Harley Benton DC Junior FAT vs Vintage V120 | Guitar shootout | Battle of the fat neck Juniors!

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Another affordable guitar shootout, you say? Indeed it is! Here we’re putting the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT in Benton Blue up against the Vintage V120 ReIssued edition in Two Tone Sunburst, in what I’m billing the battle of the fat neck Juniors!

Yes, the DC Junior FAT and the V120 are both obviously modeled after the Gibson Les Paul Junior (doublecut and singlecut models respectively) and both these models have very chunky neck profiles indeed. Otherwise, they each have a single P90 pickup (a stacked humbucking Roswell on the Harley Benton, and a semi-stacked Wilkinson on the Vintage), and mahogany bodies and necks. The Harley Benton has an ebony fingerboard, while the Vintage’s is Lignum Rosa, and the Vintage is fitted out with Wilkinson hardware, while the Harley Benton has Wilkinson tuners and otherwise generic fixtures and fittings.

Get the Harley Benton DC Junior FAT here:

More on the Vintage V120 here:

So, if you do dig a fat neck, which of these guitars is best? In this video, I try and find out. I play a bunch of riffs on both in my favorite styles so you can hear which sounds best for the kind of music you play, and at the end I give you my detailed thoughts on the good things – and the not so good things – about both guitars.

By the way, the crunch sounds today come courtesy of the Benson Preamp pedal, which I just got, and absolutely love so far! More on that one here:


Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:


00:00 Hello!
00:26 Intro and what we’re doing today
01:27 Those massive necks!
02:18 Specs and features – Harley Benton DC Junior FAT
03:38 Specs and features – Vintage V120
05:59 Today’s rig

Amp on the Clean Channel
06:30 Clean reference chords
06:48 Country strummed chords
07:27 Poppy open string chords
08:02 Country lead sounds
08:18 Country ballad picked arpeggios
08:44 Poppy indie ringing chords
09:12 Indie barre chords
09:44 Indie pop picked arpeggios
10:22 Indie strummed ascending chord progression
10:50 Atmospheric lead melody with extra reverb

Amp on the Clean Channel with the Benson Preamp pedal
11:09 Groovy classic rock riff
12:01 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
12:34 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
13:07 Southern rock picked arpeggios
13:28 Indie rock barre chords
14:20 Indie rock rhythm chords riff
14:54 Indie octave chords riff

Amp on the Lead Channel
15:53 Classic hard rock riff
16:27 Hard rock riff
17:00 Glam rock riff
17:29 Foo Fighters influenced palm-muted rock riff
18:02 Alt rock rhythmic chords with open strings
18:55 Alt rock riff
19:24 Green Day inspired pop punk riff
19:52 Pop punk melodic lead sounds
20:23 Progressive rock riff (Drop D)

Clean Channel with Revv G3 distortion pedal (Drop D tuning)
20:52 Metal chugging riff
20:30 Mastodon inspired modern metal riff
21:50 Hardcore punk riff
22:20 Lead sounds

22:44 My thoughts
23:03 Looks
24:43 Build quality
26:38 Fretboards – Lignum Rosa and Macassar Ebony
27:27 Playability and those necks
28:53 Sounds and the P90 pickups
31:31 Which one would I buy?
33:25 Final conclusion and goodbye

Watch my full Vintage V120 video here:

Watch my full Harkley Benton DC Junior FAT video here:


My setup was as follows: I ran the DC Junior FAT and the V120 into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, and used the Benson Preamp and the Revv G3 for different gain sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Benson Preamp:
Revv G3:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.

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