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Post by alexx on Dec 11, 2019 17:16:34 GMT
Hi HB people, got a 3rd HB guitar, now a LP model, red burst, but with a BOLT-ON neck. The neck is surprisingly thin / slim, a D shape (I compare it to this massive chunky HB-35 piece of wood..). No engraving or any marks / name on the pick-up's. There is no logo on the headstock, just Harley Benton name, classic HB tuners (metal/silver colour). Anyone an idea what model is it ? Previous owner said that he got this guitar about 8-9 years ago. Thanx a link to pictures: postimg.cc/gallery/p779vjmm/
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Post by LeoThunder on Dec 16, 2019 11:05:14 GMT
There used to be an L-400 looking very much like this but it had a set neck. Maybe an earlier variant of it was different. The position of the bridge volume knob is different too.
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Post by alexx on Dec 20, 2019 11:57:28 GMT
Thanx for the reply and info,
as I found till now it's a 'L-400 SC' model.
Quite good hardware but assemblage is just horrible,
Missaligned everywhere where possible, not only at those pots.
Took the neck out, blanked 4 screw holes and relocating them - well, somewhere in the center of course.
Very good sustain for a bolt-on neck.
Body feels as a hard wood, kind of a Salmon-ish colour.
Also sth odd: neck PU ~9,5 Ohm, bridge PU ~10,5 Ohm. I would expect the bridge one to be hotter.
Al together, a nice project guitar, ruined in the factory and not by a user: as very often with cheap copies: just standing in a room as a decoration.
Cheers
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Post by LeoThunder on Dec 20, 2019 12:17:11 GMT
Thanx for the reply and info, as I found till now it's a 'L-400 SC' model. Quite good hardware but assemblage is just horrible, Missaligned everywhere where possible, not only at those pots. I don't know when Harley Benton got an upgrade in quality. By November 2014, Henning (EytschPi42) was giving them the first good reviews. Here's his first of an SC model, which was the L-450 Plus at the time, with set neck: He said a few times they used to be terrible "before", never saying when "before" ceased to be. I have two from earlier days, somewhere around 2005. One is excellent (a B-5000), the other, a B-400FL, was a bit of a joke with non-sensical wiring, a neck that needed a shim and a nut cut for a fretted bass but on a fretless one. All three things were easy to fix, so I still have it.
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Post by alexx on Dec 28, 2019 18:53:49 GMT
well, got this guitar playable again. Quite nice piece of wood, lacquer and electronics. It was a splendid amateur-luthier project. Need to fix back-to-order strap buttons that are misplaced, bent screws, damage on the body ... I'll post later 'funny' pics of these flaws. No remorse / no repent .. Cheers
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