Is this Harley Benton better than a Fender?
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2024
- Is the Harley Benton ST-62 better than Fender? This is Steve's Harley Benton ST-62 DLX in Olympic White. With Rowell pickups, a Basswood body and a caramelised maple neck, this could be the best guitar you can get in its price bracket.
The anodised gold pickguard really sets off the Olympic white body.
We've tried many Harley Benton guitars but this may be the best one to date.
Compared to a squier stratocaster, this feels like a step above. The fretwork is better than what you'd get on a Fender Playet Stratocaster too.
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Thanks for the birthday love guys! ❤️ This guitar is awesome and look forward to when the upgrades are done. 🤘
The bigger trem blocks don't affect tone that much, but they help sustain. I have put big brass blocks in two of my guitars. That plus upgrading the saddles to rolled stainless steel really helped my CV strat. Those two together really helped. You can hear it resonate a lot better even not plugged in.
Nice review, I've got 3 HB ST-62 in Dakota Red, Seafoam Green and in Vintage White. And I had a lot of Strats from Fender in the last 25 Years. But I really like the Harley Benton's. The Necks are awesome, the Frets are perfect and the Pickups sound way better than the Fender's on the Classic Player. And like you Said, way better than a SQUIER Classic Vibe. Cheers 🤘🏻
In my opinion HB is killing it, great job HB
This guitar sounds amazing and looks the business too (as Dagan would say) lol. Ive watched several of your videos and I felt its worth to sub so I did. I planned on fender player in Olympic white but I think Il try this guitar first.
On my strats I have foam under the springs from side to side in the cavity to eliminate the unwanted "buzz' from the springs. Has worked well for me. Nice review. Cheers from Canada.
Happy birthday mate!
and I also used to have a white (Peavey) Strat with gold hardware....many many moons ago
Illuminating review on the HB Start
Yes HB is great bang for the buck, but I wish they would have also 7,25 and 9,5 inch neck radiuses on their Fender copies.
I have this guitar. The only thing that lets it down are the tuners but an easy replacement. Well worth the money and i'll happily gig it.
If thats an aluminum pick guard any pickups you put in that guitar will sound good. It reduces high end noise and radio interference considerably and has twice the resonance of a regular pickguard. I put one on my strat and it made my stock pickups sound like they're custom shop
I smiled when you didn't know what the neck profiles were. I never care and get annoyed that so many reviews get boringly picky. Subscribed so get busy!!!😁
I have 3 HBs. A vintage olympic white ST62 was first, scratchy frets but were great after a wire wool polish, kept the Roswells SCs as they sounded fine, impressed bigtime for the money. Then a vintage natural tele, heavy brick but amazing neck and frets - I always polish frets, hammer the trem guitars to check stability, and restring anyway (as I bend alot to half or quarter tones), kept the Roswells but might drop humbuckers in as it's routed ok, again impressed for the money. Then a CST 24 PRS style, brilliantly finished neck and set up, fat frets (that I don't much like - I have a great PRS SE 24), dropped in some cheap FLEOR coil-tap zebra humbuckers and it sounds great, very powerful. Tempted by this strat and would also swap the pickups for Fenders. BTW, I reckon swapping the trem block would fix the buzz (from resonance). I built a Fender strat lately from scratch with only top end Fender parts, cost a fortune, it didn't hack the quality of these HBs (especially the expensive neck - I wouldn't trust Fender parts much, but would still buy the guitars). So, I recently picked up a placid blue s/h Fender Player strat from a music studio, brilliantly set up, and it plays the best of all my guitars. I don't think set up gets enough attention actually. Mind you, nothing gets near my 1975 USA strat. Now, shall I go for this one...trem and pickup swap costs...hell, where am I going to put it...68 and proper 'old school' strat lover..too bad.
Happy birthday and many greetings from berlin, germany
I had a 2000 Squier Stratocaster, gold label, purple sparkle, that I paid $130, used in an Austin, Tx pawn shop. I don't know what it sold for when new, but that was a fantastic guitar. Rosewood fretboard, galactic metallic purple, made in Indonesia.
I loved that guitar, and it was a much better guitar than my Harley Benton ST 62 VW MN.
I love the Harley, but I have to be honest, with a few adjustments the Squier was superb, where as the Harley is fun to play, but the quality of the instrument is a little bit lower than the Squier.
I would have kept that Squier, but I used it to make a deal I don't think many people would pass up.
Happy birthday geezer!
Just changed the pickguard on my vintage white. Went with a parchment white from Harley.
Well pleased with this guitar. Put on Ernie Ball slinkys.
Happy happy
I have this guitar. Great player, looks great 😎🎸
I own an hot rod which I buyed used for less of 100 bucks and maybe one month old...hell of a guitar for the price and even more❤
I own 3 harley bentons I love them over my fenders / gibsons. Truly they are better
Yes I have two fender strats and I play my Hartley Benton strats more.😊
Happy Birthday Steve🥳🥳
I love my black and white ST-62 Stratocaster, and the Roswell pickups are great
I bought a HB telecaster and installed custom shop 51 nocaster pickups in it, sounds and plays better than my £1500 fender USA telecaster,
Thanks for the review! Really enjoyed it. I have the Harley Benton ST-62CC RW Lake Placid Blue and it is really incredible and especially for the price.
Lækker guitar🎸
Man får meget for pengene Lyder. Virklig godt
Great guitar ❤ I owned one but the guitar was stolen from my brothers apartment. I’m about to buy one again. Cheers 👍
I had to do some minor fret levelling on 6 out of the 9 Harley Benton I had. Nothing big, from one to a handful of frets, but it had to be done for action between 1.5 and 2 mm at 12th fret. I never had to do this on any of my 7 Ibanez.
