Harley Benton JA-60CC Inca Silver

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Electric Guitar

  • Vintage Series
  • Body: Basswood
  • Bolt-on neck: Vintage caramelised canadian maple
  • Fretbiard: Laurel
  • Fretboard inlays: Blocks
  • Neck profile: C
  • Double action truss rod
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • Scale length: 648 mm
  • 21 Frets
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell JM Alnico-5 vintage style
  • 1 x Volume and 1 x tone control
  • 3-Way switch
  • Fixed bridge
  • Kluson-style machine heads
  • Deluxe chrome hardware
  • Strings: .010 to .046
  • Colour: Inca Silver
  • Suitable case: Art.122213 (not included)
Available since October 2022
Item number 514466
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Silver
Soundboard Basswood
Neck Caramelized Canadian Maple
Fretboard Laurel
Frets 21
Scale 648 mm
Pickup System JM, JM
Tremolo No
Incl. Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
Design J-Style
Top None
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An offset classic with a modern twist

Electric Guitar Harley Benton JA-60CC Inca Silver front view

The Harley Benton JA-60CC, shown here in its Inca Silver finish, is aimed at guitarists who are in search of a true legend at an affordable price. This guitar features an offset-style basswood body and a roasted maple neck with a slim C profile and 21-fret laurel fingerboard that ensures a comfortable playing feel, and it comes loaded with a pair of Roswell single coil pickups that provide a full sound even in the bridge position. The combination of a classic early 60s-style finish and chrome hardware (complete with Kluson-style machine heads and a Tune-o-Matic bridge and stop-bar tailpiece) also ensures that it has the looks to match its distinctive and characteristic sound.

Single coils on the Harley Benton JA-60CC Inca Silver

Perfect for Indie and Co.

The Harley Benton JA-60CC pays tribute to some of the classic guitars of the past and, while it will capably handle Jazz, will feel most at home in Indie and Alternative music. Its simple yet effective circuitry includes a three-way toggle switch for pickup selection as well as master volume and tone controls to allow guitarists to adjust the sound according to their personal preferences, and both the conveniently placed controls and the two Roswell pickups are installed on a cream-coloured pickguard that covers about half of the guitar’s top. Speaking of the pickups: Despite their similar appearance, these are not P90s but rather “conventional” single coils, albeit with wider, flatter windings that provide a richer and deeper sound than their taller, narrower counterparts. The fixed bridge and the reliable machine heads that adorn the natural-finish headstock in turn ensure reliable tuning stability.

Bolt-on neck made of vintage caramelised Canadian maple on the Harley Benton JA-60CC Inca Silver

Alternative sounds on a budget

Fans of Alternative or Surf music who have to get by on a small budget will certainly appreciate the Harley Benton JA-60CC’s affordable price. The guitar offers a great sound for Indie music thanks to its particularly flat, wide single coils, while the offset body’s deep cutaways mean that its impressive playing comfort does not end at the 12th fret. The JA-60CC’s excellent build quality can rival that of more high-priced instruments, so players can rest assured that they have made a solid investment and can enjoy the instrument for many years to come. And alongside the guitar’s distinctive sound, the authentic 1960s Inca Silver finish will also make it a guaranteed eyecatcher both at home and on stage.

Harley Benton headstock

About Harley Benton

Since 1998, the Harley Benton brand has been catering for the needs of numerous guitarists and bassists. In addition to an extensive range of stringed instruments, Thomann's house brand also offers a wide choice of amplifiers, speakers, effect pedals, and other accessories. In total, the range includes over 1,500 products. Built by established names in the industry, all Harley Benton products combine quality and reliability at attractive and affordable prices. The continuous expansion of the range ensures that Harley Benton always provides new, exciting, and innovative products that keep players perfectly in tune with the musical world, day after day.

Balance and versatility

Thanks to its clear and punchy sound, the JA-60CC can be used for a wide variety of musical genres. It will feel especially at home in Alternative, Indie, and Surf Rock music, where its two Roswell single coils will deliver clean sounds with plenty of low end as well as dynamic overdriven tones. The guitar’s sonic palette is complemented by the well-balanced offset body and familiar comfortable playing feel, both of which will facilitate a successful performance in the rehearsal room and, most importantly, on stage. Needless to say, the JA-60CC will sound best when combined with an appropriate amplifier – and of course Harley Benton also offers a range of high-quality amps at very fair prices, so it is also well worth checking out Thomann’s attractive bundle offers!

