The HB is generally a much better crafted kit than a Pit Bull one. Only real complaint is the tuner hole diameters being slightly oversize compared to normal. The body wood isn’t anything you’d want to stain, but for a solid colour bass it’s pretty much ideal as a kit. This is what a low-cost Chinese kit can be like with proper quality control in place. As a kit to easily upgrade, the tuner hole size lets it down. The pre-sealered body and neck preclude reliable staining if the body wood was more suitable, as you’d have to sand back quite a way to guarantee reaching bare wood. But there are no machining marks on the body to remove, unlike on the Pit Bull kits.
If they offered their bolt-on kits with an ash or alder body with no sealer on the body or neck, and standard diameter tuner holes, then they’d probably dominate that area of the kit guitar market.
Last edited by Simon Barden; 29-04-2021 at 06:02 PM.
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