Harden Engineering Guitars

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:03 pm

http://www.hardenengineering.com/guitars.asp

Click on guitars for sale, and look around the site. I really like these. They're retro-esque with a lot of design cues from old stuff but not really repeats of anything. The guy makes alot of his hardware and pickups. The prices are not bad either for a US Made guitar $1200 for most solid bodies up to $2500 for the Hollowbody models. Especially when you consider that the dollar is sucking complete ass at the moment and a CIJ Fender is going for like $1,000 new.

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:36 pm

If Mad Max played guitar, it owuld be one of those.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 4:26 am

I would probably give them a shot, but they just look "unfinished" to me.

euan · Post by **euan** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:07 am

My reaction was holy fuck. I like them.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:42 am

Mine was 'what a cock'

Ever wonder why vintage guitars have that special something that motivates players to pay thousands and thousands for them? How come two Les Pauls coming off the assembly line don't sound the same? What gives some guitars that "mojo" that makes you want to play them over and over again?

Here at Harden Engineering we are dedicated to making guitars and related items the "Old Fashioned" way. All guitars and parts are fabricated painstakingly by hand with the player in mind. In a world of mass production and globalization, it's good to know something is still made in America.

First paragraph mojoarrowslolol, second using the MIA tag to justify the opening sentence of the third....

Guitars start at $1500.00 and require a down payment of 1/3 the price...

I haven't checked out the rest of the site yet, but my first impression is bad.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:15 pm

I like the effort. I am not sure if I like the total package, but parts of it are very cool.

mellowlogic · Post by **mellowlogic** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:05 pm

I've seen a few of these on my local craigslist over the last couple weeks. I'm guessing that's probably a bad sign if people are looking to get rid of them already.

It also seems pretty ballsy to me for an unknown company trying to charge 1500 out the gate for an untested guitar.

drasp · Post by **drasp** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:50 pm

WOW! I LOVE the style & detail on 'em. I'd love to get my hands on one to see if they feel/play/sound as good as they look.

I also like that they're from Chicago.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:08 pm

Spacy! It's hard to carve one's niche these days, and I like what's going on there.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:25 am

dude thats really cool! i dig the blue one in the begining with the bigsby.