NGD Harley Benton EX-84 LH

Bought a B-stock Harley Benton. (€265 and that aint even the cheapest HB guitars)

in short; impressed by its quality and playability, it’s growing on my fast.

It came with a bad setup and flimsy strings but I can fix that myself
Solid built, straight neck, flawless fretwork and tons of mojo.
invites to chug. first guitar ever with active pickups and I don’t dislike for our heavy metal/thrash/punk band ,au contraire.

It’s a 'smaller size" explorer, bit of a neck dive but that was said in the reviews.
Since reviews/YT was raving about this one, I had to try it. I had a voucher burning in my pocket so yeah why not, while we wait for the custom V.

The neck is painted but it doesn’t slow you down because it’s swift and smooth.

I was considering locking tuners but it stayed quite well in tune for a whole set during first band rehearsal. curious what a set of thicker strings will do.

Impressed by the quality and fun level of this guitar.
It only adds to my opinion that beginners should check HB guiotars but more experienced players will enjoy them as well; as project platform, as backup or as fun machine like in this case :smiley:

Beign a neighbour to Germany, the guitar only took 2 days to arrive and shipping was free.

quick pic in the rehearsal room, the strap is a custom Holy Cow strap.
My guitar seems to have a darker, more black fretboard, which I prefer over the brown one in the picture. lucky me!

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Congratulations! It looks :+1::+1:

Congrats :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I nearly bought one of these some time ago (think it was maybe the black version with EMGs that I wanted) but it was long term out of stock so in the end I bought a different brand of Xplorer-style guitar in the end. They’ve definitely got a great reputation for an inexpensive guitar :+1:

Congratulations Lieven, guitar looks great!

Hope to see her in closest Clubs. :slight_smile:

Congrats Lieven! Although a ‘cutlass-shaped’ one might have suited you better :wink:
It makes sense to buy a guitar whilst you’re waiting for the custom one to be built! :rofl:
I’m still very happy with my HB Fusion II from a couple of years ago. Stainless steel frets, locking tuners & maple neck. I defaced it immediately, so I couldn’t sell it later on :laughing:
Great service from Thomann as well
When are we going to hear it ‘chug’ (whatever that means)?

Happy NGD :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: :partying_face:

I never expected that I can’t say “what a beautiful” twice in a row :upside_down_face:… while you (i just read…and I) don’t like a headless guitars, I also don’t like such a guitarbody ( unless you’re an aspiring teenager who starts playing metal :roll_eyes:… see that a lot in the past :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:.)

I wish you a lot of fun with it :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

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Happy NGD! Seems to be a smart guitar! Wish you lots of fun with it! :blush:

Happy NGD Lieven!

Happy NGD Lieven!!! Hope you have a great time with the new thrasher!!! :blush:

Tod

Oh heck yeah man. I bet James Hetfield from Metallica would love that guitar. I am almost sure he does not play a Harley Benton but it is dang close or does he?

I love it and your right, It’s got some sweet Mojo.

Chug away Lieven, chug away!

The Hb is clearly a hommage to his guitar, which is probably a $6000 Hetfield ESP Snakebyte :wink:

Meanwhile, I did some basic setup duties and threw on some decent strings.
Next step is tweak EQ a bit to the character of the guitar.

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