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Harley Benton Guitar Opinions
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06-04-2015 10:29pm#1
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OK so the Postman dropped off the guitar at 8.30 this morning
Ive the week off so had the whole morning to my self with it , Kids still asleep so cant plug it in yet
On opening the box I was greeted with a nice amber glow , took it out of the white wrapping & was greeted by a beautiful maple cap
Flipped it over and could see a visible 2 piece back ,Checked the endgrain to see if there were more pieces but no Its a two piece
While looking I saw a good sized crack in the lacquer,it looked like the guitar was banged or dropped while the paint was drying started looking around for more flaws and found a filled indent in the rosewood fretboard
Not overly impressed I start to play , frets unpolished & rosewood bone dry so I rip off the strings, give the frets a good polishing with T cut and then a good soaking of lemon oil .
While Im waiting for the lemon oil I took out the neck pickup to see if there was a long neck tenon and to my surprise there is and a 20mm solid maple cap, the mahogany looks good quality as well ,no shielding though
I opened the bridge cavity and the pickup looks different to the neck pickup and older, both pickups are coil tappable btw.
I opened up the other two cavities on the back , the pots are the really cheap chinese crap and the switch feels really flimsy
The tuners look the part and seem ok , time will tell
I've just finished stringing her back up ,Top wrap of course & shes looking good , there is a cream pickguard with it but its quite cheap looking
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Im very happy with it, it plays and feels like a much more expensive guitar the pickups are very nice and have no plans to change them even though I originally had planned to
Its had new pots and caps fitted and fully shielded, a headstock reshape as I couldn't stand the original the and I've lightened the finish a bit
It probably could do with a set of tuners, the originals are ok though
It reminds me very much of an Edwards I had a few years ago and that says a lot for it
Ive owned well over 20 Les pauls over the years of every make and price and even though its the cheapest one its certainly nowhere near the bottom of the pile
The foundations are there to turn these into a great guitar, good quality wood and a good neck, once you have these you can improve everything else
Im actually thinking of getting the goldtop with P90s next
Have you decided on the CST 24 yet
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wild turkey wrote: »Im very happy with it, it plays and feels like a much more expensive guitar the pickups are very nice and have no plans to change them even though I originally had planned to
Its had new pots and caps fitted and fully shielded, a headstock reshape as I couldn't stand the original the and I've lightened the finish a bit
It probably could do with a set of tuners, the originals are ok though
It reminds me very much of an Edwards I had a few years ago and that says a lot for it
Ive owned well over 20 Les pauls over the years of every make and price and even though its the cheapest one its certainly nowhere near the bottom of the pile
The foundations are there to turn these into a great guitar, good quality wood and a good neck, once you have these you can improve everything else
Im actually thinking of getting the goldtop with P90s next
Have you decided on the CST 24 yet
I am pretty set on it. I just don't like being the first to try with no reviews. I'm not in a hurry. Going to wait a couple more weeks. Then unless there is a horrible review posted I'll make the purchase.0 -
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