Harley Benton UK-L100 VS Soprano Ukulele Reviews

A good fun uke

Buy one, they're great.

No it's not the Rolls Royce of instruments, but it plays well and looks like a baby LP.

What's not to like?

Good for the price

Bought this for my 7 year old for Christmas as she wanted to play my guitar but it's too large.

Pros:

Very cheap

Light

Decent sound for the price

Reasonably well made

Cons:

Can't really complain about an instrument that cost 18/EUR and actually works

I love this "little guitar". I fell for it the moment I saw it for the first time and didn't make a mistake at all - The sound is very good, looks awesome and the price is excellent. Some little flaws at the finish of the back, but it's hardly visible.

Excellent

Great instrument at a cheap price!

A Uke for 20 Euros!

I bought this for my young son's Christmas present as he loves playing my guitar but its too big for him! He likes strumming it.

For the money, its unbelievable.

For jamming or singing in a pub it would be fine. I wouldn't want to record with it. Though it is works well if you mic it up for a bit of volume (and fun!).

If you are looking at this - just buy it - you can't really go wrong.

Great Value

For such a cheap price, you can't go wrong with the Harley Benton UK-L100 VS Soprano Ukulele. It sounds and plays like a much more costly ukulele and it made a great gift for christmas.

"Les Paul Uke. Makeover".

The: "Harley Benton UK-L100 VS Soprano Ukulele" has a Les Paul style, cutaway body, with trapeze pearloide inlays along the neck, & a high gloss Vintage Sunburst finish. When it arrived I was quite pleased with what I saw, the finish was done nicely, & the neck inlays were also accurately cut & inserted. There were a couple of discrepancies between the description & pictures in the listing & the instrument I received. It didn't have the vintage style, tulip machine head buttons (it had small oval, cream plastic ones), & it didn't have a strap pin on it. Sound quality was not to bad, but would definitely be improved by fitting Martin Fluorocarbon strings which I prefer. As I was fitting a strap I fitted a strap pin, a word of warning here, because there is no timber reinforcement inside the body to screw into, I had to fit one on a plate with 3 screws. It seems firm enough but had I known before I started drilling, it would probably have been better to fit the type of strap that hooks into the sound hole.

I decided to give the uke. a makeover to enhance it's Les Paul look, which I did as follows. First of all I enlarged an image of a Les Paul style guitar body, to a similar size of the uke. body. I then made templates of the the pickups, pickguard, & Treble/Tone switch plate. I removed the area of the neck pickup template that covered the sound hole, so it wouldn't muffle the sound. Then using 3mm. thick, black ABS sheet with a gold face, I had the template shape cut out, & detailing engraved on top so the black showed through the gold for effect. Then using cream faced black ABS I had the pickguard & Treble/Tone switch plate cut out & engraved in the same way. Finally I made a scale template of a Les Paul truss rod plate made, & using white ABS faced with black had a truss rod plate cut & engraved. I pushed a roof felt tack through the hole in the middle of the switch plate & pushed a real switch tip onto it. All the plates were now ready, so using a good quality double sided tape, I fitted all the plates into the correct positions on the body & headstock of the ukulele. Finally I glued 4 Telecaster, black plastic barrel switch tips onto the body to look like the control knobs on a Les Paul guitar.

All-in-all this was a worthwhile project on a reasonably priced & sounding ukulele. I hope you found it interesting & maybe inspire you to give one of these ukes a "Les Paul Makeover". Pleasant Strumming.