TE-30 BE Standard Series : Excellent Tele style guitar

I've been looking for a Tele style guitar for a while, deciding how much I wanted to spend on it..... If I'd known that one as cheap as this would be so good then I would have stopped looking and just bought it a long time ago!

This guitar is a surprisingly authentic replica of a classic given the price. It plays lovely, the neck feels great in the hand and the whole thing balances out great, even though the body is pretty heavy. Set up out of the box feels absolutely fine to me, no frets buzz, it plays nicely across the whole range of notes.

For sound, this model is very, very bright. It's got a very trebly "twang" to it. That twang can be toned down by switching to the bridge pickup and turning the tone control down obviously, but it still has a certain bite to the sound. No bad thing! At this price, this is a guitar that I've bought for a particular character, at has not disappointed at all.

I've paid a lot more in the past for guitars that play a lot worse than this one does. I wanted to add the Tele style brightness and twang as an option in my collection and I'm amazed that I managed to do it at this price!

The only thing I will almost certainly change at some point is the scratch plate... It's not really my taste, but that is purely my taste, entirely aesthetic, and doesn't affect the quality of the product at all! The cost of a new one added to the cost of this guitar still makes it an absolute bargain!

I have had my eye on a few other Harley Benton guitars and now I know that they really are this good, I will certainly be ordering some more pretty soon! What a great way to build a collection of entirely playable guitars of different flavours.