CST-24HB Tortoise Flame : floored by the quality

This was my first Harley Benton guitar and I was not sure what I would get.

I was shocked at the quality I was expecting much less. It has a beautiful finish and the overall quality is very good . I have since purchased a cst24 solid body black cherry and I wish this had the same neck as the solid body . It is not bad but not as playable . It sounded very good right out of the box but I changed the pickups to seymour duncan and it really sound great now. I have a vintage jackson custom shop,, a vintage strat and a new tele american made and a ibenez gb-10 , since I am no longer touring I could not justify paying $4 to $5 k for the PRS that I wanted this guitar is not a PRS by any means , but for the money it is fantastic PRS type of guitar to experiment with pickups and electronics on ,sort of a PRS project guitar . I could not be more pleased