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STEER CLEAR IN THE US
In fairness, this is a great guitar for $150 or whatever. However, as the headline says, stay away in the U. S. A. I now own 5 Harley Bentons. The first 2 came in mostly without a hitch (one had a lousy nut, but for $250 everything else was very good). The particular model that I am rating here came in my second haul and it is actually a pretty decent instrument. The volume knob is cheap and falling apart, but that's a really easy fix and or cheap repair making $280 (purchase + shipping + repair) a very good deal for this.
With that said, I got a Fusion 3 w a floyd (a super strat) along side of this guitar. It had some MAJOR fret issues and the high B/E strings were unplayable. In order to make an exchange, I would have had to have shipped back to Germany, and the cheapest option was in excess of $400 which is as much as I paid for it. My other option was to take it to a luthier and have them do a $500 refret (it came with stainless.) Since I didn't want to do either, I removed the neck and found that the frets were both unseated (there was a gap between most of the frets and the fret board), and many of the fret slots were cut way too wide. So, my options were between paying $400 to send it back, paying $500 to have it refret professionally, or pay $400 for the tools to do the repair myself along with 15-20 hours of elbow grease.
Thomann sucks. While they do in fact provide an excellent bargain, you will have a blemish or two (of the 5 I've owned, only one came in perfect shape and it was the most expensive HB coming in at $600 shipped.) You are simply rolling the dice as to how much the repairs will cost you. I have since bought 2 EARTs from Amazon. They're both flawless and can very easily be exchanged if there is an issue. The tele is just short of $300, which is maybe an extra $80 after you have this thing shipped. I HIGHLY recommend getting an EART to a Harley Benton. They're a much better instrument for roughly the same price and you don't have to deal with the worst music company in the world.
With that said, I got a Fusion 3 w a floyd (a super strat) along side of this guitar. It had some MAJOR fret issues and the high B/E strings were unplayable. In order to make an exchange, I would have had to have shipped back to Germany, and the cheapest option was in excess of $400 which is as much as I paid for it. My other option was to take it to a luthier and have them do a $500 refret (it came with stainless.) Since I didn't want to do either, I removed the neck and found that the frets were both unseated (there was a gap between most of the frets and the fret board), and many of the fret slots were cut way too wide. So, my options were between paying $400 to send it back, paying $500 to have it refret professionally, or pay $400 for the tools to do the repair myself along with 15-20 hours of elbow grease.
Thomann sucks. While they do in fact provide an excellent bargain, you will have a blemish or two (of the 5 I've owned, only one came in perfect shape and it was the most expensive HB coming in at $600 shipped.) You are simply rolling the dice as to how much the repairs will cost you. I have since bought 2 EARTs from Amazon. They're both flawless and can very easily be exchanged if there is an issue. The tele is just short of $300, which is maybe an extra $80 after you have this thing shipped. I HIGHLY recommend getting an EART to a Harley Benton. They're a much better instrument for roughly the same price and you don't have to deal with the worst music company in the world.
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Construction brilliantly and well made
However if you want to modify the guitar it’s difficult
Peg holes are small so if you replace them because they’re supplied with crap ones be prepared to pay a luthier to do the job
I can’t understand why all guitar manufacturers just use 10 mm
However if you want to modify the guitar it’s difficult
Peg holes are small so if you replace them because they’re supplied with crap ones be prepared to pay a luthier to do the job
I can’t understand why all guitar manufacturers just use 10 mm
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