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Post by jayjacque on Jun 12, 2019 12:44:16 GMT
Woke up this morning and just thought I'd spread some Harley Benton love. With my latest 2 guitar order, it brings me up to something like 13 I've ordered thru Thomann (as well as bunch of gigbags and various accessories. Don't know why exactly, but for this order I'm the most excited I've been in a long time. Maybe it's because I'm getting back 2 guitars I once had and regret selling them,an SC-450plus VB and a CLD-15M acoustic, howbeit the SC-450plus replaces an SC-550 I sold for cheap to a kid in my church a couple years ago (technically don't regret that). Anyway, I'm 68, been playing for 55 years now. Up until the last 10 years or so, never thought I would be able to own more than 1, 2 or at the most 3 guitars. Now usually have 8 to 10 at any given time, all but 1 or 2 of them Harley Bentons. And I find a way to play them all. Ever once in awhile you read somebody's post who had a bad experience, which can happen, or they expect HB's to be just as good as high end name brands, so they're disappointed. But that hasn't been my experience. I've had to tweak a few guitars to get them more playable, maybe more than a few (but that's part of the fun) and felt I had to change out pickups a time or two, but overall no big deal and still totally worth it.
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Post by micoli on Jun 15, 2019 14:02:25 GMT
Hi jayjacque,
I absolutely agree with you. I'm 67 and although I have often had a guitar in the house over the years, I've only in the last 3-4 years taken more seriously. I find HB guitars are great for trying new guitar types without a large financial outlay. If it wasn't for HB I would never have found my love of hollow and semi-hollow guitars. I currently have 3 HB acoustics, 6 HB electrics and 2 other brand electrics. My SC-550 rarely gets played but all the others do.
While it must be disappointing to receive a bad guitar, my experience has been mostly positive. I've also had to tweak most of them to some degree, I've changed the pick-ups and electrics, got rid of fret buzz, replaced nuts and saddles with bone versions, but generally I've been very pleased with them and anyway, fixing them up is my way of personalising them and I've learnt a lot.
By the way, I was just looking at the CLD-15M acoustic as it might be my next acquisition. I wish HB would produce an affordable gypsy jazz acoustic as I'm just getting into that style.
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Post by trb on Jun 19, 2019 9:16:43 GMT
these HB are for me really good bases for modding. AS soos as the neck is not bad (not too much fret buzz that can't be fixed), the global "lutherie" is good enought to add nice PUs for example with CTS pot and wiring.
I have low cost but great PUs (Tonerider, Irongear) and more expensive Seymour or Railhammer, and I love all my HB from the cheapest (JA60) to the more expensive Fusion II pro Roasted neck.
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