Harley Benton Loyalty Sale 2.0: 25% off for 25 days on 25 products

carlos

Sorry for copying the ad copy, but some of these prizes are nuts since the guitars are already great value for money. These are the prices I often see for these guitars 2nd hand, not new. Ends 14th October or while stocks last, I guess.

Full line up here: https://www.thomann.de/gb/social_harley-benton-loyalty-sale-2.html

LionAquaLooper

Harley benton have been around for 25 years??

carlos

LionAquaLooper said:

Harley benton have been around for 25 years??

Yes, started in 1998 as the house brand for Thomann

Dave_Mc

LionAquaLooper said:

Harley benton have been around for 25 years??

Yep but it's only more recently that people have tried swapping the pickups and turning them into custom shop-beaters and that's when their popularity really took off.

carlos

That 3 pickup SG is pretty cool, but then it's 3 pickups to replace!

stimpsonslostson

carlos said:

That 3 pickup SG is pretty cool, but then it's 3 pickups to replace!

Replace one= epiphone
Replace two= USA standard
Replace three= custom shop. 

Right? 

carlos

It does look cool IMO

Svartmetall

Thanks for the heads-up...kind of tempted to try one of those single-P90 SG types...

Dave_Mc

carlos said:

That 3 pickup SG is pretty cool, but then it's 3 pickups to replace!

Yeah that's the problem. And while I haven't tried them, I kind of suspect the stock pickups are reasonably decent- at least for cheapish pickups- so you might have to spend at least a bit to get something much better. Maybe Entwistle? They're (based on very limited data points) the best of the cheaper ones, at least to my ears, although their build quality might not be the best...

I know I was making fun above but that Filtertron Tele is hard to resist (a few other ones too, like that SG you're looking at, just I don't have anything with Filtertrons so it's the obvious one which screams out to me). Similar problem- Filtertrons aren't that common so there aren't that many cheap replacement options (though to be honest I suspect even if there were, they might not be much better... again Entwistle maybe!). Even Catswhiskers you're talking £150 or so- and that's darn good value for handwound UK pickups, just to be clear, just that's more than the guitar!

Svartmetall said:

Thanks for the heads-up...kind of tempted to try one of those single-P90 SG types...

Yep that one too

stufisher

Thanks @carlos for posting the link ... I am also now craving that DC600 VI SG  

I was after a Yamaha Revstar with P90s but I'm thinking at this price it might be time to acquire an SG (I ain't got one) and install a set of 3 P90s ... need to do the numbers to decide.

Anybody got a good set of 3 P90s that they're not using or don't want any more? 

Has anybody got one of these HB SGs already?

Has anyone modded with P90s?

CampbellH

I use Warman guitars when I need pickups. Great prices and good quality. They dont use fancy packaging,and will do custom orders. Ie I wanted a bridge dogear p90 for a LPJ and they only offered pairs on their website. A quick email thread, price agreement and the pickup was here in a couple of days.

Voxman

The great thing is that at these prices you're not worried about dints or even being stolen.  I quite like this one for £211:

Harley Benton SC-550 II Gotoh PAF

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_sc_550_gotoh_paf_tribute.htm

Shame it doesn't have coil splits though. 

CampbellH

Voxman said:

The great thing is that at these prices you're not worried about dints or even being stolen.  I quite like this one for £211:

Harley Benton SC-550 II Gotoh PAF

https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_sc_550_gotoh_paf_tribute.htm

Shame it doesn't have coil splits though. 

If it has 4 wire pickups is a simple mod. If not, is not expensive to get pickups and push pulls. I did that mod to my Dean V. A couple of hours work at the most.

Dave_Mc

stufisher said:

Thanks @carlos for posting the link ... I am also now craving that DC600 VI SG  

I was after a Yamaha Revstar with P90s but I'm thinking at this price it might be time to acquire an SG (I ain't got one) and install a set of 3 P90s ... need to do the numbers to decide.

Anybody got a good set of 3 P90s that they're not using or don't want any more? 

Has anybody got one of these HB SGs already?

Has anyone modded with P90s?

I've never tried any of the humbucker-sized ones, but I think it's pretty difficult to make humbucker-sized P90s which sound "right". Which usually means it's going to cost a fair bit of money. Which means you're likely to spend quite a bit more than the guitar cost. Which means it might be easier to just buy the guitar which already has the P90s...

carlos

@Dave_Mc ;
Get 3 of these? http://www.irongear.co.uk/irongear_pickups_004.htm
I remember they sounded fantastic when I tried them

chor808

carlos said:

@Dave_Mc ;
Get 3 of these? http://www.irongear.co.uk/irongear_pickups_004.htm
I remember they sounded fantastic when I tried them

I've got two of these you can have for 30 quid for the two. Chrome ones...

stufisher

Thanks @chor808 but if I go ahead with the purchase then I'd need the gold ones to maintain the aesthetics of the guitar.

I'll contemplate for a bit yet as the sale is on for another three weeks  

Gemsdals

I needed some sparkle in my life so I've got a sparkly purple Fusion on it's way.

chor808

I do fancy one of the sc-550s. Anyone tried one....wonder how heavy they are....

Voxman

chor808 said:

I do fancy one of the sc-550s. Anyone tried one....wonder how heavy they are....

I'd be interested too if anyone has one to share their thoughts on?>

carlos

chor808 said:

I do fancy one of the sc-550s. Anyone tried one....wonder how heavy they are....

I'd advise you to email gitarre@thomann.de
They will reply same day usually.