6 string traitor!

[Baloney Balderdash]

So I've been eying this beauty for a while, and finally just pulled the trigger and ordered it.

 

A dirt cheap Harley Benton TE-20HH SBK Standard Series, double humbucker Tele.

 

Which though have only received amazing reviews.

 

Basswood body and a Maple neck with an Amaranth (Purpleheart) fretboard, and string through.

 

 

Plan to string it up accordingly and tune it to C standard tuning.

 

Really looking forward to get to try this.

 

Edited January 16 by Baloney Balderdash

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

C standard is a *good* tuning. It dooms. 

 

Nice little guitars, these. 

[Baloney Balderdash]

3 hours ago, ProjeKtWEREWOLF said:

C standard is a *good* tuning. It dooms. 

 

Nice little guitars, these. 

This will be my first mod to it:

 

Though if I really like the guitar, but find the pickups a bit lacking, I'd most likely upgrade them for a Seymour Duncan SH-2 Jazz neck pickup, and a DiMarzio DP100 Super Distortion bridge pickup, at some point.

 

 

Edited January 16 by Baloney Balderdash

[Magister Ludi]

Yo BB Dude-Did you follow through with this purchase?

I picked one up this week,its a gem of a unit !!

Your ideas for the rep pups-is that your only choices,or do you have other options for pups? I see the serious interest building with the sound options........unfortuneatly a bit pricy with your way

I've started f**ing about already with stuff-yep---flatwounds 10-46 pyramids! Heh

let me know if you do get this thang and run with it,i'll be v.interested 🦧
ML

 

 

 

ps-where do I get the sticker from? lol

Edited February 9 by Magister Ludi
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[HeatHorseChaz]

I’ll always vouch for HB. I’ve had my Fusion II about 4 years and it’s my main gigging guitar now. Unreal bit of kit for the money.

[Baloney Balderdash]

On 09/02/2025 at 17:53, Magister Ludi said:

Yo BB Dude-Did you follow through with this purchase?

I picked one up this week,its a gem of a unit !!

Your ideas for the rep pups-is that your only choices,or do you have other options for pups? I see the serious interest building with the sound options........unfortuneatly a bit pricy with your way

I've started f**ing about already with stuff-yep---flatwounds 10-46 pyramids! Heh

let me know if you do get this thang and run with it,i'll be v.interested 🦧
ML

 

 

 

ps-where do I get the sticker from? lol

 

On 13/02/2025 at 00:05, HeatHorseChaz said:

I’ll always vouch for HB. I’ve had my Fusion II about 4 years and it’s my main gigging guitar now. Unreal bit of kit for the money.

As amazing as it looks, this one was a dud, and I send it back.

 

It didn't resonate properly and had no sustain, and what's even worse it was impossible to get the hex key down in the truss rod nut to adjust neck relief, which had absolutely no relief from stock, even with the greater tension strings I put on.

 

There was no issues however with getting my money back, with shipping paid and all, from Thomann.

 

But also I got the Harley Benton GuitarBass, their take on the Bass VI concept, and that one is absolutely perfect, even sounds amazing, bar the stock single coil pickups being quite noisy. 

 

So I don't doubt these guitars usually and generally are an amazing buy, I just happened to be unlucky and get a dud, which I suppose is what can happen, when you buy a dirt cheap budget instrument without playing it first.

 

But I don't plan to take another chance with it, I think if I find I need a guitar at some point, I will just upgrade the pickups of my actually quite amazing Epiphone Standard, which was is also budget instrument.

 

For now though I'll stick to my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, tuned to G# standard tuning (that is as one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, + a high E):

 

Which sounds and plays absolutely killer, a really snappy and punchy, growly and clear tone, with sustain for days, and literally perfect fretwork form stock (it's from 2019, back when these basses were still build in Indonesia by Cort), and surprisingly quiet pickups, despite being single coil, which I contribute to the fact that at this point they used proper shielded wiring.

 

 

Edited February 23 by Baloney Balderdash