GUITAR- HARLEY BENTON JA60CC__NEW__100% Pro play, look, sound, sound & sound

HARLEY BENTON| JA60CC 

As I have pointed out before this is not a guitar Blog. I have however always tried to give you a 'NEED TO KNOW' when there are significant change in the industry with anything related to the guitar. Innovation, trends and above all 'Value for Money'. In short are you getting a killer deal or are you getting ripped off ??? 

Both Gibson and Harley Benton are taking their guitar to a new low but in entirely different ways.

In the last few years entry level guitars have improved every year and a very few lower priced guitars were heading into into the $500 range territory where one could with about $200 work by your local tech compete easily with 95% of any guitar you have heard on a famous recording for decades. In short $700 got you Pro. But not right out of the box. That is radically changing.

QUALITY OR QUANTITY, YOUR CHOICE

Harley Benton have done what even the big names could have done but didn't to make guitars that cutting cost is done by keeping the priorities in having the end guitar have pro play-ability and sound. 

You get what is a take in a Fender Jazzmaster guitar. 

First for a start you get a slightly smaller body, The alder has been replaced by basswood. Basswood is cheaper but it is indeed a wood used in guitars that cost a couple of thousand plus. The fretboard is laurel not rosewood though it has not only the look but similar property's with density unlike pau ferro which is harder than rosewood and doesn't have a rosewood 'feel' or sound.

Gone is the elaborate whammy from the Fender. 

Many players do not need or even want a whammy and the Jazzmaster whammy design has tuning issues.

Gone are the 3 little blade switches from the 'classic' model of the Jazzmaster. Added expense and even Fender does not use them on their standard models. All the hardware is of a good quality not dumbed down. There are no tuning issues with the tuners. 

Incredible value for money

The PU's are HB's own and the sound is closer to an exceptional P90 then a standard Fender Jazzmaster which are weak, thin and piercing. In a blindfold test beside even a high end U.S. Jazzmaster made 90% of anyone comparing them in a blindfold test would pick them. They sound noticeably excellent even on a video.

The finish is poly not lacquer. But you can find it on 60's Strats that are to die for so in my book lacquer being better is such a nano improvement to tone that it is smaller than inconsequential.

CONCLUSION

A total steal!!! Pro guitar for the price of the average pro guitar pedal???

_________WTF its $220.00 USD.

the fine print

    F.U. Baily CEO of Junk Guitars

We often have ourselves to blame. We see and are told that the Jazzmaster is cool 

and buy with are eyes. If a cheap copy appears identical we want it.  At minimum half 

the guys who play a Srat do not ever use the whammy.  Half of them lose the damn bar. 

So when we get a copy guitar the maker could give us a pro bridge with great sustain or a

look-a-like whammy that is total garbage. 

But why would they do it? 

First you are smart enough to know better and once they sell you junk,

you are the perfect customer to buy the another guitar to replace it. 

You guys are not stupid so why do you keep acting like you are???