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Crystalwave 25.02.2023
This was my second HB, first one being a TE-62CC SFG. That guitar was fantastic and as has been said in many reviews the necks on all Harleys are tremendous. The TE neck was great. This neck is not great like the TE ... it's even better. Smooth, no sprout or dodgy fret edges at all, lovely thickness, silky feel, perfect binding and nice, neat inlays. The neck and weight are important to me (aside from liking the look enough to want to pick a guitar up in the first place). Pickups are obviously vital but these can be easily upgraded in any guitar. My particular JA is very light which is great and I find their take on the Jazzmaster shape really comfortable having never owned one before.

There was only one flaw on the entire guitar and that was a small dint a third of the way down the back where the belly cut stops. It will never be seen and was clearly there before the paintwork and clearcoat were applied so won't get worse. Personally, I don't side with the logic that as these are so well-priced these things are ok. To me, that flaw must have been missed or deliberately ignored at multiple inspection phases (if such things even exist) and makes a mockery of the multiple ticked QC cards in the packaging. That said, everything else is perfect and it plays really nicely so it was never going to be returned for that.

Personally, I'm not overly keen on the pickups. They are fine, absolutely nothing wrong with them but to me they just lack any sort of personality. I've seen some YouTubers get good improvements by putting in 1 Meg pots so might try that as that's a dirt-cheap tweak. You obviousIy get some of the usual characteristics that lower priced guitars have in the pots and switches but that's the same everywhere e.g. knobs do nothing until they get to 3. I saw a review of a Fender Player the other day with exactly this problem and the switch cap fell off mid-review and that guitar was four times more expensive! I also would have preferred the jack to be on the bottom as it's just a pain on the pickguard - one place where authenticity can be ditched as far as I'm concerned.

I remember buying a Washburn Mercury guitar in the 90s which was twice the price even then and was basically junk and made learning hard work. These guitars are mind-blowing for the money. You do not feel you are picking up a cheapo, entry-level guitar because they are not in any way (well, except for the price but you know what I mean). Really makes you think how the big guns have been taking us for a ride all these years. Can Fender really justify 9 tiers of Fender Stratocasters - extra $100 we'll give you locking tuners, another $100 we'll roll the fretboard edges, another $100 we'll give you $20 more expensive pickups. Come on, enough is enough!

I'm slightly surprised it takes a week to get to the UK when I read US customers saying theirs have turned up in 3 days but so be it. It came as a box within a box and both were completely undamaged. International tracking is non-existent. You get the shipped state from Thomann then 7 days non-existent progress until DHL suddenly say we've got it and we'll be round in a jiffy. I never understand why so many couriers provide so little in-progress tracking as they will clearly know what's going on so why can't we.

I wish the bundle prices with gig bags were consistent. This didn't have a bundle, the TE did have one. Sometimes you get the gig bag for almost half price, sometimes they are only 5% cheaper.

I've wandered off the point but to summarise: Fender who? Gibson who? With products this good, it's only a matter of time until mentioning the word Harley makes people think of guitars first instead of motorcycles.
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A Quality Offset Guitar
PD Blackwell 12.11.2022
This is my fourth Harley Benton electric guitar, and based on my first time playing it, it will probably end up my favorite HB guitar. The build quality is excellent and the sound is very good. Much better than other guitars that cost twice as much. Well designed and built - a masterpiece.
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Probably the best budget guitar you can find!
Nuno V 12.02.2023
Really great guitar!
It’s the cheapest one I have and it’s perfect on playability: the frets and the neck are as good as some 600+ euros guitars; it’s lighter than a real JM; it has no trem (which I prefer in these kind of models); I’m using it in C standard tuning and have no intonations issues whatsoever.
Only improvements I would like are:
- white/pearl pick guard instead of mint (only noticed the real colour when I got it in my hands); up and down switch should be the standard left to right; would match plastic colours on nut/pickups/switches. But for the price these are not real issues.
I would recommend this to anyone looking for a budget JM’like guitar.
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Nice Guitar
Blackwells 25.10.2022
Plays well if you’re a rhythm player! Neck is like butter! All in all a great deal!
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