Harley Benton PB-50 LH SB Vintage Series

The best thing about the PB-50 is the pickup. It has a huge p-bass sound with a really punchy attack.

The bass is relatively heavy, so be sure to use a wide strap.

Typically for low cost left handed instruments, they have used the same potentiometers as in the right handed models, but wired them in reverse for the left handed instrument.
This means the taper on the potmeters is wrong and they basically work like on/off switches.
You can choose to void the warranty and rewire the potmeters to work as in a right handed instrument.
Once rewired, the volume and tone pots works great and provides a surprisingly wide array of tones.

The neck has a classic, chunky p-bass profile with a smooth and comfortable finish.

The fretwork is not the best. My instrument has quite a few sharp fret ends .
The tuners are ok, but a bit too low ratio for my taste.
The bridge and the nut are as you would expect on an instrument at this price point: they are there, they work, but they are nothing special.

All in all, the PB-50 is a great sounding instrument, that plays and feels ok for the price.

I needed a bass guitar quickly as my old one was quite beaten from years of playing. I am a guitarist most of the time, but I do play bass a lot and I needed a functioning bass for a specific studio project. I always loved the 51 stlye P basses and the price of the Benton is hard to beat, so I pulled the trigger.

Honestly, I was expecting an ok instrument and was sure I will need to get myself something "better" down the road, but to my surprise this bass suits me like a glove! Great P bass sound, lovely fit and finish and after I put on some flats it turned out as a killer bass.
I bought it and I used it on a commercial record about a week after the purchase with great results, so I guess that speaks enough about the quality of the instrument.

Pros:
- great playability, very comfortable unfinished neck
- great P bass sound from the single coil
- Fit and finish is very good for the price
- It was set up pretty solid out of the box
- For me it is a better fit than some of the squier basses that are double the price (prefer the unfinished neck on these, but your milage my vary!)

Cons:
- upper fretwork was not perfect (specially on the treble side), but nothing too bad (easy fix, had sharper frets on my gibson to be honest...)
- some minor cosmetic issues; there is a bit of glue residue wher the neck meets the body on the side of the fretboard, but it's only visual as it is "flat" and I can't feel any raised areas.
- the neck is chunky. and I mean CHUNKY. It is one of the chunkiest necks I've played, but I happen to love it. If you want to fly over the fretboard or prefer thinker necks, avoid this one.
- tuners are not the best, although they hold tuning well and turn ok, but it's the only thing that might need replacing down the road.

Received my L/H PB-50 last week and it is excellent. looks, plays and sounds really good. I?ve got much more expensive basses.....the case for my MM Stingray V cost more than this bass! .....always fancied an original shape/style P bass.....no chance of a Fender Left Hander and then alongs comes this bass at a fantastic price. Quality instrument, equal to much more expensive models and a no brainier....

Bought this bass to kick about on so I don't damage any of my expensive, big brand basses, I didnt expect much for such little outlay.
I wanted to ditch the scratch plate and go for a vintage 'bits missing' look, as it happens the guard is pretty rubbish...the rest of the bass however is little short of awesome. I ditched the offending guard and immediately liked the instrument. The build quality is a surprise, the fretwork, playability and tonal versatility are all superb.
Playing through a Fender Rumble 100 I managed to find various usable tones from heavy, low bass stuff to slap and funk tones. I found it a little more focused than a p bass and a little hotter than a jazz.
Overall I could use this to record and gig without any setting up, though a half hour of fine tuning the setup yielded an instrument that couldn't play any better.
I can't help but be impressed, the only notably bad part can be unscrewed and discarded