Nice cover! Nice tone also. How's that Harley Benton doing? Are those the original pickups? I've seen that it has a neck-dive problem. Have you experienced it? If so, did you solve it somehow?
Hi Miguel, I like it very much. Tried Flying V and didn't like the feel of it. Tried Les Paul and it was much easier to play on it than on Explorer, but the look of a guitar plays an important role for me :) The pickups on this are "EMG JH pickups", I haven't event tested it with the default pickups. I read on the other comment before that they the original pickups are decent too. Yeah, neck-dive problem exists on a lot of guitars of a lower budget, but the thick HB belt that I use fixed this. I can release the guitar and it stays where it should, so yep, the belt is the answer. Let me know if you have any more questions :)
@@pasha7324 Nice! Thank you for the quick response. Definitely this guitar is an answer for us who would like an Explorer-type guitar that resembles the old Explorer that Hetfield used in the 80s and 90s but can't afford it. I understand the neck dive part on budget guitars. That often happens because the body is lighter. I myself have a Squire Bullet Strat that has a thinner body than a normal Strat, so the neck dives a bit, if I move a bit too much then it's horizontal. So I bought a Fender leather strap with a "rugged" inside that sticks to my clothes and now it doesn't dive. But yeah, maybe one day I'll get this HB as well. The shape is closer to the original Explorers or the ESP explorer-type he used. I like it more than the current snakebyte shape. It looks like Gibson/Epiphone doesn't make the same model as what Hetfield used in the 80s. I guess it's a trademark thing since Hetfield is with ESP. I guess ESP can't make the same shape and Gibson won't make it for Hetfield either. Besides, I know that Hetfield designed the snakebyte shape so he's pretty much into that shape now.
Nice cover! Nice tone also. How's that Harley Benton doing? Are those the original pickups? I've seen that it has a neck-dive problem. Have you experienced it? If so, did you solve it somehow?
Hi Miguel,
I like it very much. Tried Flying V and didn't like the feel of it. Tried Les Paul and it was much easier to play on it than on Explorer, but the look of a guitar plays an important role for me :)
The pickups on this are "EMG JH pickups", I haven't event tested it with the default pickups. I read on the other comment before that they the original pickups are decent too.
Yeah, neck-dive problem exists on a lot of guitars of a lower budget, but the thick HB belt that I use fixed this. I can release the guitar and it stays where it should, so yep, the belt is the answer.
Let me know if you have any more questions :)
@@pasha7324 Nice! Thank you for the quick response. Definitely this guitar is an answer for us who would like an Explorer-type guitar that resembles the old Explorer that Hetfield used in the 80s and 90s but can't afford it. I understand the neck dive part on budget guitars. That often happens because the body is lighter. I myself have a Squire Bullet Strat that has a thinner body than a normal Strat, so the neck dives a bit, if I move a bit too much then it's horizontal. So I bought a Fender leather strap with a "rugged" inside that sticks to my clothes and now it doesn't dive. But yeah, maybe one day I'll get this HB as well. The shape is closer to the original Explorers or the ESP explorer-type he used. I like it more than the current snakebyte shape. It looks like Gibson/Epiphone doesn't make the same model as what Hetfield used in the 80s. I guess it's a trademark thing since Hetfield is with ESP. I guess ESP can't make the same shape and Gibson won't make it for Hetfield either. Besides, I know that Hetfield designed the snakebyte shape so he's pretty much into that shape now.
I will make sure that one day videos on this channel will be recorded with a Snakebyte ^_^