HARLEY BENTON FINALLY DID IT - ST Modern

[JohnnyGtar]

Harley Benton seriously ups their game. Babicz Tremolo, locking tuners. Prices range fron $364 to $409.





Harley Benton webpage for these guitars: https://harleybenton.com/st-modernplus/

$364 - Strat style specs:

• Body: American alder
• Bolt-on neck: roasted and flamed Canadian maple
• Fingerboard: Canadian maple with rounded edges
• Dot fingerboard inlays
• Fluorescent neck markings
• Compound fingerboard radius: 305 - 406 mm (12"-16")
• Scale: 648 mm (25.50")
• Nut width: 42 mm (1.65")
• Graphite nut
• Double action truss rod with adjustment wheel
• Neck profile: D - thickness at 1st fret: 20.5 mm / at 22nd fret: 22.5 mm
• 22 Medium Jumbo stainless steel frets with rounded ends
• Pickups: 1 Tesla VR-Nitro Alnico 5 covered humbucker (bridge) and 2 Tesla TV-S1M Alnico 5 single coils (middle and neck)
• 1 Volume control
• 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
• 5-Way switch
• 3-Ply mint green pickguard
• Babicz FCH 2-Point Z-Series C full contact tremolo
• Chrome hardware
• Sung-Il ML-55 locking machine heads with HB logo
• Factory strings: Elixir Coated 010-046 (tuned to E A D G B E standard)

$409 - Flametop Strat style specs:

• Body: American alder
• Bolt-on neck: roasted and flamed Canadian maple
• Fingerboard: Canadian maple with rounded edges
• Dot fingerboard inlays
• Fluorescent neck markings
• Compound fingerboard radius: 305 - 406 mm (12"-16")
• Scale: 648 mm (25.50")
• Nut width: 42 mm (1.65")
• Graphite nut
• Double action truss rod with adjustment wheel
• Neck profile: D - thickness at 1st fret: 20.5 mm / at 22nd fret: 22.5 mm
• 22 Medium Jumbo stainless steel frets with rounded ends
• Pickups: 1 Tesla VR-Nitro Alnico 5 Zebra humbucker (bridge) and 2 Tesla TV-S1M Alnico 5 single coil (middle and neck)
• 1 Volume control
• 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
• 5-Way switch
• 3-Ply mint green pickguard
• Babicz FCH 2-Point Z-Series C full contact tremolo
• Chrome hardware
• Sung-Il ML-55 locking machine heads with HB logo
• Factory strings: Elixir Coated 010-046 (tuned to E A D G B E standard)

 

[Shask]

I saw those earlier, but I wish there was a HH model.

I also noticed they had a D neck. That is kind of weird, because their current models have a Modern C neck.

 

[JohnnyGtar]

The Babicz trem is a cool feature for some people, but it's a deal breaker for me. Henning talks about this in the video.

 

[phillybhatesme]

The flamed necks look great.

 

[DanTravis62]

I dig it, though i'm unlikely to buy one.


Newbies have way better options than I did starting out. My first real guitar was a mexican strat that I gutted and put an SH-6 in... because something like this didn't exist.

 

[PurityS.L.G]

1. I thought forum rules stated anyone who post a Henning video gets an automatic ban

Speaking of annoying YouTubers…

2. Any bets on when the Glen Fricker vid of this guitar will drop? Bonus points for who guesses the clickbait title.

THIS GUITAR WILL DESTROY ALL BOUTIQUE BRANDS!!!!

 

[DanTravis62]

1. I thought forum rules stated anyone who post a Henning video gets an automatic ban

Speaking of annoying YouTubers…

2. Any bets on when the Glen Fricker vid of this guitar will drop? Bonus points for who guesses the clickbait title.

THIS GUITAR WILL DESTROY ALL BOUTIQUE BRANDS!!!!

Complete with sound clips of DIs as if that proves the HB absolutely kills all ESPs and Charvels and Jacksons

 

[Metalhex]

Any bets on when the Glen Fricker vid of this guitar will drop? Bonus points for who guesses the clickbait title

"Harley Benton CRUSHES Gibson FOR GOOD! SHOVE THIS up your CVNTS!!"

 

[JohnnyGtar]

1. I thought forum rules stated anyone who post a Henning video gets an automatic ban

Speaking of annoying YouTubers…

2. Any bets on when the Glen Fricker vid of this guitar will drop? Bonus points for who guesses the clickbait title.

THIS GUITAR WILL DESTROY ALL BOUTIQUE BRANDS!!!!

 

[Racerxrated]

I dig it, though i'm unlikely to buy one.


Newbies have way better options than I did starting out. My first real guitar was a mexican strat that I gutted and put an SH-6 in... because something like this didn't exist.

Listen man, you don't KNOW beginner guitars until you've experienced the king, the one and only.........

Sears catalog special, an ARBOR LP clone.

What a steaming pile of shit that was. Going from that to an 83 Ibanez Destroyer was like I won the lottery.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

I bought a HB Explorer. I must say it is a fantastic guitar. It plays, looks and sounds great. Way over the price point. Was perfect right out of the box.

 

[fek]

I know that the difference between a 1.65" nut and a 1.6875" nut is miniscule on paper, but for some reason the 43's just feel so much better to me. I really need to get over that.

 

[shar-vell Dan]

Tell Harley he can keep his Bentons i'll stick with Charvel / Jackson Japan.

 

[Shask]

I know that the difference between a 1.65" nut and a 1.6875" nut is miniscule on paper, but for some reason the 43's just feel so much better to me. I really need to get over that.

Same, but opposite. I feel like I need finger extensions on 43mm nuts.

 

[DanTravis62]

Listen man, you don't KNOW beginner guitars until you've experienced the king, the one and only.........

Sears catalog special, an ARBOR LP clone.

What a steaming pile of shit that was. Going from that to an 83 Ibanez Destroyer was like I won the lottery.

Man, I love destroyers.

 

[Monkey Man]

Listen man, you don't KNOW beginner guitars until you've experienced the king, the one and only.........

Sears catalog special, an ARBOR LP clone.

What a steaming pile of shit that was. Going from that to an 83 Ibanez Destroyer was like I won the lottery.

I don't know man.

I've got a Behringer El Toro™ and it's hard to imagine anything more-crappy.

I bet a Hello Kitty Strat would blow chunks all over it.

 

[ClintN667]

1. I thought forum rules stated anyone who post a Henning video gets an automatic ban

Speaking of annoying YouTubers…

2. Any bets on when the Glen Fricker vid of this guitar will drop? Bonus points for who guesses the clickbait title.

THIS GUITAR WILL DESTROY ALL BOUTIQUE BRANDS!!!!

Glenn had a video trashing Gibson on a 10s guitar. A brand well known for giving Youtubers a free custom then ripping off the average order. The guys who actually got theirs were not happy either. He always reminds me off those guys who randomly bash someone else completely off topic to get their point across. I see it done a lot in politics where people have to bash whichever senile geezer on the other side of their polical party.

Like wtf are you talking about? Say what you want about Gibson but you NEVER hear of someone who ordered a guitar and never got it from them. Every single gibson I've tried in recent years has been damn good. I was guilty of drinking that kool aid that Gibson was junk until I went out shopping for a single cut. I had every intent on buying other brands but Gibson had mojo that the others just didnt to my surprise.