Spent yesterday doing setup's on Harley Benton's.

[Duncanpup]

A ramble been up since 03:45 can’t sleep.

The high school music teacher had a budget I pointed her to H.B. Guitars for her students in class and she picked up six guitars they arrived Thursday. I do not own any H.B. I have worked on and then played them actually two before yesterday a strat and then their tele rosewood model it’s all veneer the tele but for $150 sure.

So eighteen went picked up the guitars and the teacher and we went to work on them, in buying she was able to purchase H.B. one tele it’s a copy of their 52 , then four Stratocaster model 62 models these model guitars the tele and Stratocasters are all basswood body ,and then she also purchased a H.B.450 single cut. Not one guitar over $270 in price she scored I told her, and I was impressed with the 450 Les Paul model mahogany and a cool maple top that made me wonder for the price.

I weighed the tail piece of the 450 on my scale and I think it’s aluminum and I’m looking under neck humbucker it is sporting a long neck tenon. I know neck tenon apples and oranges I can’t tell the difference when playing a Les with or without, yet my tokai reborn has long tenon.

So yesterday we did the setups new strings I even replaced and added new bone nut for one of the strat copies because she has two students that are left handed and switched it around. I even replaced the one jack on the one strat yet everything else is all stock looking at the pots I’m not sure what the stamps are, yet for kids to play practice it is a awesome haul for them.

I’ve never been a guitar snob I could care what name is on the headstock let’s just play and explore the fretboard and have fun. I personally am a MIJ collector discovered made in Japan guitars as kid in army in West Germany when I was stationed there.

Today the bubble has burst as in we have many choices as home players. Regardless if it’s made in Korea or Indonesia yes we have to be careful about some guitars from the eastern world in not so great in quality ,yet you can find a decent guitar even then do upgrades and you’re still ahead in saving dollars and you have a player.

The music teacher even has quite a few dollars left in her budget and now looking at amps. They have several solid state amps yet she wants to purchase a few more. With the cash she has left I was letting her listen to these one watt black stars tube amps we have for home also we use one watt Marshall’s that’s all we need for the house perhaps we could find used black stars and Marshall one watts on reverb.com.