HB-35Plus Lemon : Amazing guitar, especially for the price

I can’t believe they can sell this guitar at this price point. Because this is considered a “ budget “ guitar, I went back and forth on giving a rating of 4 or 5 stars. Going strictly on what you get for the price, I gave 5 stars.

To me, this HB35 can easily compete with guitars costing 3 times more with no upgrades done to it. The only things I did that I found were necessary on the one I received was changing the bridge, the strings, and polishing the frets.

After I lowered the action (came a little high) and tuned it up, I got a slight rattle from the bridge. One of the intonation screws was backed out so I put in an inexpensive roller bridge and now everything is good. The frets were actually not too bad but were better after a good polish. And I oiled the fret board while the strings were off. Kind of dry. The strings were not bad but I have my preference. I found the tuners to be pretty good and liked the pickups so I left them all alone.

The only other thing I did was cosmetic. I don’t like bell knobs, especially on push/pull pots, and I didn’t care for the color of the stock knobs anyway so I bought Musiclily Pro speed knobs that I think are much better looking and feeling and make an already beautiful guitar that much more attractive.

I liked this guitar so much that I bought a second one for my son who is a much more accomplished player than I am. He received his yesterday and was completely blown away. All he did to his was tune it up, no other adjustments, and off he went. He kept saying “I can’t believe how nice this guitar is.” High compliments from him as he is really picky and owns some high end guitars. He said it is really well balanced either sitting or standing and I completely agree with him.

Lastly, my wife said to me, “You must really like that guitar. You actually play entire songs, not just bits and pieces of songs.” She’s right. I really like this thing and do enjoy playing it a whole heck of a lot.