SC-450 P90 GT Classic Series : Excellent Quality. Incredible price. Highly recommended.

10 years ago

Purchased product to add to small collection of not so expensive guitars for home use.

Build quality excellent. Beautiful top gold finish free of any imperfections (no scratches, etc.). Finish on back of two piece body equally as nice. Matching of wood grain could have been better. Bindings nicely finished, including neck. Mother of pearl inlays very tidy. Frets nicely finished with no sharp edges. Neck and fret board feel very nice.

Machine heads turn smoothly, as do volume and tone controls. Pickup switch has good feel.

Action very good. Intonation needed adjusting. Intonation adjustment on low E barely manageable (bridge could have been angled more to accommodate adjustment on low E). Proper upward bow on neck and no truss rod adjustment required.

P90 pickups sound very good. No fret buss. Holds tuning well.

Excellent Quality. Incredible price. Highly recommended.

After a few months, a couple of issues did arise;

(1) high E has a tendency to slip off of the fret, especially when doing pull offs (perhaps because the string spacings on the nut are too wide and the fret ends are cut on too much of an angle)

(2) strings stay out of tune after bending.

Replaced the nut with one from TUSQ and all is perfect. A higher quality nut should have been used originally.

Image Harley Benton SC-450 P90 GT Classic Series

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Harley Benton
  • Released in 2015
  • Average price : $162
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