Harley Benton TE-20MN BM Standard Series Review
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2020
- This guitar is only $80!!!!!
Bolt-on neck
Body: Basswood
Maple neck with modern C-shape
Maple fretboard
Fretboard radius: 350 mm
Dot-inlays
22 Frets
Scale: 648 mm
Nut width: 42 mm
Dual action truss rod
2x TE-style single coil pickups
Electronics: 1 Volume knob, 1 Tone knob, 3-way switch
Chrome hardware
Die-cast machine heads
09-042 Strings
Finish: Blue metallic high gloss
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We bought a used TE-30 for eventual modding, but a year later, it's still my go to guitar, and haven't touched it it plays to good.
It's hard to believe that you can actually get a completed guitar for $80! Most kits cost more than that, these days. That's a perfect guitar to practice modding.👍😎🎸🎶
that's what I thought ^^ want to try aging
@@marctestarossa 👍😎
Just purchased the left-handed version of this recently. Very excited to get it 👍
Good beginner guitar to learn on and mod. Harley Benton is smart to have good quality control up and down their product line. They hope to have that beginner upgrade to more expensive guitars and/or talk up their experience with their friends. Looking forward to the comparison video and again thanks for doing what you do and showing us what’s “under the hood” of these guitars.
Got one a couple months ago. Almost changed the pickups, but swapped the saddles for brass from an unfinished cheap Tele project. World of difference. Brought out the mids way more, and somehow made the neck pup slightly less muddy. I’m thinking of switching the B-E string’s saddle back to steal tho, so I can get some twang back. Also slapped a Strat neck on and sanded the head as close to a Tele shape. After fooling w/ the intonation, plays like a champ!
does it have a tremolo?
Sounded fine to my ears😎
Just got one,super guitar for the price, got rid of the tuners, saddles to brass, new pickups the neck pickup sucks, new bone nut,cts pots, treble bleed, .22 tone capacitor,cleaned the frets, it's now a match for the Fender CV Tele.
What a great looking guitar love that colour!
Great review
I bought one I like it's excellent value cost £87 UK sterling. Sounds good nice neck fun to play lovely finish. I would think about changing the neck pick up only but it depends what you want from playing this guitar.
Nice i planning to put some laquer on The fretboard and neck.
That neck pickup route is begging for a Filtertron. 😎
Great guitar for modding,
I have the left handed TE-20 out of the box it worked but I bought it to mod. I added River Pickups in the bridge, fender 62 reissue in the neck, shielded the guitar, brass gotoh saddle, and guyker brass knobs also a bone nut. It's a good player and a great platform for mods. Would u do it again? At this point after trying a Squire I would say buy the Squire! The one thing I loved is that I learned so much by modding the TE-20 and it was fun to work on it with my family.
Which Squier The CV or Affinity?
@@batphink2655 affinity
Can you confirm that a p90 fits in the neck cavity? Thought about buying one and putting a p90 in but don't have the means to route it out.
A Squier Bullet Telecaster - can`t get a price on one in Sweetwater - Reverb - Guitar Center - it seems they are being phased out in favor of the Affinity line which sells for $180. An Affinity suffers from some issues as well so you might want to upgrade the pickups and tuners and maybe the electronics as well except you`ve spent the $100 difference for the Fender decal. You can get some inexpensive Alnico 5 pickups for $25 on EBay , Wilkinson tuners $30, Brass compensated saddles $16 , roller string trees $7 , a Bone nut for $8 - 10 - all for that $100 difference. I have read that the Affinity/Bullet sizing is also non standard ( like Harley Benton ) so modding has some issues as well - at least that's what the forums say. I have the knowledge to mod and setup a guitar so these issues are not major for me but some users want to be able to just buy and drop in their new hardware. The bottom line is whether the guitar is playable or not out of the box and are there serious issues that can hamper a new guitarist to learn. An experienced guitarist most likely knows how to upgrade component to get a "better sound" and tuning stability.
Would this make a comfortable couch guitar? How does it sound unplugged?
I think the pick ups are fine. So much depends on acoustics and amps anyway. Still I'm in my 50s now and a bit deaf from playing in a god awful bloody loud band in the 80s. I do have a Japanese fender which I bought in 87. There's a difference in tone but not that marked and you don't hear two guitars together so what's the issue really?
With the right pickups it sounds very much like the real deal. Whoever thinks not has probably never played or heard any of Fenders toploaders
How much does it weigh?
2 words for pickups. Tone Planet!
