Buck62
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I've heard that Samick also makes Jay Turser guitars, too! 
What the heck... when you're the worlds biggest guitar manufacturer, and you make approximately 60% of the world's guitars, that covers alot of brand names.
Here's a list of the brands I know of that are manufactured by Samick... (there are more that I don't know about, I'm sure)
Samick
Epiphone
Fender (Korean made)
Silvertone
Washburn
Squire
Schecter
Dean
Jay Turser
Dillion
Hamer
Silvertone is owned by Samick, but every other listed brand name is designed by each independent company (Schecter, Dean, Washburn, etc.) and they're jobbed-out to the massive Samick manufacturing facilities. These companies do their own final inspections and decide which guitars hit the stores. So, if there's some crappy Epiphone or Dean guitars hanging on the rack at Guitar Center, you need to play several of them to find the one that plays and sounds "just right" for your needs.
That's the main difference between cheaper and more expensive guitars. As a rule of thumb, you have to play more cheap guitars to find a good one. Expensive guitars have much higher standards at their final point of inspection, so most of them are top-notch when they hit the stores. That's not to say that all of the above listed manufacturers don't have some excellent low-end guitars, because they do! You just have to look a little harder to find the best ones. That's the individual companies fault, not Samick's. It's understandable, though... because you can't turn a profit on cheap guitars if you're rejecting a large protion of them during final inspection.
Yamaha Pacificas and the Samick/Greg Bennett series seem to be an exception to the rule of having to sift through a whole bunch of shit guitars in order to get a good one.
That's all I'm saying.
What the heck... when you're the worlds biggest guitar manufacturer, and you make approximately 60% of the world's guitars, that covers alot of brand names.
Here's a list of the brands I know of that are manufactured by Samick... (there are more that I don't know about, I'm sure)
Samick
Epiphone
Fender (Korean made)
Silvertone
Washburn
Squire
Schecter
Dean
Jay Turser
Dillion
Hamer
Silvertone is owned by Samick, but every other listed brand name is designed by each independent company (Schecter, Dean, Washburn, etc.) and they're jobbed-out to the massive Samick manufacturing facilities. These companies do their own final inspections and decide which guitars hit the stores. So, if there's some crappy Epiphone or Dean guitars hanging on the rack at Guitar Center, you need to play several of them to find the one that plays and sounds "just right" for your needs.
That's the main difference between cheaper and more expensive guitars. As a rule of thumb, you have to play more cheap guitars to find a good one. Expensive guitars have much higher standards at their final point of inspection, so most of them are top-notch when they hit the stores. That's not to say that all of the above listed manufacturers don't have some excellent low-end guitars, because they do! You just have to look a little harder to find the best ones. That's the individual companies fault, not Samick's. It's understandable, though... because you can't turn a profit on cheap guitars if you're rejecting a large protion of them during final inspection.
Yamaha Pacificas and the Samick/Greg Bennett series seem to be an exception to the rule of having to sift through a whole bunch of shit guitars in order to get a good one.
That's all I'm saying.
