Harley Benton Bass Guitar Kit P-Style

Asian origin.
Basswood body (4 pieces for me), well sanded.
Maple neck with very light matt varnish, rosewood, rectangular head to work. It is very late. Means shrinking ...
Nut brittle ......
Key Bridge and very correct
Micro precision but with specific size (larger than the original)
Setting tone, volume and jack (same precision Fender)
Strings tasteless

UTILIZATION

On a purely technical level, it is in the low end with some advantages. The neck is really nice, fine and fast. The truss rod is effective and takes the road with ropes as 105. The hoop is much less convincing with two or three shorter than the handle (I chipotte) frets but against certain frets are lower! Not terrible, especially when it is the first (you know the pieces without FA please?). It's a shame because I would be able to still have a fairly low action if the finish was better.
To tune the strings, you have to play with the nut crumbling every time. It's light but not to do it too often. The six Allen screws for action can only be resolved when the strings are not strained.
After setting the technical problems, we made fun playing. The bass is not too heavy but still feels that a real wood in his hands. The finish you choose for the handle part in its sensations.

SOUNDS

I found a pickguard on a flea market and I really wanted to put it except that .... The pickups are not delivered to the size of Fender pickups! It works with their white pickguard (a little cheap in the cup) but that's all. the microphone itself does not fit either in a microwave Fender cover (it is vicious ...) So I bought a standard micro precision.

For strings origins, combined with micro Fender, it remains soft. on the other hand, with D'Addario EXL 160, it gets better: The rich in the bass with lots of percussion. Lacks a bit of sustain.

Electronics plays his role well, it feels real differences between muffled and very bright sound (with breath anyway). It lacks a bit of shade in the volume (we pass immediately from 0/10 to 3/10).

I wanted the sound of Radiohead and Pink Floyd and I found (in a storm!)

OVERALL OPINION

€ 90 Low 60 euros micro, 60 euros bomb varnish, paint and other Fondur, besides the jigsaw that Crame ... I made drips in my painting which is itself not homogeneous, small bursts of dust in the paint, so a cut head ... er ... craft. In short, it does not run in there in a purely musical goal. It is an object to which it is attached, something that looks far if you do not want q'on mocks us! And this is obviously no comparison made with a low A to Z factory, however small it may be.
I recommend the experience to those who have already enough tinkering or those who, like me, are curious to see it all work and on arrival were a nice object that holds the road but that is unsaleable (and laugh. ..!)

- The country of manufacture must be a prcis on the board, honest I bte the Mount for some time then the dj box ...
- 22 frets, 1 single precision micro style
- Bridge Fender Standard Basic
- 1 volume, 1 Tone (one is a copy of precision, so ...)
- The handle is quite thick and wide (57mm 12th of freight), again the Manir a "real" precision. The strings supplied are of good quality.
- I prcise that everything comes with a manual Retailer well (even the Manir to paint a body) and on mounting rglages, but in English only

I put 8 because it has not break bricks but the key is widely respected.

UTILIZATION

- So despite its little overweight, the handle is quite enjoyable and has a habit of playing on the sleeves enough for the transition was all alone. The rest is a matter of taste and above all size hands / fingers.

- The sharp you really love them to get them, or have small hands, in which case the handle will be uncomfortable.

- In the form we are still and always on a MODEL precision, the balance is good, the body has all the same its small weight. Say Thomann (Speaking of a Harley Benton, manufactured, or import from it) does not lsine on wood. It is quite pais.

- To the sound of it Graoua the precision, with a greasy Tone zero, much like snapping a punky tone 10. I did not hear much bass this type of "sharp ears," but for the price (98 E) one can say it's the characters bte.

So I put 9 for all the sound and not EMDU typ.

SOUNDS

- I play anything and everything so we will say that this bass complmentaire me (with my Job and my Squier Yam 6c)

- Plays on my SWR Silverado, so I think the sound of the amp does not dnatur my decision, on the contrary ...

- I play in all its directory, its fat for a good blues feel to the cigar and whiskey, rock bottom for Tone "nervquot; (blink 182 for one example among many others, and Tone in the middle for most of the time, allowing few shots at slap.

7 J'met because c'tait for discovering a little of his P-bass that I finally rarely useful. But only my opinion ...

OVERALL OPINION

- I can mount used for a month, but since then disassemble a custom almost ncssaire on the machine.

- What I like is the fun of customization.

- The report quality Price is correct.

- Repeat this choice ... it's only to get complicated. Let's say I only hear good on Thomann and I think I'm part of the 10,000 client that had a product bacl. I mean in the sense that the small screws and springs that are set and maintain the microphones have never seen the color of the card sent to me t. Thus the custom started by the hack to fix the microphone (too lazy to send them too, I like challenges: p). Second harmonic level rglages is bordered on the ropes but honnte THE FIRST !!!!, box so that makes me a fairly high action.
Action high + handle = pais Thurs tiring. It c'tait for "violin".

The electronic ... Mal soud! the volume knob has seen some revisions of tin to finally work, if not its bottom c'tait permanent. When tinkering is a dtail. Thomann on its website recommends this product for people with just a few of the same concepts of "DIY music." I confirm thousand times.

So I will recommend any fawn postriori Thoto stuff on, because as I said I think I'm wrong but there's tomb when even a lack of lightweight srieux the MODEL I reu, which he claimed a STRID 3.

Precision Bass, all there is more classic. There should be a lot of stuff to mount it (careful, it is not saving but we laugh a lot

# Different screwdriver
# Saw & Files
# Emery paper (wet and dry) 60, 100, 220, 400, 800, 2000
# Sanding block (cork, it works and is cheap)
# Gummed cloth (cloth tack: super convenient, it takes more)
# A bomb primers (primer) (I have done without: error ...)
# A bomb colored lacquer (automotive type)
# A bomb of clear lacquer (automotive type)
# A drill with a 2mm drill bit
# The polishing compound
# The guitar polish
# Some clean rags
# A big piece of wood (for hanging)
# An old coat hanger (to hang)
# Screws
# An eraser to polish the edges / pencil
# Scotch Paint
# + A bucket with hot water (paint)
# A paint mask
# Card type "credit card"
# A soldering iron is better
# A vise ...

A pretty good site to understand how to mount:
http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/kitbuild.html
and page 46 of the fender mag 5 for the set
http://www.fenderfrance.com/presse.php


UTILIZATION

It's really nice to ride. It takes one week plus a week of drying at all.

I know nothing violin and I'm pretty spot of the instrument. sounds like a bass and it is not difficult to play. (Should just right set). The finishing touches are tops, but I know anything farts ... it was I who did it The neck is nice, it sounds right, it does not frieze.

SOUNDS

The sound is quite correct. I tried it on my SR Technology JAM 150 + and a pocket pod and it was fine. (I'm not a bassist)

OVERALL OPINION

I just finish it. I think it's a great value for money for the pleasure of mounting a first instrument. Obviously we are not saving compared to the model that fitted all costs 12 euros less I had to spend at least 50 euros tools / supplies for the mount ... And I have bunch of stuff.

Note: I did it delivered in Germany (it was folded in 4 days). He missed the doc and a button strap. The phone, he immediately sent me the doc (in English) by email. It is very good. I received 2 strap buttons, 3 days later (still in Germany). the customer service is TOP. (Me I have always had a super SAV Thomann, returning the same stuff because I was not satisfied)

I would do without the choice problem. I wonder if I will not do like a Start! In sunburst this time