SC-Custom II SPAF : Not a great budget guitar. It is a great guitar, period.

My wife purchased this guitar for me as a gift for Father’s Day, and I received it on my birthday, about 8 months later. It was totally worth to wait for it. I own several other guitars with different styles and I'm very picky for finish, tone, and playability. When I received it, I was expecting to do some good amount of neck setup on this guitar as I do for any affordable guitar. But no, I haven't done it so far, just plug and play. Of course, you can always improve the neck set up, but it came out of the box with nice fret ends, reasonably polished, and low action with no buzzing at all.

The guitar looks cool and contemporary, and I love the fact that it doesn't pretend to be a classic Les Paul. For me, it looks like a modern reading of a classic Les Paul. Almost if the big brand, starting with G, modernize or refresh the look of the Les Paul, it would be like this guitar.

It plays really well from clean to heavy, and the split coil function sounds really convincing for a single coil tone.

This is a guitar that you won’t regret to buy, and probably it will be the one you will grab from the wall every time you gig.

I was skeptical to buy a Harley Benton for many reasons, but I'm not anymore, so I'm purchasing another one. 😊

Great job on this one!