My 15 year old son just bought this guitar, it was a "B"stock, and cost around 185 euros, about $200.00, first impression was that the fit and finish was flawless, and it was ready to go right out of the box, someone mentioned something about the "skunk stripe" just being painted on, it's not, it's a real inlay as are the fret board dots, someone also said something about the bridge pickup sounding to "twangy", it's bright, and something you would expect in a 60's style pick up, the sound is legit, and true to the early surf guitars, any way the kid loves his new guitar, and I'm happy that he got himself a decent guitar for the bucks.
@heliopijpe
5 жыл бұрын
When I was 4 years old I once saw a guitar exactly like this in a shop and it kick started my love for guitars :-)
@knowitall1694
5 жыл бұрын
My genuine 1976, made is USA, Fender Stratocaster had exactly the same issue: the idiots at Fender lacquered OVER the frets. The paint eventually came off and often stuck under my finger nails. That was very painful.
@hugoherrejon3272
7 жыл бұрын
oh my god, it holds tune like a champ!
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
i hope everyone enjoys my poor "Apache" :D What do you think of this guitar?
@CJ-rf9jm
7 жыл бұрын
Your apache is fine. Do like that guitar too though I've always be a strat-head.
@jumpingman8160
7 жыл бұрын
I wanted to see the Guitar Bass VS the most :(
@giordano0campisi
7 жыл бұрын
Cory Mura nice Apache and nice review! I really don't like bridge pick up sound, very thin, as you mentioned. Listening the videos It doesn't look better than the st57 DG, but we trust you when you say the you feel It more resonant and with a better sustain. Is v-shape profile more confortable (for your hand) than c-shape one?
@CJ-rf9jm
7 жыл бұрын
Btw that reminds me there is a modification thats quite easy to link up the bridge pickup on this style of guitar to 1 of the tone pots. On mine I usually use the pot thats for the neck pickup since bridge n neck aren't on at the same time with the standard wiring. So if you find the bridge with too much trouble it can be adjusted.
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
David a little patience please
@mickhinton
3 жыл бұрын
ptfe tape is fine to a point, if you look at USA strats in a shop you will usually see a round bit of tape over the trem arm hole, that is actually to stop a small sprint from falling out, you can buy these small springs seperately (even on ebay).
@sugaryawroc
Жыл бұрын
Know this vid is around 5 years old, but the HARLEY BENTON ST-59 HM Fiesta Red is still available today but with changes. Noted that the soft V shape neck you mention has now been changed to a C radius. I have no clue why I purchased it but I purchased a Harley Benton ST-62DLX VW.. The guitar came played it out the box, Put it in a case with its Harley benton tag still attached never bothered doing a set up and its remained in the case now for well over 4 years.. Never played. The Harley Benton ST-59 HM available today personally I wouldn't touch it but thats me.. Soft V necks are the best. To play at gigs or on the street these guitars are OK, I wouldn't dare go out with a Fender especially a vintage one. If i could get this ST-59 with the V shape at a reasonable cost I might buy one but certainly not the one available today 2023.
@perthguitar5160
7 жыл бұрын
Great demo Cory. Sounds bloody good to me.
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
+Perth Guitar if you say so then its really good. thanks perth!
@hans-peterduve7932
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! Very informative and appropriate evaluation. With a little bit handycraft talent its changeable in a good strat-copy. To my opinion good wood of body and neck (good dryied and not deforming over the time) is the main reqirement. Frets and adjustment can be done and hardware changed.
@ColonelRPG
3 жыл бұрын
I bought one of these in early 2020 and the guitar is slightly different: - they didn't paint over the frets - the inlays are correctly aligned - the bridge screws are golden - the tremolo is floating a little bit - the low E string tuner aligns nicely with the nut - the wiring is different and you can control the tone of the bridge with Tone 2 when in position 1 - you have an extra string tree in the headstock for the 3rd and 4th strings - it has the HB logo in the headstock where yours says "the zombie sword" or whatever is written there - it also says "Tribute Series" instead of "TB Series" - it comes with a serial number stamped on the back, as well as "made in indonesia" and other smallprint info (this also came in my late 2020 Harley Benton Amarok-7) where yours has a clean back of the headstock - it has a glued fretboard rather than a one piece neck, which is pretty interesting because the fretboard has some wood figuring to it, it looks nice, but the skunk stripe is real and not painted on or lacquered, although it might be just a shallow inlay. The guitar is really striking and plays really great, the V neck is a standout. My only downside is the staggered polepieces in the pickups that make the guitar really hard to balance, I found. So I just realigned the polepieces and not it balances properly, and sounds just the same (to my ears).
