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Harmony H60

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Manufacturer URL http://harmonyguitars.com/
Features 2.8 (4 responses)
Sound 2.3 (4 responses)
Action, Fit, & Finish 2.3 (3 responses)
Reliability/Durability 6.5 (4 responses)
Customer Support 3.0 (1 response)
Overall Rating 3.8 (4 responses)
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Product: Harmony H60
Price Paid: US $60 used
Submitted 01/19/2001 at 05:56pm by Anonymous

Features : 3
Year: Unknown, 21 frets plus zero, two single coil pickups, tone and volume controls. The finish is some kind of a thick plasic that probably was developed for the space shuttle. Body is somewhere between a strat and an SG. Rack of open tuners. Bridge is a flat bar balanced on two studs.

Sound : 5
Pretty loud for an electric when unamped. Makes a nice round tone through my little Champ, and really goes to town when I crank on the Danelectro Cheese distortion.

Action, Fit, & Finish : 2
Action sucke big time. I never play anything except open chords on this puppy, cause it's too rough to play barres.

The wiring was all bad when I got it, I don't even understand how a signal got through.

Reliability/Durability : 10
It's a solid as a rock.

Customer Support : No Opinion

Overall Rating : 4
I've been playing badly for 20 years now. I've had various cheap guitars, but this is the cheapest. I got it because I wanted a crappy guitar to mess with, and it was dead cheap. My lother electric is a Galanti, and it's too classic to mess with.

If it was stolen I would curse the gods that made me.


Product: Harmony H60
Price Paid: US $90.00 used
Submitted 06/13/2000 at 02:54pm by Mike.J
Email: none

Features : 2
This guitar has been hot-rodded to the hilt now! It used to have a black painted ananymous neck (Which i found out is maple with a maple fingerboard), plastic and chrome tuners, 21 frets (22 if you count the zero fret as a fret), something like a 25mm plywood body that looks like a chopped down Gibson SG, this cheap piece of shit bridge that you couldnt change the intonation or string height accuratley on (It looked like something I saw on a sewing machine once), this kick ass looking chrome tailpiece, 2 single coils, 1 volume, 1 tone, and a suprisingly great paint job. A 2 stock, It don't have shit, it just looks cool.

Sound : 2
Stock this guitar is only good for punk and grunge RHYTHYM playing. And it feeds back horribly and sounds like something I would have concocted out of plywood in my garage at five years old. So I shot it up a few times. My friend used to own it and he had me put pickup selectors in it as well as a singlecoil pickup from my kramer in it. It sounded a little better then. Then i got it and put $94.00 worth of parts into it including: new frets, new nut, new tuners, new EMG select pickups, new pots (now with 2 volume and two tones), Radio Shack knobs, a Les Paul selector switch, and a tune-o-matic bridge. This guitar kicked ass for the time i had it setup that way until i had to replace the pickups because my beloved Kramer's had died. Then I put two Cort Les Paul copy humbuckers in it and the neck sounds bad ass, kind of like a p-90 on steroids, and the bridge sounds like shit, I'm gonna put a motherbucker down there someday.

Action, Fit, & Finish : No Opinion
The action was good until my friend and i traded necks (I gave him a neck from a Harmony strat in trade for his neck, But i finally got it back from him later when I bought this guitar). I refretted the neck and it has playable action, but it;s still not perfect (MY bad). The parts all looked like a slap-together job, some of the parts were badly out of line. I recessed them in their proper places and it worked out well. the paint is excellent. Another thing about the neck is the shitty paint they put on it, I would play this thing and my fingers would be as black as if I were rubbing them on brand new newspaper print. I just stripped that shit off and put on some clearcoat and it worked just fine.

Reliability/Durability : 10
Here is the major problem with harmony, they build shitty guitars you just cant destroy. I have thrown this thing, hit it, smacked it on the floor, dropped it, and it doesnt even have a crack or ding on the body. What did they use for finish, road tar? the strap buttons are shit though, they fall out, but big deal for most of the people who buy these things are beginners anyways.

Customer Support : No Opinion
I bought this thing from my friend, he has no customer support.

Overall Rating : 7
if someone stole this guitar I would probably not worry, theyd probably send it back, it looks like shit with all the mods anyway. All the missing paint where I routed.


Product: Harmony H60
Price Paid: US $50
Submitted 06/27/1999 at 10:25pm by Philip Wooldridge

Features : 2
I don't know how old, 21 frets, 2 single coil pickups, 1 vol, 1 tone, plastic tuners.

Sound : 1
This was my first guitar, and I didn't have a style at the time of purchase. I bought it at a garage sale for $50 with an ancient Montgomery Ward 15W tube amp (which i wish i still had to mess with). It sounded just plain weak. It was always out of tune and sounded like I was stumming dental floss on a hickory stick.

Action, Fit, & Finish : 1
The tuning pegs were loose on this baby, and the action was about the worst i've ever played. The strings had to be a centimeter off of the fretboard.

Reliability/Durability : 2
Well, being as naive as I was in 7th grade, I spend about $150 in repairs on this $50 guitar. This thing seriously broke once a month. It shorted out about 3 times in the year i owned it, despite professional repair.

Customer Support : No Opinion
Never dealt with the company.

Overall Rating : 1
NEVER BUY THIS GUITAR. I had this thing in 7th grade, and all of my budding guitarist buddies made fun of me for it. Two of my "friends" even wrote a song they called "Harmony sucks, So who's buying?" Bad sound. Terrible action. Waste of $50 that you could use toward a good stomp box or a fraction of a REAL guitar.


Product: Harmony H60
Price Paid: US $90.00
Submitted 09/18/1998 at 04:49pm by Fred Nance
Email: frednanc at gte<dot>net

Features : 4
This guitar was given to me for christmas in '85. It had 2 p90 style pickups, tone and vol, p/u on/off switches for both of 'em and it had a cherry sunburst color with a black pickguard it was an offset strat or SG. The neck was rosewood with jumbo frets and it was a bolt on neck. The guitar came from JC Penney catalog with a guitar buddy amp. The tuning pegs were plastic, I didn't have it long because I broke it and had thrown it out. I had to save some money from my part-time job and get a Fender Strat. I was my first guitar, what more could I say

Sound : 1
I sounded pretty thin and the pickups were weak and very microphonic, so microphonic that i could talk into them and hear my voice through the amp.

Action, Fit, & Finish : 4
what do you expect from korea.

Reliability/Durability : 4
never played it on gigs

Customer Support : 3
N/A

Overall Rating : 3
At this time i've been playing on and off for 13 years and this was my first guitar that my dad bought.
I would like to own a few good axes to play as i get older and band ready.

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