Harley Benton's 2024 prototype guitars and basses from Guitar Summit 2023! Specs, dates, prices...

At Guitar Summit 2023, Harley Benton showed up with more than 10 prototype guitars and basses none of us have never seen before! So, this is a quick rundown of the best of them before they’re released for real in 2024.

Check out the Harley Benton 25th anniversary sale here: https://www.thomann.de/intl/social_ha...

The most exciting for me – and I think for many – is the ST-182 Plus, which is quite clearly a take on the Fender Tom DeLonge signature Fender Stratocaster.

But, look past the obvious inspiration, and I think this guitar will be for more than just Blink-182 fans: the neck on these things is spectacular for starters. It’s flamed roasted maple with stainless steel frets (which are beautifully rounded at the edges) and a compound 12-16” fingerboard, and it feels supremely comfortable to play. Then you’ve got a Babicz hardtail bridge and a Tesla humbucker with a single volume knob. Perfect for punk rock, then, but also an awesome modding machine, and it comes in some stunning colors too.

Then there’s the ST-Modern Plus HSS Strat types. These have similar specs and necks to the ST-182, but they have an HSS set of Tesla pickups (with a coil split for the humbucker) and a Babicz vibrato bridge. There are loads of colors and also left-handed models on the way in 2024 and – like the ST-182 – these should come in at around €300/€400.

We also saw the Dullahan II, and although there wasn’t much info to be had about this one, the prototype on display looked and felt fantastic.

There were also some interesting looking new basses, and I was particularly taken with the HP-50 semi-hollow offerings. These 70s-inspirefd basses feature a single Stingray-esque humbucking pickup and look and feel the business!

Oh, and for the truly adventurous, there was a 7-string bass too – the BZ-7000. That one’s actually out as of now, if it floats your boat!

Harley Benton BZ-7000 II NT 7-string bass: https://thmn.to/thoprod/521731?offid=...

So, watch Bene from Harley Benton showing us around the booth, have a listen to the specs, and tell me which of these guitars you’re most looking forward to trying in 2024! For me, as a huge boyhood Blink-182 fan, there’s definitely an ST-182 in my future – probably in the Silver Sparkle finish – but the ST-Modern Plus guitars also looked fantastic, especially the Flame Blue Burst one!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Introduction
01:22 Harley Benton 25th Anniversary guitars
01:45 ST-Modern Plus prototypes
02:08 ST-182 Plus prototypes
02:33 HB-50 bass prototypes
03:00 DC-7000 7-string bass
03:23 ST-182 Plus discussion
06:22 ST-Modern Plus discussion
08:07 Dullahan II prototype discussion
09:41 HB-50 bass prototypes
10:23 BZ-7000 discussion
11:27 Final thoughts and the Harley Benton 25th Anniversary sale

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