PlayabilityĪ good friend of mine reminds me (often) that a guitar is a tool and it doesn’t matter what it looks like. I’ll need to fix that, which I will do in another post. There is a <1mm gap on one side that you can actually use it to hold a pick. I’m not saying I could do any better – as my previous build experience shows. This does spoil it for me, its a shame really, thankfully it is only in places and not all the way around it. That is probably the worst out of all the edge issues. There is bleeding on the binding onto the body. When you get up close though, you can see where a £135 guitar can lose out on quality control. He was probably 6foot before carrying around one of these all the time! It weighs 10.1 pounds! If this is true to the weight of the original MadCat, then it’s no wonder Prince was short. I ordered mine on the 18th of February and it arrived on the 23rd March. The reviews are good, and it must be popular (or take a long time to make) as there is a 9-12 week wait now. Spec-wise, the TE-80 is pretty good, its got a solid ash body with a walnut stripe, a Canadian maple bolt-on neck, and a pair of Strat-style Alnico single coils. So by this, cheap doesn’t always mean it’s bad. The cabinet I use is Harley Benton and it sports a Celestion v30 speaker, and the whole thing costs only slightly more than the speaker alone. Harley Benton products are not expensive, and tend to score fairly well in reviews. The cheapest guitar I have ever bought (apart from a £30 Squier Telecaster I picked up at a garage sale). The “proper” ones now retail for anywhere from £2000-£4000 – far above my budget, but there are cheaper options – such as a dodgy DHGate Chinese copy, or a Harley Benton TE-80 NT Deluxe, which is what we are looking at today. He was a musical genius, and while his stage guitars were often very curious designs, his go-to guitar was an 80’s Hohner (or one of many copies of it he had made). He was the kind of rarity that does not occur often in life.
Harley benton te 80 nt deluxe series review update#
I'll update of course, better than no information. I dreamed of these teles (rosewood and prinz) rare, and I jumped at the chance, you can do so given the quality of execution / assembly.īoth have taxed me not even 300 roros it's just Christmas in April! She is on a hit, I probably will change the pickups for warmer / consistent but that's just my usual habit. The two together is funky of course, but more acid than usual and downright a feast for the rhythmic Kiss f (no, not Gene Simmons and co!) This is normal for strat pickups actually. The acute against micro is less incisive than typical tele, and lacks a bit of consistency. The tone is less successful than that of rosewood but is more or less usable (early in the race you get a fixed-wah kind of fun). The sound is rather empty "inside" and hot / severe, and weaker than her sister.Ĭonnected (Ibanez tvr5) this is not the usual plan Tele.įinished smooth neck pickup here is sharper and louder, more accurate too. If Ben is a Tele so not so bad ergonomics level casually. Unlike her sister rosewood prinz weighs the dead ass, it looks like a les paul it surprises. The body is beautiful, it is a double binding therefore quite uncomfortable compared to a vintage type.Įverything is very well done (it is very far from F. 2 wilkinson pickups (alnico from Toto) strat without buzz in position 2. Always better than nothing.Ħ Fixed bridge bridges such strat, strings through the body. The frets are fairly thin, 21, and well laid / finished so no extra work.
She has just arrived with his sister rosewood.Ĭhannel maple fingerboard, satin varnish, C well rounded in the leg, very similar to my harley Jazzmaster.