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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
If everything works and the frets are ok, I agree with @Phil_aka_Pip - decent value at £100.
https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_sc_450pluslh_hb_vintage_series.htm?sid=a1261240fcd37dedc141a2effd6fa4e6
In my opinion, it would be difficult to justify the additional cost of replacement parts when the overall outlay could have purchased a younger and better instrument.
Good suggestion. Their RGX models are of interest too. You can add Squier and Cort to the list too.
I would not pay as much as £100 without a fuller hands-on assessment, it could easily need that much again spent on it even if you don’t change the pickups.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
On the other hand, mine has a nice playing medium D neck, capable of very low action, and the pickups sound really nice.
You could do better for not a lot more, but if in working condition, they are OK players in ny experienxe.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I have a CSL LP Cusom-a-like which I’ve owned from new in 1976 and it’s absolutely superb (glued rather than bolt-in neck, solid mahogany body, proper humbucking “Super 70” pickups (sadly long gone as they’re quite sought after in themselves, to the point that Ash at Oil City does hand-wound replicas), and workmanship and finish which easily stand comparison with what Gibson were shipping at the time) and if another one like that but without the ill-considered modifications (third pickup, a couple of extra switches, and later on a pair of Bill Lawrence pickups) which seemed like a good idea to my teenage self came up I’d be willing to pay a heck of a lot more than £100 for it...
Other CSL branded instruments weren’t as nice (or expensive - £180 was a fair chunk in 1976) as mine but I think they preferred to pitch their stuff a little higher than some other importers, and I don’t recall ever seeing anything *really* cheap and nasty with their branding on, so, while I’d *really* rather see it in person, and ideally whip the covers of the back to see what it’s made out of first, it may well be worth a punt...
There was a right-handed one otherwise identical to it in the shop I work for recently - I can guarantee it will be the typical mid-70s ply body with a thin ply top stretched over a block in the bridge/tailpiece area.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
A few people I knew in school (yes, we all bought our guitars in the same shops, hence a lot of CSL branding...) in the mid ‘70s had bolt-on CSLs. One was catalogued as “the 59er” but was nothing like anything anybody was making in 1959, being a sort of Gibson/Fender mashup with a Les Paul shaped body in a Fender style translucent blonde finish, with a Strat style tummy cut on the back, and a bolt-on transparent finished maple neck with maple fretboard. That was a cracking guitar (and Steve Marriott clearly agreed as I’ve seen a number of photos of him rocking an identical one in his Humble Pie days!). Another was a Jimmy Page style EDS1275-a-like 6/12 twin neck - again bolt-on neck(s) but emphatically not in any way cheap or nasty. All of them I remember as being way nicer than the superficially similar stuff from the likes of Grant, Columbus. CMI, et-al
I actually think some of those guitars were really interesting, especially when they were “copies” of guitars which never existed, (like my mates 59er “Les Paul”, or my LP Custom with tree-of-life fretboard inlays and “vase of flowers” headstock facing inlay) and, quite apart from at least some of the guitars actually being very, very good I can see why some people collect them...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
In any objective way they’re still worse than an average £200-£250 or so Chinese guitar of today, but they sound much more interesting, and there’s some nostalgia value for those of us of a certain age .
The ones I’ve done have sold for between £150 and £250 depending on condition, originality and whether the pickups and machineheads have been upgraded, but they’ve all been structurally sound and played properly - if that can’t be achieved economically then they’re scrapped.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein