SC-550 II BCF : A great guitar

This is a fantastic guitar that plays great and sounds great right out of the box. However...there are some issues.

I will first say that I am a huge Harley Benton fan and I own several HB guitars and I haven't been disappointed with the quality of any of the instruments I've previously purchased, but this particular guitar was slightly disappointing in two major ways:

1) The fretboard "bit" me the first time I played it and - while moving my hand along the fretboard - a piece of plastic near the second fret sliced my hand and I got a sliver a fretboard binding stuck in my finger. After cleaning up the blood and pulling the sliver out of my hand, I was all good. But I didn't "trust" the guitar to play it again until I did some proper fretwork on the neck. Perhaps I got a bad one in the batch?

2) The colour of this instrument is closer to a darker "candy apple red" and not the brighter shade of red seen in the product photos. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful guitar, but if you were expecting the guitar to look EXACTLY like the website photos you'll be disappointed.

All in all, it's a great guitar.