Bently Series 10

I have had this BASS for a couple of years and i dont want to make it sound like "its horrible" or "its cheap" its a great guitar IF you replace the pickups, wiring etc. and buy new strings. Mine is like a Fender P-Bass setup, 21 frets with typical 2pickups (one for E&A the other for D&G) and a large pickup for all strings (near bottom) thats like the one on the Fender P-Bass 5 string same type of setup but with 3 nobs, i dont know what for because the previous owner thought he was an electrical genius and screwed up the wiring, but i think its 2 volume(for top and bottom pickups) and 1 tone
as for the body ITS GREAT one word could sumerize it up SOLID, ive banged it around so much and its still in great shape, its REALLY HEAVEY though because its a multiple ply body with a maple neck, it gave me a neck cramp the first time i played it

Is great for the school performances i do because my school doesnt have an acoustic bass so my bass gives a very acoustic sound without giving the metal tone off the strings, but other than that very hard to play, but if you work at it and go to a good bass its so easy, so its a good beginner bass. though it does have a litlle too much feedback so I sugest TO REPLACE ALL ELECTRICAL PARTS because the stock ones are crap, its a good idea since its a good body, i am using a WOLF amp (8in, 50watts) it doesnt sound that great, but ive used an old Peavey at school (15in 200 watts) and sounds much better, so part of my problem is the amp because a great feature thats not to good on a low powered amp is it gives a VERY DEEP bass sound but on the other hand with the bottom pickup it sounds very metalic, but it buzzes like crazy, way too much feedback with the bottom pickup
so all in all if you get new strings and new parts it will osund a lot better, which im planning to do, ive replaced the nobs and strings but not pickups yet
so i give it 7

i give it a 9 on the body as told why in my other paragraphs its VERY SOLID, its got bad factory pickups and wiring(6). nice paint job which deserves an 8
if you refurbish it it is a good beginner bass, but for the more experienced its great for playing hard because it can take it, so i give it 7 in playability

ive played this bass in a couple performances, and it broke once because of my bad wiring job, but it worked great for Musicals that i played in, i dont know about performing all the time because ive been rewiring it scince i got it and now that ive just recently figure out how to wire it correctly i dont know how it would hold up, but it is a VERY STURDY bass and it has lasted at least 7 years and hte neck has never needed an ajustment and it is solid so if i dropp it or bang it around i know it will still be in one peice

WHO THE HELL IS BENTLY AND WHERE ARE THEY?? so far for me there is no customer support

overall by all my comments and is present condition it deserves a 7 but i am going to REPLACE ALL THE ELECTRICAL PARTS because of a cheap factory setup, which i recomend everyone to do of you know how to do it
i love this bass it just take a little work and its great

I posted earlier...I was the one who rated it with all ones... I'd would like to explain why i gave it such a bad rating...At the time it was the only guitar i had and i just hated it... I had really outgrown the guitar and i needed a new one...well i bought a fender mex. strat for $200 and now that i don't have to constanly play the bently, it does not bother me as much as it used to...

I'm not going to go through this again...
same as others...
but i'd have to say probably about a three
now that i really think about it

Doesn't sound to bad when in tune...but there is still the problem with the 1st fret

I don't really like the action compared to my strat, but i've played expensive guitars with worse action...

If i fixed it up
it might turn out nice...
but the body is very solid

Not as my first review
if you could find i found another one for cheap then i might
buy it for parts

Got this thing third hand. I thought it was funny looking at first, but have come to like it. I think it was made in the late 80's. It looks like metallica's singer's guitar on the new video except it's got a V-body on the lower half. It was bright white but has yellowed. It's from Korea, 21 frets, 1 vol, 1 tone, 1 humbucker. Cheap factory pickup. not sure of neck wood, but it has the dark maple inlay, plywood body, and a cheap whammy bridge. I like it because it plays well, has quite high output, and stopped breaking my 1st string. Nice metalic twangy tone to the humbucker. I keep it close to the strings to get a good punch out of it.

Been playing a lot of distortion/fuzz effects with it. it also sounds good played clean. I made my own cord, and it has virtually no noise. love having the tone set low for good emphasis on low notes. Been using a crate 10 or something. I want to do a full rewire since the vol pot makes some click like static near zero. I think it is a good guitar, and plays good punk tunes.