@Inspector-71
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info, is it a full thickness body? Also, I saw on another comment(on a review of the HB ST62) that the pots are full size & there is 2 tone caps, do you know if that is true? Thanks again, Happy New Year
@SmugSuspenders
5 жыл бұрын
4:18 That sounds like a good feature
@Jshortca1
7 жыл бұрын
Looks very nice. Try playing with the pickup height if you don't like the sound of the bridge. Cheers They don't wire the tone pot to the bridge because that is how strats were wired in the '50s. All modern strats the bridge pickup is wired to the tone knob.
@scottfain3629
6 жыл бұрын
Fender makes a ball bearing/spring that goes into the "trem arm hole" BEFORE you screw in the trem arm itself...holds the arm wherever you place it....Fender also DOES spray final coat of lacquer over top of frets, as you said it appeared to be...you were correct....pain in ass, but Thomann is doing it "correctly" (as Fender does it, I mean)....I have a shitload of guitars, ...maybe, 16? or 17? Anyway, I HAD to try one of these Harley B's after ALL the hype I had heard... I wanted another set-neck, Les Paul type so I ordered a HB SC-450Plus Vintage model, LP clone, w/ Mahogany back&neck, & a Maple cap; & (advertised as-a) AAAA Maple veneer in Cherry-Burst finish...BEAUTIFUL guitar with the 4-A Highly-figured Maple top....Well, while swapping p'ups, I scraped the finish off of a spot inside the bridge p'up pocket, & was friggin GOB-SMACKED to find that this guitar has a Full-on 5/8" thick book-matched slab, of beautiful Flamed Maple...NOT a veneer, as I fully expected it to be...I mean, I live in Florida USA & this guitar was $180 U.S., DELIVERED! Delivery was $30 of the $180!! It is unreal, after a quick, "once-over" fret level/polish job, tidy-up the nut/bridge/intonation & lower the action...None of which was TRULY a necessity, its just what I do for fun & DOES make em play better...I build guitars as a hobby) & ALL new Bourns potentiometers & switchcraft switches, etc...& swapped the stock p'ups for a set of Alnico 2, PAF low(-er) output Humbuckers that I LOVE & I already had on hand. Although, I have to say, the stock Wilkinson humbuckers ARE pretty damn good. Today, its my favorite guitar, & I would put it up against ANY Gibson guitar, as far as sound & playability - Full-stop! The construction is actually about equal to Gibson's these days too, unfortunately
@wesmatron
6 жыл бұрын
HB... Putting Chibsons out of business
@aaronwilliams7988
4 жыл бұрын
And chenders
@michaelfortney4838
4 жыл бұрын
and cipiphone
@thomasr.5443
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelfortney4838 indeed. Don't laugh at me but believe it or not: I got myself the HB ST assembly kit and the finished guitar plays better and smoother for 79 bucks than my Chipiphone LP Standard Plustop Pro for 365 bucks 😱
@Peasmouldia
5 жыл бұрын
I've watched a few reviews of HB ST guitars, yours is one of the better ones, and far superior to HB backed reviewers with frenetic presentation styles. Thank you sir.
@kevinvanrillaer5965
7 жыл бұрын
Great review, Cory! I didn't like the clean tones very much (sounded too 'twangy'), but the distorted sound seemed nice!
@antonioj4746
7 жыл бұрын
Sounds incredible for the price!
@peetena1481
7 жыл бұрын
Man if this came in Daphne blue I'd be all over it like Oprah on a baked ham. Sweet looking guitar. Nice job as always on the review Cory !!
