Bently Series 10 Review

History:

Purchase: So I am a lazy fifteen year old, at the time, in a new town with no friends. Until one day I make one who is extreamly interested in music. He asks me if I want to start a band. I say ok and run home to ask my parents to buy me a bass. Then I ask again the next day and the next and so on. A week passes and they give in. Another week passes and they have the money to buy me my first bass. We shop around local pawn shops and nothing catches my eye. Then there it is. I pay no attention to other options and it says to me, with a $100.00 price tag it says, "Buy me." so I do. Then a few days later my mom comes home with my first amp. Funny thing is the amp was not a bass amp but a guitar pratice amp. But it did the trick.

What I Like About This Unit: The first look was to my liking. Black, dark, 24 frets, and good feeling holding it. As my talent and knowledge of other intruments progressed I started noticing other qualities i deamed desirable. My slap/strum style is due to the playability of this bass. I find the neck on most basses to be kind of thin where as this neck is wide enough to fit my short fat fingers between the strings. I still favor this bass over my Fender Jazz Bass Special Fretless.

What I Do NOT Like About The Bently Series 10: Later, after I got a new amp, I started to notice no matter how much I turned up during practice I still felt a little to much in the back ground. And then the guitarist got a bigger amp and I was not even audible.

Series 10 Quality: I don't remember the condition it was in when I first got it, but now it is beat to sh*t. It still plays though. After three and half years of gigs/pratice and moving around, other careless bastards dropin it and a two month vacation (being packed in the trunk under suit cases and in the dessert's direct sun (it has never been in a case)), only now do I have to replace something. Wires. Thats my fault though, I tried to reafix them to the jack input but I cut the wire too short when tring to expose the fibers. I broke my G string once and replaced it with an A string and it was to big for the nut so it broke but the string somehow stayed on place. Oh and another thing I have three screws holding in my pickups when I should have eight but it never was a problem. THIS BASS IS MADE LIKE A (light wight) TANK!

Summary: I love this bass. I have done almost everything with it. I use to play it while riding my bike. I have played it on the roofs of houses. I even took it on a vacation. It was my first bass and it was good enough to make me continue playing music. If I had a sh*itty bass when I began I dont think I would still be playing bass. This bass is perfect for everyone. Novice to expert can enjoy playing it. (I dont know for sure if it is a Bently because all it says on mine is Series 10 and on the back side of the head it has a sticker witch says No.103255)

Rating of this product: 5

This Bently Bass Guitars Review Submitted By: Douglas M. McCue

Date: 2002-11-26