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Post by v4nillakid on Dec 31, 2019 22:28:23 GMT
I've got a 2004 Gibson SG standard. Bought it for $1,000
I've been getting into Harley Benton guitars recently, their "SG" model sounds almost as good as a gibson SG (with a few tweaks).
If I sold my Gibson for $700-800, I could buy the Harley Benton SG +a Harley Benton strat +a Harley Benton acoustic.
3 Good quality (albeit cheap) guitars for selling one Gibson SG. Is this worth it???
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thunderbird
Harley Benton Expert
Less purchase, more practice
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Post by thunderbird on Jan 1, 2020 2:44:58 GMT
I've got a 2004 Gibson SG standard. Bought it for $1,000 I've been getting into Harley Benton guitars recently, their "SG" model sounds almost as good as a gibson SG (with a few tweaks). If I sold my Gibson for $700-800, I could buy the Harley Benton SG +a Harley Benton strat +a Harley Benton acoustic. 3 Good quality (albeit cheap) guitars for selling one Gibson SG. Is this worth it??? If you are an investor/collector, no.
If you only care about playing guitars and want variety, yes, IMO.
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Post by johnnyo on Jan 1, 2020 20:33:05 GMT
Keep the Gibson!!
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Post by k2347 on Jan 1, 2020 21:34:31 GMT
Sell the Gibson and get the 3 HB's......this is a no brainer.I bought 5 Harley Benton's this past year with zero regret's and they are all amazing guitars.
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Post by easyrider on Jan 1, 2020 22:23:04 GMT
Keep the Gibson, get better job and by lot of HB's. Seems to be easy, isn t it?
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Post by tarn on Jan 2, 2020 11:53:34 GMT
going for big brand more expensive guitars is no guarantee for better longevity.
for exemple a have a:
fender MIA custom shop tele early 90'(with the old custom shop logo) vigier exalibur also early 90' and a samick SAM450 from the same period.
the tele has hardly been played, tuners are in desperate need of a change, the pots have long been changed, selector, ...... the vigier had been well played but also will need a change of tuners, pots have been changed more than ones, the original jack broke within the first year. the samick has been extensively played and the tuner still feel as new, pots have never been changed nor anything else for that matter(except string of cours)
as for the finish, they al look like new.
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Post by oghkhood on Jan 3, 2020 18:55:34 GMT
The guitar is only the half of an electric guitar .... what amp(s) do you use to play your SGs in ?
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Post by LeoThunder on Jan 10, 2020 13:32:17 GMT
Sell the Gibson while there are fools to spend money on it ;-)
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Post by LeoThunder on Jan 10, 2020 13:37:47 GMT
Question is a harley benton will last 20/30 years? What could wear out? And even if it does, the Gibson pays for about 4 HB's. Pick-ups don't wear out. Saddles on the bridge are a cheap replacement. Tuners too. The electronics inside are even cheaper. Frets are probably no different than those on the Gibson. I don't think there is anything to worry about.
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Post by ttmax on Jan 10, 2020 15:44:51 GMT
They're different viewpoints. As far as I'm concerned having experienced both the old and the new situation, I see that there is no more reliability in the brand the gibsons and fenders of yeslest time no longer exist and I do not talk about vintage sound (that seems obvious), but of value for money now decidedly unfavorable. But I don't even agree to change a gibson especially if you already own it with four Harley Bentons. As you know initially I was also attracted to this philosophy, but apart from a slight increase in price I found not only a worse construction, but also a sound in the end not comparable to a dqa instrument itsana without modification. Among the various Hbs that I own, perhaps the supereconomic st20 can be justified by those who then change almost everything but only as a hobby. For e.g. a st-62 to have a sound comparable to a squier cv you have to spend on the same money that separate the price of his strat, but then the question is worth realizing I have this hobby or instead of making the luthier I prefer just to play it ? In any case it is this is always a personal opinion something good there is still in the Hb, but as far as I'm concerned we are just right to the limit and are the cst series if maybe you accept the pickups (common to cst,custom and cs) practically always the same rise but in different guise. On the other hand, I would never buy the fusion series at their price. Don't tell me your ibanez sound like hb, because I don't believe it. Excuse the outburst.
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Post by LeoThunder on Jan 10, 2020 16:04:37 GMT
They're different viewpoints. As far as I'm concerned having experienced both the old and the new situation, I see that there is no more reliability in the brand the gibsons and fenders of yeslest time no longer exist and I do not talk about vintage sound (that seems obvious), but of value for money now decidedly unfavorable. Value for money is the whole point. The Gibson name allows inflated prices and equivalent quality can be purchased for much less under different brands. Some think the Gibson name will retain its value but it has been flooding the world for decades and the variations in quality people complain about come from the pressure to keep numbers up. The world is full of Gibsons, mostly owned by aging people who revere symbols of their youth. When this generation starts dying, their toys will be everywhere at prices no one wants to think of today. This is why I would sell any non explicitly collectible Gibson while there are still buyers. They are a terrible investment.
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Post by johnnyo on Jan 10, 2020 18:59:39 GMT
When i started to discover Harley Benton some years ago, I was totally stunned by the value for money. Up to that point i bought an Epiphone SG Special II which was trash, a Fender Stratocaster which i didn´t like the thin sound, a 2015 Gibson Les Paul Traditional (which sounded horribly muddy). I sold all the stuff. Then i bought a TE-70 BP which was very good, but i wanted to go back to Humbuckers because my Amp didn´t have much overdrive and i didn´t like pedals. After that i bought and sold many HBs and at one point, started hoarding them and dreamt about owning every single model of the brand. I think many of you guys here share similar histories with guitars. I realized that most people here and HB owners in general are not poor people who struggle to save up for one 150 €-Guitar. Most are passionate players who love the idea that nowadays you can get good instruments for as little as 150 € and that way you can try every shape, color and konfiguration without ending up broke.
After some purchases i realized that i had only two hands and a maximum of 60 minutes a day to spend with my guitars. For me owning 30 mediocre guitars didn´t make any sense anymore. After selling several HBs and saving i bought my dream guitar (a R8 with Kloppmann 59 pickups, later a Maybach Lester joined) and only kept 2 HBs (HB-35 and Sc-Custom P90) which i leave laying around the apartment for me and my children to play with them.
But when i have got time and sit down to enjoy playing guitar after work and after bringing the children to bed, i grab the Gibson 99% of the time. Why? Because it feels good, it smells good and it sounds fantastic. It sounds way better than any HB (the difference is greater than this forum suggests sometimes). Its value for money is definately a lot worse, but i don´t care because in reality it is not about value for money for most people from europe or comparable regions, it is only about the question: What sparks more joy for me: one fantastic instrument or dozens of mediocre instruments. For me the first and that is why my personal advice is "Keep the Gibson" (and buy a HB additionally, which you can sell and try the next HB). Of course you guys might have a different opion on the subject.
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