A 2015 mod a Harley Benton guitar challenge?

TTony

Thanks @themeinside - I've already tried that email addy, just in case marketing@thomann.de didn't do English!

themeinside

It appears that may be the case! How irritating that we haven't had a reply. Still, they are now, in theory, readied for a message, so it might be worth sending one more chasing up email to that address? 

DannyP

I fancy getting a tele and reshaping the headstock, but someone's beaten me to it,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tele-style-guitar-from-H-Benton-with-Wilkinson-upgrades-full-pro-set-up/191483131269?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=1&asc=27676&meid=20994ff8a22b43f3bc2ac2e09a6df616&pid=100009&rk=5&rkt=10&sd=121548838396

And look who it is!

TTony

themeinside said:

It appears that may be the case! How irritating that we haven't had a reply. Still, they are now, in theory, readied for a message, so it might be worth sending one more chasing up email to that address? 

Done.

To both international@thomann.de and marketing@thomann.de

Subject matter of email;  "One final attempt at making contact".

entee

Hope this kicks off soon.....I've started buying bits!  lol

PVO_Dave

Might be worth trying Customer Care too @TTony - sc.cc@thomann.de

They seem to reply much quicker than the international address.

ToneControl

Why not phone them up?

JudasVigilante

Just looked up the Harley Benton brand on wikipedia and although they're made in China, they are owned by a south korean parent company who manufacture guitars for Epiphone, Ibanez and Peavey. Those are big hitters.

longjaw

This thread has brought to my attention how cheap Harley Benton Teles are, so cheap I'll be buying a TE-20 Tele to cannabalise for my Thinline 72 build (photo below).

I'll use all the hardware (neckplate, knobs, strap buttons, ferrules, etc) and sell the pick-ups, body and neck on eBay. Might even make a profit!

equalsql

ToneControl said:

has anyone thought of getting a "decoration" guitar?

I've been seriously eying up one of them acoustic basses for 50 quid. They show it has having a small dent on the back near the heel. Apart from that it looks good. 

longjaw

equalsql said:

ToneControl said:

has anyone thought of getting a "decoration" guitar?

I've been seriously eying up one of them acoustic basses for 50 quid. They show it has having a small dent on the back near the heel. Apart from that it looks good. 

Where can you find out the damage to the deko stuff? There's a bass I fancy for 33 quid!

JudasVigilante

After much deliberation I've decided to go for the below guitar as apposed to the triple HB sg I was gonna get. The SG had wilkinson kit throughout and probably didn't warrant any or much of a hardware upgrade, so any mods would have been cosmetic/finishing. I'll save 'her' for another day. Gonna go for the ash body tele with maple neck, and with the first three digits of the price being 666 in (£'s) it must rock. It's a sign he screams at his computer!

Can I just check with you good good people, the finishing date is by summer this year? Am I right? Is there an exact date and can we start buying/modding yet?

Cheers everyone,

Paul

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbt30be_egitarre.htm

TTony

Exact date - no.  (It's not formal!).

Buy now - if you want to, but I'm hoping that Thomann (or an alternative) would do us some sort of "deal".

entee

Ordered mine - impatience won out  lol

ToneControl

longjaw said:

equalsql said:

ToneControl said:

has anyone thought of getting a "decoration" guitar?

I've been seriously eying up one of them acoustic basses for 50 quid. They show it has having a small dent on the back near the heel. Apart from that it looks good. 

Where can you find out the damage to the deko stuff? There's a bass I fancy for 33 quid!

pot luck
not found anyone cursing so far though

UnclePsychosis

At least half a dozen "deko" instruments have been bought by guys over at Basschat, all of them perfectly playable apparently. Cosmetic issues for the most part. 

Andyjr1515

equalsql said:

ToneControl said:

has anyone thought of getting a "decoration" guitar?

I've been seriously eying up one of them acoustic basses for 50 quid. They show it has having a small dent on the back near the heel. Apart from that it looks good. 

I am delighted with mine (needed better stings, though).  I made the same comment but apparently, the 'dent' is a purposely added 'D' to designate it as a Deko quality reject...it seems to be often a lot tougher to work out why it was rejected in the first place.  It actually does HB quality standards great credit. 

DannyP

Aw, man. I've got about 4 or 5 ideas now that I can't decide between:

1. Keef Micawber Tribute

2. ES355 style with a bigsby

3. Carve some body contours into a Tele, paint it Ocean Turquoise and stick a p90 in the neck

4 - 5 Take a LP Jr. type or a JM type and turn it into something akin to a Fano Alt De Facto type guitar. I mean, what's the difference between this

...and this...

CLUE: about £2.5K!!!

Nomad

I know there's no 3-year warranty on the decoration instruments, but does anyone know if are stull covered by the 30 day thing? (If not, would the statutory 14 days still apply?)

JudasVigilante

Just ordered my HB TE 30 standard in biege. Now for parts!