One problem is I need to replace the saddles, and the nut. the neck is good and straight, but I need to replace the worn frets. was a bit sdirty inside and out, but I did a good cleaning job, and it works even better. Need new bridge screws, though. 2 are almost totally stripped. When I got it, the B string tuner skipped teeth so it was almost impossible to tune. I just took it apart, bent the base, and it worked.

I would always have a backup for any guitar if I could, but everything seems good and solid. very durable finish, and it's gotten knoked around a bit, and it seems to hold up good.

I need some info on Bently to see if I can get some direct part replacements. e-mail me at ice_master_992yahoo.com if you have any info.

I wish I had better, but this one is good enough for now. I'm going to invest in a good amp, then get another guitar. I like the odd shaping, which makes it unique. What it lacks in features, it makes up for in playability.

Gotta throw my 2 cents in on this one, since I read the other reviews. I owned one when I was 18. It was satin red finish, s-s-h, 5 way switch, 1 vol, 1 tone. Came with std. tremelo. I replaced with Floyd Rose and locking nut later on. STrat style.... sleek headstock, charvel style. Rosewood fretboard. Maple neck. 22 frets.. Bought it new for $200 with a chipboard case. THin neck. Plywood body. Basic tuners..

The pickups were semi microphonic... noisy. Used a Roland 10 wt. 8" speaker amp at the time... with a DOD Flanger. Bright sound. The humbucker had a quiet hum to it; the 2 singles buzzed like bees. Probably a bad wiring job at the factory.

Action was somewhat high... had to adjust the truss rod. Ok from there on out... Brand new but shipping dinged it a little, I think. Other wise, alright, great beginner's model..

How do you answer this? SOMe crappy guitars hold up longer than the owners, while some properly setup models fall apart on stage... Yes any guitar with proper care could last a gig. The hardware was basic but if homicidal urges were curtailed, you could play with it. Strap buttons; they fell off, I super glued 'em on again.

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It was ok, I sold it a year later to pay rent... but it was alright. Other reviews seem to trash it, but mine was ok, maybe cause I treated it well. It's all relative... Basic Charvel copy, kinda cool one at that. Play metal, jazz, fusion, ballads, on it, held up well.. miss it kinda, but these ones were ( and still are in pawn shops) a dime a dozen..

Uh this is a really bad guitar. It was the first that i've owned and i've played others and it's just horrible. It's got 21 frets. I bought it brand new with a crappy like 15 watt amp for like 300 bucks. I bought it from a local music store. I think i really got ripped off. IT's your basic it cheap stat set up. The pick up config. is S/S/H. I'm pretty sure i bought it new. 1 volume/2 tone and a 5 way selector. It's really cheap i opened it up and it's just horrible. It's falling a apart. Like other's when i first got it was really tight. I couldn't even put it in tune without having a string break. It really sucked but as time has passed with a little adjustment by me it's gotten looser. It doens't break strings anymore but that's probaly cuz i've gotten better. But it really has no features

The sound what sound. It doesn't suit any style it's just for the beginer. Even as a beginner guitar it bad. The guitar isn't worth the money. On the high E sting on the six fret there's some kind of problem and it doesn't play the note. It's just like it's muted. It's strange and it sucks.

The action is okay i guess but that's probably because i'm so damn used to the piss of crap. The fret board is horrible it's rough and the wood is horrible quality.

I would never play this at a gig period with or without a back up unless i had to. I was in a band and we used it cuz the other guitar sting broke and it worked out okay. But the guitar that we were using was crap anyways. Squire strat clone. akkk. The strap butten need tightening. Two of the tuning keys are gone they fell off so i have to use pliers to tune the guitar. It's really falling apart.

Never dealt with them bought it in a shop but about 5 monthes after i got it the nut broke and i had to get it replaced. It sucked and it cost like 50 dollars to replace. It's just been a bunch of trouble.

I've been playing for over a year and a half. And it's okay for a begginer i guess. I've played it through a lot of different amps the one i play it through now is really nice. It's a peavie head with a soldano speaker. The guitar doesn't sound that bad through it but that's just because it's an expensive set up. I own a 40 watt crate amp. IT's okay throught that amp. I wished before buying this i would have known about guitars. i should have got it with my dad who has a les paul but well that didn't happen. If it was stolen i'd be happy cuz then i could get my mom to buy me another guitar. I already know what i want so it'd be easy. I've compared it with other guitars and the only guitar that comes close is the cheap squire that the guitarist used in an old band i was.

