New Harley Benton R*ck Style Basses

earwighoney

I came across these today, are they new?  I think they might be.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_rb_414cs_classic_series.htm

I can't imagine they'll be hanging around the Thomann website for very long....

Teyeplayer

Hadn’t seen these before, look cool!

ICBM

Hideous.

I'm not always a fan of RIC's heavy-handed legal bullying, and I do like some Harley Benton products, but in this case I hope there's a nasty letter in the post already.

prowla

It's a Chickenbacker with a body kit to avoid EU trademarks.

Funkfingers

"Mahogany" neck, glued into "mahogany" body. It hasn't a snowball's chance in Hell of sounding like the thing it pretends to resemble.

earwighoney

ICBM said:

Hideous.

I'm not always a fan of RIC's heavy-handed legal bullying, and I do like some Harley Benton products, but in this case I hope there's a nasty letter in the post already.

They'll sue you for suggesting they have already sent Harley Benton/Thomann a letter.

prowla

There's someone over on BassChat who has one and really likes it.

OilCityPickups

That's just plain nasty. Like @ICBM I normally like HB offerings ... but that's a stinker. Don't really care how it sounds ... it looks like a super cheap copy of a cheap 70s copy. Blurgggghhhhh

ICBM

OilCityPickups said:

That's just plain nasty. Like @ICBM I normally like HB offerings ... but that's a stinker. Don't really care how it sounds ... it looks like a super cheap copy of a cheap 70s copy. Blurgggghhhhh

Exactly. It's like an updated of one of these...

https://reverb.com/item/778493-circa-1975-kay-rickenbacker-4001-copy-fireglo

And even though I do actually like quite a lot of these Tiesco-made cheapos too for what they are, they're really junk that can be made into something vaguely playable and punky, rather than a Rick copy.

And yes, £400 for that is absolutely bonkers.

longjaw

I quite like them in a clunky, indie sorta way!

YellowLedBetterMan

F*** the haters, I like it.