I own 5 Harley Bentons. The two I play the most? My $277 (at the time) Fusion II and my $78 (at the time) TE 20MN BM. this thing absolutely is worth every penny and then some. I bought mine because I wanted to have a cheap guitar to relic up, what I got was a cheap guitar I could relic that I now constantly play. I couldn't be happier with it unless it came with brass saddles and expensive electronics but again SEVENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS lol.
How thick is the neck? I like necks on the rather thinner side, that's what has me on the verge since I can try it in my country.
@@plexim1591 I wouldn't call it really fat, but it's thicker than a modern fender neck. I usually like a fairly thin profile too but this neck is actually okay for being a little on the chunkier side ...
@@FloridaManRacer thanks for answering. Sadly I don't really have a reference, since Fenders are so expensive in my shit country, I don't even bother trying them at shops, and they usually don't have them hanging anyway, it's something you have to order.
What happened to your channel!? We need more videos!
If it's playable and well built guitar for 80 $, then that's good to know. Apperently it's not a Fender Telecaster lawsuit guitar, but a Harley Benton, and that may be good enough. Would be nice to know it's limitations if you want to use it for more then practice.
Decent guitar
Thomann can offer such inexpensive (i wouldn't say cheap) guitars because they get their stuff direct from the chinese manufacturer without any distributor or wholesaler. You can't expect high quality, but it's worth the money. The TE-20MN BM is 89 € now. I think a order one in candy apple red.
Hi does this have a thin neck? thanks!
would you say this guitar is worth 160 usd? sadly the shipping price makes this guitar double the price :(
You said, "It's a lot lighter, heavy". What did you mean?
The color in the fretboard is lighter than the color of the neck. [As for weight, the guitar is] heavy.
nice vid. I would have loved some more sound sample though. Otherwise nice one anyway m8. Spot on ;-)
With shipping it's about $112.
Its hands down the best budget guitar
@@BOBANDVEG I've got the same model myself. A great budget guitar, but perfectly giggable. For 88€ plus 15€ shipping is an absolute no brainer. I love the lightness, neck and pick ups.
Check some other reviews...
Cheap and cheerful..
I havet The lefty black version! Not sound of a tele at all? Check your ears man.
With millions of versions since it was invented in 1950, what does tele sound means to you? Does the first teles made of pine and so desired today, have a better sound than this one? ;)
Ha I've done that, order €200 worth of stuff to get the shipping free.
It looks like 89 bucks for me. Also how did you get it shipped for $30? For me it shows $70. Am I shopping from the wrong site? I live in Florida.
Yes, you live at the wrong place. Shipping is free here in Germany. ;-)
Yes, it's a cheap guitar. The stuff on it is cheap, obviously. Each time I hear a Harley Benton from the bottom of their price range, I feel the pick-ups are dull. Things change dramatically the moment you get a model with Roswell or something rouhgly above 150€.
So it probably won't compete with the Squier Bullet but the question there is if you would keep the Squier pick-ups.
Speaki g from bitter experience, the Squier Bullet Strat isn't fit for purpose, mine was utter rubbish and nigh on unplayable. My Harley ST20 cheap as chips strat is fantastic.
Sounded fine to me😎
@@richardrichard5409 Honestly, it depends what Squier Bullet you get. I got one made in Indonesia and it kicks ass.
I'd bet on the Bullet, but it looks like Fender just did a price increase.
I got one of the fsr bullet squier in butterscotch at 150 shipped before they jacked it up to 199. Im guessing they were blowing out old stock for new stock. This is the time of year when all the old shit gets blown out.
Просто хорошая гитара без наворотов и понтов, что нужно в условиях малой зарплаты? Вполне хорошая палка, советую к ней же купить комбо Nux Mighty 20/40 BT - вещь тоже хорошая и намного интереснее, чем просто транзисторный комбо!
Привет из Москвы!
Maybe it's important for somebody to say that the body is thicker than the Affinity or Bullet series Squiers. Yet not as thick as a the regular Fender body.
What about the neck?
@@plexim1591 modern c in fender terms I would say, rather slim.
It would be better if you PLAYED IT !!
If they sell it for 80$, they probably bought it for 40$ or less, and who sold it to them probably earned 20%, so that makes production costs with overhead somewhere inbetween 30+ $. Who in this world can make a whole guitar with excelent finish and in the end playabale guitar for such a money.... that i call respect... or slavery.
And somewhere an Allen is looking like "heeeey I am on the 'net"
you cant build one that cheap..
Hard to believe I spend 15 minutes to not hear what the guitar sounds like. And dude, learn how to FF when removing screws, etc.
Check out around the 6.48 minute mark