@moontheloon1969
7 жыл бұрын
she looks lovely quite orangey
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
yep,got a good tad orange!
@CJ-rf9jm
7 жыл бұрын
I'm with you on the bar either wobbling or drooping outta reach when I need it. theres some like the wilkensen vintage style that have a set screw in the bridge (uses same hex key as bridge saddles) that holds the bar in place no weeble wobble n can put it right where you want it. I keep it close to my hand so I don't hafta go all over to grab it.
@dainiusvysniauskas2049
7 жыл бұрын
Yup, that's the tremolo used in CST-24T.
@johnnorth9355
6 жыл бұрын
Looked like you were having far too much fun Cory :)
@grayfool
7 жыл бұрын
Your Apache is better than mine. Good review, interesting to see how it arrived. Not so good considering the price. Otherwise looks and sounds very nice. Thanks.
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
Gray Fool yeah i really hope i just got a faulty model and others don't got this problem. THEN it's an excellent guitar and the price fits better
@grayfool
7 жыл бұрын
Jace Beleren just the dirty neck and a very poor setup on arrival. Check out the unboxing video to see what I mean. Like Cory says, no big deal to fix really.
@SmugSuspenders
5 жыл бұрын
My Apache is bigger than yours
@philo426
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah and to add insult to injury,Fender announced that they will be charging more for rose wood fingerboarded Strats!Not cool!
@olafunger6454
2 жыл бұрын
Mega Sound
@calebproductions5970
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds good can't believe they sell this guitar that cheap
@69steve2003
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review, sounds nice and I like the idea of the 'V'd neck. The new model has the very thin matt lacquer on the neck which is ok for playing but is so thin it wears out within weeks around the edge of the fretboard (I know, I have one of their TE52's) and doesn't look so good on the fretboard (where it will also wear back to bare wood quickly) or headstock where it just looks plain wrong. It wont look like a 50 year old strat within a year or so, it will just look cheap and nasty.
@davidkastin4240
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful guitar. 👍🎸🎸
@bobbya8622
3 жыл бұрын
Great review! Thanks.
@tgdb4968
7 жыл бұрын
I tip my hat to those harmonics dude
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
+Axe Thrash thx!
@henrysmith5604
6 жыл бұрын
Interesting review my neck was fine I just had to setup the tremolo system
@Inspector-71
2 жыл бұрын
Very nice review
@savanaviolenta
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds decent.
@rickymendez9825
Жыл бұрын
A bit of delay please, the way Hank Marvin does it
@mpexus
7 жыл бұрын
Isnt the Bridge raised? It should be seating on the Guitar Body... meaning the screws were tighten too much.
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
i raised it,like i explained in the video. otherwise i couldnt show the tuning stability of the trem. also i like my trems that i can uptrem the b-string a whole tone
@andyjay4695
6 жыл бұрын
I liked the only HB I played in person, and I'm planning to get one of their LP clones but I just can't get over the headstocks on their Fender clones :/ Sounds good tho
@francvernet307
7 жыл бұрын
The pickguard shape looks a bit off, doesn't it? The rounding above the tremolo doesn't look as smooth as it should be....
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
+Franc Vernet i know exactly what spot you mean.. yeah could be smoother there! good eye
@gln8871
3 жыл бұрын
Tremolo replacement is fender?
@horstmar7736
7 жыл бұрын
As much as I like HB, the singecoil guitars just sound cheap to me :/
@philo426
7 жыл бұрын
I am going to order a white one.I am pissed that Thoman will not ship guitars with Rosewood fretboards to the U S because of some dumb new law!
@savanaviolenta
7 жыл бұрын
Thank god I'm from Europe where the Main store is and I have no problem ordering and Thomann will ship every rosewood fretboard equipped guitar.
