How much is a Samick guitar worth model number SF 35HS?

Answer 1

I have one of these Guitars that has been in and out of my hands for a few years now. I sold it to pay some bills a few years ago for $300. It has recently come back into my possession and I showed it to a friend who had been a Samick dealer. He remembered it, and thought it was $500-600 when new. Since a used musical item (used, not 'vintage') will generally sell for about half what a new one sells for, I consider $300 with a clean hardshell case to be a fair price. If I saw another for more or less the same price, I'd probably buy it. This is a great instrument from a very large manufacturer and represents excellent bang for the buck, often at a bargain price since Samick, while selling some guitars under their own brand, and their designer Greg Bennett's name, makes a large number of 'underbrands' for other major brands and is not particularly well known compared to majors like Fender, Martin, and Gibson. They cerainly do make some inexpensive student guitars, but this one has a solid top, herringbone bindng and soundhole trim and appears to have rosewood sides and back.