Showing posts with label control cavity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label control cavity. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Cavity search on the Harley Benton

It is always worth having a look at the control cavities of any guitar because it's often very telling of how much care was taken to build the instrument. The cheaper the gear, the messier those normally invisible cavities can be. And that's also where it is the easiest to evaluate the quality of the timber used, because surfaces are generally roughly routed, not sanded, not painted or finished in any way. So here, based on the price point, I was expecting some sort of a disaster.
The volume and tone pots' cavity
The toggle switch cavity
And I have to say...