@voiceofreason8594
4 жыл бұрын
Is there any way you can provide neck thickness measurements at the nut and 12th fret? (not width) with a digital caliper. I find the Fender soft V necks to be too thin for my liking. I had a Japanese Deep V Fender neck that was Fantastic
@goss1961
4 жыл бұрын
FYI...strats were originally designed for country music players and back then amplifiers struggled with producing enough treble to be heard in a band. Fenders were made to have mellow 'rhythm' sound and a lead sound as clear and trebly as possible, which 1950 country players wanted. This is why strat bridge pickups had no tone control. It's silly that they still make them that way.
@pepedecoatza
6 жыл бұрын
Exçuse me, can you tell me what else did you do besides removing the middle spring for the floating tremolo? Thanks
@CoryMura
6 жыл бұрын
+jose hernandez nothing else really
@richardsyoutubechannel995
4 жыл бұрын
1 thing i do know is that not fiesta red
@johnmonroney8614
6 жыл бұрын
the skunk stripe is not where they put in the truss rod. the truss gors under the fret board. that stripe is probably just a stain stripe
@kimhansen6384
6 жыл бұрын
You are certainly wrong. It is a one-peice neck, so there is no way you could put the trussrod in from the top. That is why all one-piece necks have a skunk stripe.
@TheBbtlegit
3 жыл бұрын
I think I will purchase one of these. Do you recommend it.
@chrisnott1064
7 жыл бұрын
hi when i see the lot of (harley benton)thomann guitars i wonder one think:are you sale representative for thomann;)?
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
bob morane no, not at all. i buy them because they are good. i don't get them for free etc. 😉
@chrisnott1064
7 жыл бұрын
i spent one week watching your demo and them of nick and the states and i wolud have any of them! but my wife kill me!!(i already have 5 guitars and not waf for her;)) . damn !when i think that i must to change the shock absorbing of my car and for the price i could buy 3 axes! i'm sad:(
@jerrymorganjr
5 жыл бұрын
You need lots of reverb!!!! Otherwise sounded great!
@jtoler2444
5 жыл бұрын
Cory how would you compare the soft v neck profile to the more standard c on the st 57?
@AndrewAHayes
6 жыл бұрын
I noticed the top of the skunk stripe looked a little untidy and also the E string was making contact with the headstock possibly because of a shaping error, sounds crisp though, usually, the guitars that you review don't have many or any build or setup faults but this one is full of faults
@majkel954
2 жыл бұрын
is it better than st-62? Is it worth to buy st-59?
@xforeverknightx
3 жыл бұрын
which would you say is better this or the 57DG ?
@forreststead7954
6 жыл бұрын
Cory....would you know if the neck pocket on this will accept Fender Neck?
@MrAngelo1955
7 жыл бұрын
hello cory Deine Meinung zu der St95 würde mich interessieren und zwar
@jimihendrix3144
6 жыл бұрын
was willst du von einer so billigen gitarre verlangen,da mußt du einiges einstellen oder austauschen,evtl eine besser kaufen,es gibt von h.benton einige gute geigen,am besten ausprobieren jeff
@tobibo5102
7 жыл бұрын
Great review, Cory. How would you compare this guitar to your ST-57?
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
Tobi Bo i send the st57 back after the review. i see they changed the 'problems' i mentioned in the review and the st57 got now a not so yellow neck and a single ply pickguard etc. it should be now similar to this guitar and just different in the looks. but the st57 i had was not as good as this one, although it didn't had the dirty frets. this here feels nicer and sounds even better
@trashlives93
7 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to see you review a guitar from BaCH guitars (google them). They are a brand similiar to Harley Bentons.
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
Petri Honkonen i know them but aren't they hard to get nowadays or even stopped? have to google them again yeah. thanks
@trashlives93
7 жыл бұрын
Hey. First - sorry for the long answering time! www.bachmusik.com/en/music-instruments here is their web store in case you want to check them out. Looks like they're still selling some instruments. It would be cool to see other brands similiarly priced to Harley Benton on your channel.
