Great Looking Offset for just £97 !!!!

Alnico

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hb_ja_60sb_vintage_serie.htm

Even if you had a professional fret levelling and dress job done it's still bloody cheap and looks great.

RaymondLin

That is insane price for a guitar. 

Alnico

RaymondLin said:

That is insane price for a guitar. 

Even with £40 for a couple of decent pots, a switch and an output jack it's nowhere near expensive.

I really like it a lot.

RaymondLin

Alnico said:

RaymondLin said:

That is insane price for a guitar. 

Even with £40 for a couple of decent pots, a switch and an output jack it's nowhere near expensive.

I really like it a lot.

I am still gobsmack how cheap that is, I spent more on bloody patch cables and plugs!

Strat_a_tat_tat

RaymondLin said:

I am still gobsmack how cheap that is, I spent more on bloody patch cables and plugs!

Yeah... but wipe the blood off them and you'll have some nice cables and plugs.

Alnico

I've been looking as closely as i can at the neck and general construction and it looks good. 

The lack of a tremolo means it can be made stable and for general use as a jangly pop or a grungy rock machine it is unbelievable value.

I can see one of these appearing at Alnico Towers sometime this year.

chrisj1602

And there's this one for £90

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_ms_60_vintage_white.htm?sid=fc39924ff93b00f927965e756d6bf811

underdog

You can also have a 335 type, or an explorer for about the same. Tempted by the explorer.

Alnico

chrisj1602 said:

And there's this one for £90

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_ms_60_vintage_white.htm?sid=fc39924ff93b00f927965e756d6bf811

I saw that too and it's a nice looking thing, especially in that colour but i thought that maybe the cheap parts used in the Tremolo might cause problems. What drew me to the first one is that there is no tremolo and less to go wrong.

Alnico

underdog said:

You can also have a 335 type, or an explorer for about the same. Tempted by the explorer.

That explorer is a set neck isn't it?

That being the case it's just a mission to replace cheap hardware and there's a great guitar for buttons !

EDIT: Yes it is a set neck..............

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_ex76_bk_classic_series.htm

Bucket

Oh god it's got a tune-o-matic, how awful.

underdog

Alnico;479254" said:

underdog said:

You can also have a 335 type, or an explorer for about the same. Tempted by the explorer.





That explorer is a set neck isn't it?

That being the case it's just a mission to replace cheap hardware and there's a great guitar for buttons !

EDIT: Yes it is a set neck..............http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_ex76_bk_classic_series.htm

Yeah set neck, basewood body, should be a decent guitar, I think I'm going to buy one at the end of the month, and order some pickups ready to swap them straight out.

Lixarto

I like this one:

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_ex_84_white_progressive_serie.htm

DesVegas

Do we know how much the posting to the UK is?

breakstuff

£10 as far as I'm aware.

underdog

Shipping is €10, free on orders over €199, so may as well buy 2 guitars to save on shipping

meltedbuzzbox

Bucket said:

Oh god it's got a tune-o-matic, how awful.

how does Donkey dick taste? :-P

TTony

breakstuff said:

£10 as far as I'm aware.

Correct - or free if you spend more than 199 Euros, so buy 2 and get free shipping!

samzadgan

that Jag is perfect...it ticks all the boxes for me...one thing that puts me off fender jags (that i can afford) is the dot inlays and no binding...this one looks perfect...

someone needs to buy it and see if it plays well.

I'm sure with some good electronics it can sound pretty damn good, as long as it feels good to play.

hobbio

That offset in the OP looks a lot like my 90% complete offset project.

Hertz32

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_cst_24tol_tobacco_sunburst.htm
It's their semi-hollow PRS copy that gets me going