1993 Samick SMX1 DS
THE GUITARCHIVE – Excellent condition. Great action. Sounds great. Ready to rock.
The SMX-1 was inspired by the Valley Arts LC custom edition guitar and features a fully bound solid Ash body with a carved arch top, a single cutaway body and recessed heel joint allowing complete access to the fully bound Birds-Eye Maple neck with Ebony fretboard and carved headstock. The SMX1 is powered by Duncan designed HSS pickups and features a recessed Floyd Rose tremolo, pearl dot neck inlays, and gold hardware.
You can demo guitars like this at The Local Pickup guitar showroom in Rock Hill, SC.
Body:
- Solid Ash body with carved top
- 7/8 size body
- Beveled heel
- Belly carve
Neck:
- Bolt-on “Bird’s Eye” Maple neck w/ Scarf joint
- Ebony fretboard with Mother of Pearl dot inlays
- Rounded headstock (Early 1993)
- Valley Arts headstock
- Silk-screened Wave logo (Early 1993)
- Silk-screened Samick/Valley Arts logo
- 24 ArticuFretsTM
- 24.75″ scale
Binding:
- Ivoroid
- Single-ply body and headstock
- Double-ply neck
Electronics:
- Two single coil pickups, one humbucker
- Optional Duncan Design pickups
- 5-way switch
- 1 Vol, 1 Tone
Hardware:
- Gold hardware
- Wide fish shaped truss rod cover
- 16:1 ratio die-cast machine heads
- Knurled metal barrel knobs
- Recessed into body
- “KKT-3” Licensed Floyd Rose locking, 2-point tremolo
- Zero fret locking nut