@alessandrogiangio4837
7 жыл бұрын
Thanx a lot Cory for this new and useful review. Just a question: how do you rate Roswell pickups comparing to Wilkinsons? Do you think Harley Benton decided ust to add two different sounding strat- style guitars comparing to ST-62 or do you thin they will drop wilkinson-armed ST with Roswell equipped ones? Cheers
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
+Alessandro Giangio hard to answer any of this honestly. the roswells in the xt22 are excellent... the roswells in the sc custom FR were not to my taste. comparing the xt22 roswells to my sc custom wilkinsons for example (yeah different guitar too) i liked the roswell even better. hard to tell.. really depends more in the whole guitar. maybe i can make direct comparisons and change pickups in a guitar. i don't know if they will get rid of wilkinson pickups. for now it just looks to me as if they wanted more options... wilkinson got not much pickup options.. roswell got maaaany options
@alessandrogiangio4837
7 жыл бұрын
thanx a lot Cory. Have a wonderful Easter with Your Family!
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
+Alessandro Giangio thanks! you too!
@jenslund6152
7 жыл бұрын
Hello Cory Mora! Will you pleace go to Steen Spotlight here on You Tube and listen to Summertime, and then you know why not to buy a Harley, so sorry.
@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb
3 жыл бұрын
Take the ads off
@tottebald3166
7 жыл бұрын
is the neck as thick and wide as on the st-62? i know the soft v profile might feel a little thinner
@CoryMura
7 жыл бұрын
+totte bald hm... can just compare to the st-59 dg and its the same thickness as far as i csn see. hadn't a st-62 yet
@TONY-gj3jl
6 ай бұрын
Quanto è il raggio del manico?
@briansmith3051
6 жыл бұрын
Hello Cory. With what did you clean frets and fingerboard
@CoryMura
6 жыл бұрын
with super high grid micro mesh pads from thomann..they got a whole set for 14 euro i think. especially great for the frets. it gets rid of micro scratches. the fretboard needs naphta and a towel. but you could also get rid of little scratches with thrse pads
@michakwiatkowski1313
6 жыл бұрын
What about string action ?
@dawoud8013
3 жыл бұрын
the neck color is too yellow .... ;(
@jeffreyprice773
6 жыл бұрын
What is the fretboard radius ? Thanks.
@AdrianoGosta-fk6qm
16 күн бұрын
Somiglia vagamente ad una fender.
@alexnrock2805
6 жыл бұрын
Hallo Cory Mura könntest du vielleicht weiter Videos auf !ein Deutschen Video kanal machen das wäre *ehr nett
@hlaf5018
6 жыл бұрын
This or st 57 DG
@tomrabbani
6 жыл бұрын
They are basically the same guitar :) So the question left is: Knopfler or Gilmour? :)))
@rdale458
7 жыл бұрын
String size?
@marcocappucci202
7 жыл бұрын
what´s the song at the beginning?
@Bruce-1956
7 жыл бұрын
1) it's not a song, no words 2) the tune is , The Shadows - Apache. Cory even said the name!!!
@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb
3 жыл бұрын
Too many ads on this channel - you spend too much time waiting for ads to finish
@CANNELLALINESOUND
7 жыл бұрын
If you want a quality you have here :www.thomann.de/gb/fender_squier_affinity_strat_orange.htm
@mariuszklint1602
7 жыл бұрын
hahahhahaha very good joke
@johnmonroney8614
6 жыл бұрын
sounds like its dying
@svenstan600
7 жыл бұрын
cory mura bist du deutscher ?
@jimihendrix3144
6 жыл бұрын
viel englisch kann der nicht flüssig sprechen,
@Thomas-xs2kq
2 жыл бұрын
@@jimihendrix3144 der echte Jimi Hendrix war cool und tolerant....
@Deonete
4 жыл бұрын
I still consider Fender to be unmatched. Clean, massive sound. The difference would be like comparing the size of a dog to an elephant. There is nothing comparable to Fender . For those who have not heard well, cannot assess the quality, the sound is good. Very poor, dull sound.
@brendanbehan2289
6 жыл бұрын
Pickups are crap, I would replace for Seymour Duncan
@Wurstkiste
5 жыл бұрын
Aua!!! Profitip; zeig nur , was Du kannst, nicht was Du nicht kannst! Sauber spielen, dann kommt die Geschwindigkeit! Nicht anders herum! Das wird nix, glaub mir!
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