Having bought a few guitars by mid-2014, I was conscious of a desire to understand more about how guitars work, and how to maintain them. I also had the idea of having a cheap guitar as a test bed for experiments like swapping pickups. The logical answer to both of these was to buy and make a kit guitar.
To cut a long story short, I bought a Harley Benton Double Cut (SG-style) kit from Thomann and finished and assembled it. I won’t go into the details here because I’ve already written a series of articles about this build. You can find the first article here.
Specifications
- Bolt-on neck
- Body: Solid wood
- Neck: Maple
- Double action truss rod
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Trapeze fretboard inlays
- 22 Frets
- Scale: 628 mm / 24.75″
- Nut width: 43 mm
- Pickup: 2 Humbuckers
- 2 Volume, 2 Tone control
- 3 way switch
- Hardware: Chrome
- DieCast machine heads
- 009 – 042 Strings
