale, bound body, neck, headstock and F-holes, gold hardware, trapeze tailpiece with adjustable wood bridge, die-cast tuners, 2 custom designed humbuckers, 2 volume and 2 tone controls.
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