Harley Benton Amarok BT LH BKNT Flame Burst

If you are reading this, I don't think I need to explain to you how difficult it is to find a good quality left handed baritone 6 string for a decent price.

If you are new to the woefully barren and expensive world of left handed guitars, let me save you the hassle: YOU WANT THIS GUITAR!

Every Harley Benton I've purchased has never failed to impress. The Amarok is no exception, and passes with flying colors especially under the scrupulous standards that come with the $500 price tag.

The guitar is absolutely stunning in person, the photos on the website don't do the subtle blue undertones in the finish justice at all.

The pickups are phenomenal, crystal clear on cleans and wonderfully full with overdrive or distortion (and this is coming from someone who feels 81/85 EMGs muddy the tone of a guitar and are a waste of time, money, and a nine volt battery)

I could go on, but I just want to go back to playing my new baritone so I'll end the review there.

GO FOR IT!

Huh, it was a long journey in search of the perfect guitar for me. I was always a 6-string guitar player, with the lowest tuning I had played being drop D. So, I wanted to try something different. And, of course, the choice wasn’t very obvious.
Should I buy a fan-fret guitar, a 7-string, or a baritone?
I tried them all!

Fan-fret - The cheap version from Harley Benton just can’t give you a good idea of what these types of guitars can offer. Muddy humbuckers and doesn’t hold low tunings very well.
7-string Amarok - A solid guitar, comfortable and with a great sound, but... again, it doesn’t handle low tunings very well. You need to experiment with string gauge and setup to comfortably play in low tunings on this guitar.
HB Amarok Baritone! - This is it! The sound and vibe of this guitar are just amazing. You can feel the power that the long scale gives you. It handles low tunings perfectly. If you're not a shredder and just want to play heavy riffs, this is your guitar!
P.S. I hope this review will help guys like me who want to venture into a different field and make their decision less painful than mine was through all these searches!

About Thomann: Quality control seems non-existent, but luckily, you have 30 days to return the product if you don’t like it. Sometimes I was sent an obviously B-stock guitar when I had ordered a brand new one.
Once, I was sent a right-hand guitar instead of a left-hand one.
Another time, I got a damaged guitar.
But thank you, Thomann, for the 30-day money-back guarantee!

Cheers from Barcelona!"**

I use this guitar to write and record a variety of metal genre's in a home recording studio.

The specs on this guitar are awesome and it had me intrigued. I have been interested in a baritone for a while and had not had much luck finding one that was in the price range I was looking for. The Amarak BT fit the bill nicely I did read that there were QC issues with them so it was a bit of a crap shoot on what you get. As it turns out for the most part mine was very good. Only a couple issues. The first - the guitar was set up to standard tuning for a normal scale guitar and the second - the input jack would not hold my cable tight. I restrung the guitar and set it up for proper baritone tuning and fixed the input jack and all is right with the world.

Pro's - EMG pickups, Stainless steel frets, locking tuners, sounds great and fast delivery
Con's - required some minor work to be playable.

After seeing these become available for RH players last year, I emailed Thomann to ask when the LH versions become available. "Some point during 2021" was the reply. Vague, but at least I knew they were coming.
Fast forward to July 2021 I now have the BT version in my possession.
What a treat it is. Great build, looks and playability. Got it currently tuned to Drop A and the 13-62's hold tuning very well.

All in all, an excellent purchase.

Keep up the good work Harley Benton / Thomann and start giving us lefties a few more of the options the RH players get.

I especially like the Red version of this which we can't get... maybe another time eh?

*Update* 03/02/2023

Had this for quite a while now and have made a couple of adjustments. I tired of the Retro Actives quite quickly, bridge Pup always seemed a bit too harsh for my liking, so I swapped them out for a Brushed Black Chrome Het Set. It's perfect now with 13-72's tuned Drop B.

If you're still on the fence regarding purchasing this guitar, jump off it and buy on now.