Spent yesterday doing setup's on Harley Benton's.

[Duncanpup]

A ramble been up since 03:45 can’t sleep.

The high school music teacher had a budget I pointed her to H.B. Guitars for her students in class and she picked up six guitars they arrived Thursday. I do not own any H.B. I have worked on and then played them actually two before yesterday a strat and then their tele rosewood model it’s all veneer the tele but for $150 sure.

So eighteen went picked up the guitars and the teacher and we went to work on them, in buying she was able to purchase H.B. one tele it’s a copy of their 52 , then four Stratocaster model 62 models these model guitars the tele and Stratocasters are all basswood body ,and then she also purchased a H.B.450 single cut. Not one guitar over $270 in price she scored I told her, and I was impressed with the 450 Les Paul model mahogany and a cool maple top that made me wonder for the price.

I weighed the tail piece of the 450 on my scale and I think it’s aluminum and I’m looking under neck humbucker it is sporting a long neck tenon. I know neck tenon apples and oranges I can’t tell the difference when playing a Les with or without, yet my tokai reborn has long tenon.

So yesterday we did the setups new strings I even replaced and added new bone nut for one of the strat copies because she has two students that are left handed and switched it around. I even replaced the one jack on the one strat yet everything else is all stock looking at the pots I’m not sure what the stamps are, yet for kids to play practice it is a awesome haul for them.

I’ve never been a guitar snob I could care what name is on the headstock let’s just play and explore the fretboard and have fun. I personally am a MIJ collector discovered made in Japan guitars as kid in army in West Germany when I was stationed there.

Today the bubble has burst as in we have many choices as home players. Regardless if it’s made in Korea or Indonesia yes we have to be careful about some guitars from the eastern world in not so great in quality ,yet you can find a decent guitar even then do upgrades and you’re still ahead in saving dollars and you have a player.

The music teacher even has quite a few dollars left in her budget and now looking at amps. They have several solid state amps yet she wants to purchase a few more. With the cash she has left I was letting her listen to these one watt black stars tube amps we have for home also we use one watt Marshall’s that’s all we need for the house perhaps we could find used black stars and Marshall one watts on reverb.com.

[2naSalit]

1. Cool beans!

She got quite a haul for the cash! It's great that you connected, you have a great wealth of knowledge to share with these people at school, it's good of you to help. Having that resource in some artistic media kids can relate to is massive. Art and music classes were the only thing that kept me going to school as long as I did go. When the arts got cut, I had no interest, or parents to help me get through it.

I just got a bunch of gear from a place that might be of interest to you if you haven't heard of them yet. Sweetwater was recommended to me by professional musicians who also record, three of them in my county told me about this place individually. They are always having sales and they have everything, including a used gear marketplace. I think they have deals for schools, worth looking at just in case, if you haven't already. They're in FT Wayne, IN.

[Duncanpup]

2. Sweet water and ZZ sounds shopped both thanks

[2naSalit]

3. I figured...

You probably had, you are far deeper into the "know" than I. Glad the deals the teacher got were as good as she did get.

I don't play any instruments well enough to pass an audition but I try. I just bought a piano/arranger with recording software and mixer so I can collaborate with my pals that I jam with. I got it all at SW for a good price, just finished setting up the software and mixer yesterday. Now I have something to do.

Have fun with music school!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. I have an HB, it's the Tele style w/the Filtertron-looking/sounding pups

It's decent-playing and sounding, and pretty versatile, could use some setup though.

[Duncanpup]

5. I like the tone of fullertons Hugh

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Seems Like Too Much Work

I question their quality control if that much work was needed on brand new guitars. And, the sales source.
I get the need to flip the nut for lefties, but setups on brand new guitars.
That concerns me as it relates to overall quality. I've never done more than adjust the action on a new guitar, and that's a matter of preference. I had on that had the action lower than i like, and one a little higher than i like. But, that isn't a quality issue. It's just taste.

[Duncanpup]

7. Restrung then intonation

For the high school guitar class more to my preference on action on guitar.

[Duncanpup]

8. And for the price for a guitar class

These H.B. are decent GAC for a music class.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. No Doubt

Not going to buy custom shop PRS for that need.
I'd still expect intonation to be good out of the factory though. I've never needed to intone a guitar unless it was 3 years old or more.
But for that price, if they play well that's a win.

[Iggo]

10. Harley Benton's okay in my book.

I got my 2x12 cab from them, with (2) Celestion Vintage 30’s, delivered from Germany to California, for less than the price of two loose V30’s by themselves.

That works for me.