So my harley Benton ST-62 in vintage white arrived yesterday. A lovely not-valentines gift from the wife.
Cost of guitar (B-stock) was £60 but free to me!! I also got €50 of thomann vouchers for writing some nice long reviews.
The planned mods were:
Locking strap-locks £10
locking tuners £29
new saddles £42
new pickups £60 (amazingly)
new wiring £20
add tone control for bridge pickup (free)
add the super seven wiring (with SPST switch) £2
New scratchplate £15
Here are the stock before pictures as in my excitement i forgot to take any of the actual guitar.
So out of the box the guitar played ok, it sounded pretty good, was a bit noisy butter the money i don't think you can really complain...... apart from the fingerboard and frets.
Never have I seen a more disgusting piece of wood on a guitar. It looked like someone with dead fingers had rotted all over it. The frets were dull and gritty. The nut was cut nicely though.
The bridge is the cheapest nastiest thing I've ever seen, i really want to replace it, if only to get the block (made of spit and toothpaste) out of this guitar.
The reason it was a B-stock was due to the scratch plate. the tortoiseshell layer had delaminated form the white plastic and a corner of it had snapped off. I thought that this wouldn't matter as i was going to replace it anyway- luckily i didn't snap the thing though.
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it does! Not too radical from a mod perspective but I'm very happy with the sounds
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