Five Way Selector. Maple neck. Plywood body (yes, plywood). Pickup config: S/S/H. Knife Edge Tremolo with fine tuners. Locking nut.

I play mostly hard rock and metal. The Humbucker has a pretty reasonable rock/metal tone when the volume and the tone are turned all they way up. The neck single coils are basically worthless. The Floyd Rose rip-off tremolo actually does a great job of staying in tune for such a cheap implementation.

Factory setup was decent. The neck is maple but it has a red finish which gives it a unique look. The plywood body is outrageously heavy, easily the heaviest guitar I've played.

It's probably too heavy to play live. But it is pretty indestructable I've owned it for around 14 years and it still looks pretty new.

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I've been playing for about 15-16 years. I also have a home made Frankenstrat and PRS Custom 24. This instrument does not have the playability, versatility or tonality of the other two guitars, but it was insanely cheap compared to the other two also. As a reasonably priced beginning metal head's axe, it was great. Almost like if Charvel/Jackson (C/J was my young metalhead dream guitar) had made a 'Squier' series at the time I had purchased it, this is what it'd be. A good practice axe with a decent humbucker and tremolo for the young Warren DeMartini wannabe. If you're looking for a professional level instrument you'll have to look elsewhere and cough up the big bucks.

80s strat style guitar with 3 single coils, 5 way, 1 vol, 2 tone. Ebony fingerboard.

Good for clean chords and crackly distortion. Overall nice thin plasic guitar sound. Used with bassman amp with one radio shack speaker.

Beautiful blue metallic paint job with a smooth and lovely ebony fingerboard. No flaws until everthing fell off.

Woulduv withstood live playing. Not much of a chance of hardware lasting. Long lasting finish.

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Playing for sum 10 years. BUY THIS GUITAR FOR SURFTONES and anything else

Still unsure as to the place it was made, I really need to research this more. Basic strat setup. S/S/S. Natural yellowing on the pickguard and older plastic parts (possibly the first owner was a smoker? :) and the neck is starting to wear from my own use --I guess i've been the longest user of this guitar so far. Looked a bit odd after I replaced some plastic parts with new ones but it evened out eventually. Candy Apple Red-ish finish

I reviewed this guitar close to a year ago and have since then gotten it checked out and some stuff fixed and the kinks worked out, everything works great now. Since then i've also dropped a lot of money on new gear which includes a new amp. My older solid state amp didn't do this guitar justice at all, it just made it sound really thin and generic. I played around with it through various tube amps and the tone of it just opened up. I currently play through a Fender Quad Reverb (loud). Even though I'm about to have a Fender Standard in my possesion, this guitar may do just as good (i need to make closer comparisons, but so far the action and the sound of it does not reach that of the standard). I got the whammy bar problem fixed (a previous owner had stuck some useless hardware inside the screw hole) and it no longer goes out of tune as often.

Normal dent, scratch & wear all from me and previous owners. I wonder how this felt right out of the factory, it was pretty tense when I got it and I played it like that for a year when I got it till i loosened the springs. Still a bit more tense then other strats i've played. I replaced small stuff like the selector cover and a new whammy bar screwed in and worked better than the old.

The minor fixes really did the trick for this guitar. It hardly goes out of tune now when I use the whammy. Things feel a lot more stable also. It's about to become the alternating main guitar with another strat that I'm getting, but I'm sure i'll still be using it.
Carrying it in a gig-bag, not much to worry about --just make sure to take off the whammy before zipping the sucker up.

Anyone have any info on the Bently company???

After about a year, some repairs, and a brand new amp; this guitar opened up and sounds great. Compared to others, the action could still be better.
Great deal for being $70 and a first electric. It compares well with the fender gear i've been trying out currently.
Now that things are more stable feeling, i'm a lot more comfortable with it in performance, it has yet to fail on me during a practice or a small performance -- and i don't see why it would now. A quick-tune device should be kept around though when you are mobile with this guitar, it still goes out of tune frequently when not in use.
If it were stolen now, it wouldn't be such a big loss... but you get to see the true value of your first guitar after playing a lot of other stuff --it just feels familiar.
i'm thinking someday of getting floyd rose bridge installed, just a thought --an expensive thought though.
If anyone has any further info on this guitar or the Bently company etc etc, please contact me, i'd like to know more about this guitar.

