Fusion-III HSH Roasted FNT : Nice guitar overall, but some quality improvements and playability fixes needed

3 years ago

This guitar is pretty playable, but there are some things that are not convenient:

1) the location of right hand corner cut is just wrong, and I feel the corner of the guitar while I'm playing,

2) the location of volume pot is too close to the place where I like to play with my right hand and I hit it with my fingers,

3) the bridge would not return to it's location because it touches the body on the side, I had to install a tremsetter (aka tremmory) to make it playable,

4) there are some places where the body wood was just dirty and I can see that beyond the finish.

5) feedback from the guitar -- it's kinda muffled, it's not very responsive.

Overall, this is a super nice guitar for the price, but it needs minor improvements.

I would consider it as a nice addition to the collection, but this doesn't feel like the main guitar.

However, there are some good things as well:

1) I like the pickups, they sound like modernized PAFs to me -- don't plan to change them,

2) I like that there's ability to enable coil split which makes the instrument very versatile.

Image Harley Benton Fusion-III HSH Roasted FNT

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Harley Benton
  • Released in 2022
  • Average price : $377
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