Harley Benton GuitarTech Service Station

Do you change out strings often? Keep your guitar shiny and clean? Set up string height and intonation? Do you do this on your desk whilst your guitar is propped up on some toilet roll? Yep, me too.

The idea of this product is to give you a worksurface stable and soft enough to rest your guitar whilst working on it. That comes in two parts.

First part is the neoprene base. It's not very thick but it definitely cushions your guitar from hitting the surface you are working on. It has a mouse mat feel to it. Very soft and didn't make a sound when setting my guitar on it. (Unlike when I rest it on the desk and cringe at the thud the body makes). It has the Harley Benton logo printed on it which I don't mind but maybe you might if you don't like the brand. The base is long enough to set up a bass guitar if you just move the neck up a little on the neck rest, which brings me on to....

The second part is basically a guitar holder for your wall but made so that it protrudes through a hole in the neoprene base. It keeps your instrument quite far off of the work surface and allows easy access to the headstock. It is covered in foam, just like your wall hangers. The base part of the rest is a slightly larger circular disk that sits underneath the neoprene and provides stability for the rest. I had no issues with the size of this falling over, it has been totally stable.

Over all, if you are looking at this product then you probably know what you are doing and what you want. This is a cheap product that will allow you to work on your instrument without the fear of damaging it. I like it.

I use an old architect drawing table to paint and also as my guitar tech station. In the past i used a soft towel to put the guitar on with a make shift headrest from bubble wrap. Not an ideal solution but I just never looked into anything different until now. Main reason is that I needed a more grippy surface for doing routing work for pick ups.
Enter the Harley Benton Service station . This surface is way more stable and the headrest is flexible enough to work on guitars in all shapes and sizes. The head rest is made from cork and in combination with the surface it mostly stays in place.
Great to have on top of even surfaces and good to work with even with clamping down a guitar body. The only downside was the rough cutting of the head rest, almost but not completely symmetrical. Hence the 4 out of 5