I have no clue when/where it was made. It sports a 21 fret setup. Laminated Top. Controls: General Volume, And two other knobs for volumes on the frets. A 5-way selector. Your basic strat setup I couldn't tell you the model of the pickups. Maple Neck.

Ok, first of all, i've come to love using the whammy bar... unfortunately my bar frequently comes off (previous owner didnt like it much and decided to remove it before he sold it to me, and now im stuck with one that falls out all the time). This is the gutiar I like to practice leads on, and it works out nicely. I use it with the basic beginners setup (leftover cos im broke) which includes a crate amp, Boss DS-1 dist., VOX wah, DOD FX75 flanger, Dunlop Rotovibe. I get really no noise, except for the usual hum from the single coil setup, it's pretty quiet. A nice full sound on most of the pickup setttings, although you can tell that it's generic. This is pretty much my only guitar right now, with the capabilities to sound pretty decent, I don't get too much variety out of it unless I mess around with my tone and really screw with everything. I hate the fact that my whammy bar is screwy (i need to get it fixed), and using it frequently puts the guitar out of tune.

When I got it, about 3-4 years ago, it's action was very tense and I had a hard time learning to play on it (although previously learning on an accoustic with even tenser action helped). I eventually loosened the springs, so now the action is just fine. I had to djust the pickups many times to my liking. Everything seems to be setup right, since i've had it, about 30 people have looked at it and examined it briefly and said they thought it was a nice, decent one. Unfortunately the bridge, in the last 2 years, has come out of alignment and awaits repair. It's got the average dent and scratch that happens to a guitar that were on t when i got it and before I got it.

I wouldn't play this thing live (and I have, it went out of tune at the worst time after using a kyser capo on it). I really need to get everything fixed before I rely on it again. The finish, is lasting (it gets banged around often). Strap buttons are good, jsut get a good strap or pay the price. I'm stuck with this guitar, and only this guitar until I get my jazzmaster (or Jaguar... possibly a mustang). Till then i'm just going to get it repaired and will use it with care, although wouldn't consider playing a gig without the help of a borrowed guitar.

I have no idea if there is one

This was my first guitar and since then i've been able to play different ones now and then. It's lasted me almost 4 years and i expect it to last a few more (unless I sell it to another beginning guitarist). I was really in a budget strain when I got it, but I don't regret buying it (cheap cheap cheap). Wish I'd known more about guitars before I got this one, otherwise I would've jsut bought a new Fender Squire for an extra $100. I'd never buy this guitar again, for one i woulnd't know where to buy one, and for another, i'd rather spend oney on something I would use for the long run and this isn't it. I love it for being my first guitar, i've gone from two fingered power chords, to a lot of intricate lead playing and it's never ceased to fail on me for any of that. I hate all the damn things that it needs to get fixed, but it's what's expected from a 3rd hand guitar for $70. It's tuning is unstable when the whammy bar is used. In the condition I got it, i'd assume it had become a strat for beginners with not a lot of $$. I'd love to have used this thing brand new, probably would enhance the way it plays by 3. Overall i'd say for a generic strat, it ain't so bad.

The bass is a joke. The neck is made out of 4 pieces of wood glued togather. All of the strings bang against the fret board no matter how you set the action. It is set up in your everyday P bass style with two knobs. One for volume and one for tone. the body is made out of a thick plywood and has a Fender P-bass style to it. It does have a fairly interesting paint job though...

the whole thing is frightening. Maybe it was good at one point(I doubt it) but then it must've ben hit by a truck. Sounds like a four sting guitar that won't stay in tune. It does work, so i have to give it a little credit.

Terrible action. You can't fix it. The finish is really ugly but it is interesting to say the least.

The strap button are suprizingly strong. I'd trust them. I sure that the guitar could take a good beating but the neck is fragile. Overall is fairly sturdy. I can only be used as a last resort backup.

Who would I call? They'd probably laugh at me asking about coustomer service.

I've been playing for six years. I bet these guitars are dirt cheap. They aren't the worst you can get so if the price is right(under 100)pick up used one.