Put a folded paper towel under the springs and they'll be silent. Or roll straps of chocolate packaging cardboard and slide them inside the springs.
Put cotton balls in the spring cavity, or short sections of shrink wrap over the springs and you are good to go.
I bought this guitar i love it. It plays beautifully.
NIce one again... You've been putting out (sorry for the pun :) ) some very interesting content recently with the Sire s7 and now HB... :)
If you could do a review of the new Fusion III HSS OMS (olive green one with the roasted flamed maple neck), and maybe compare it with the Sire S7 it would really be the bomb. :)
And please do a video of a gut shot on these guitars, if you by any chance change the pickups/electronics.
PS
Cort G300 pro looks very interesting too.
Got a similar one in a kind of orange/fiesta red. Feels so high quality. Probably will repaint it to lake placid blue.
The only thing I don't like with HB is that fender parts don't fit, I have a telecaster and I bought different pickguards but it just doesn't fit, the neck pocket is also different so you wouldn't be able to switch it or the body
This is true when it comes to tele style guitars. On the st-62 I had no issues changing pickguards and even necks. I even put in a fender mex bridge and it fit perfectly
@@eertje01 Ha! interesting! Thanks for you input
Where did you get the new . pickguard and neck?
It might be the matter of patent issues. Or intellectual property
I really can't understand why Fender and other manufacturers of ST type guitars still offset the bridge pickup. ST type guitars are too trebly and shrill on the bridge pickup, so if manufacturers had them parallel like the mid. and neck pickups that would go a long way to reducing that tinny strat sound so beloved of players in the 50's. (😖)
I couldn’t agree more however a lot of guitarists start crying if you deviate from the designs from the 50’s despite them having some faults
Got an HB black strat like Gilmours for $200 I just switch out the tuners otherwise very happy
The question should never be is this better than fender......the question should be...can this guitar be better than a fender for waaaay less money?That always implies some mods and some extra money to be spent but that is a more useful question to ask.....
0:50 - we need to see more of this footage fella.
Oh no. Well, here it is : ua-cam.com/video/riqlptpEU2c/v-deo.html
@@PherotoneStudios blimey! I have footage of our band, recorded about 15 years ago, of us playing some pub. If I watched it now I’d probably not recognise myself 😂
St modern plus just came out, blows 95 percent of fender spec and setup (at any price) out of the water for 350 quid.
*Moves switch to 2nd position*
“I don’t know anything that sounds good in 2nd, so… moving on.”
And plays nothing!
Best. Review. Ever. 😅
Dude @8:15 : "position two sounds terrible anyways"
Eric Johnson, Guthrie Govan, Eric Gales and all the pro community: 😶
cool guitar
Happy birthday 🙂
Happy Birthday from Cocoa Beach Florida
Happy birthday
Anyone know what the neck pocket width is on the HB strat? Can a Fender neck fit the neck pocket? Cheers
Hi lads, put a sponge under the 7:08
Anybody know bridge spacing measurements?
What's the difference with a regular ST-62? Only the neck shape and 21 frets vs 22?
Put a small spung under the springs and the problem will be solved!
happy birthday
why should 1950's tech and cheap raw materials be expensive?
I agree. These days, you can spend like $250 on a Harley Benton Gotoh guitar (you get Gotoh tuner & bridge, and korean Tesla pickups), maybe do a $100 of upgrades for Switchcraft jack & switch & CTS pots and for $350 you get a really high quality guitar. If you wanna splurge then, add another $250-300 to PLEK the guitar to make the frets perfect. What you can't fix though is the wood quality. You can't get a nice AAAA quilt or flame maple for that price.
That said, US-made guitars are expensive because the workers are expensive. American guitar builders are paid a lot more than Mexican or Indonesian workers. Plus usually, on more expensive guitars, they spent more time working on it (nicer fret dressing, more time on quality control, PLEK process, etc.) which adds up to the cost. But, Indonesian-made guitars ARE really nice these days: PRS SE, EVH Wolfgang Standard, Schecter, ESP LTD, Sterling by Musicman, Squier Classic Vibe, Harley Bentons, etc. Of course, the most expensive AAAAA/Master grade wood are reserved for US-made guitars.
Exactly
The Bridge is horrible. Doesn't say in tune..
No
you know how after a certain time patents and intellecual property expire ( like mickey mouse is now public domain?P).......when can guitars start using headssocks that arnt ugly?
Sounds like nails on a plank of wood to my ears
Japiberdei
Difference i notice between a C and D neck is C is more rounded or thicker and lesd flat on the back
9 times out of ten, they are crap...poor quality control...dont bother
thats good insight! have you tried a lot of their guitars?
@@dizgil6881 yes...not impressed with them to be honest...if you know how to do fret work yourself and know how to set guitars up buy one otherwise pass
@@banditcountry31 i see thats a shame.. Ive only played 2 (a Fusion III and a TE 62) both of which i bought online. The tele being half the price and a 'lower' series came in a much better state.
1. Are peoples standard really low or what? most guitars have almost 5 star ratings on thomann
2. Buying from south america youre basically stuck with it because shipping it back costs half the price of another guitar.
The fusion made me in fact learn how to do setups beyond what knew, and now im happy with it, though ive never played a higher tier guitar. But i will say both of these feel way higher quality than the one epiphone LP 92' that i once had
@@dizgil6881 buy a Kramer BARETTA special...less than £200...and are amazing.
Interesting comment. You think it's crap nine times out of ten, and still you have apparently bought at least ten Harley Benton , or how did you come to the the conclusion?
Just put some tape on those springs
Much bubble, less results.