SC-450Plus LD Vintage Series : Pretty nice guitar...

I really like this guitar. I've heard that, if you want to work on guitars, Harley Benton is a good choice, because they are so cheap, but the woodworking is great. Mine needed a bit of setup, because the strings were high, but I got my screwdriver and Allen wrench, and I was able to get the string height to a level that was comparable to my Gibson traditional Les Paul. The size and dimensions are actually very close to my Gibson. It's fun to play. The pickups are a little harsher than my Gibson, but I can adjust my settings and find something I'm happy with.

Not bad for such an affordable guitar. The tuning machines are a little sketchy, but I bought some new tuning machines, and I'm going to switch them out at some point. The only things I can complain about really are that the veneer was coming up by the neck, (you'd have to look very closely to notice it) and it was cracking a little around the screw hole underneath the pick guard. Both of them are out of view, and you'd have to look very closely to notice that. Other than that, the color was called "lemondrop," but it looks more like cheddar cheese. Over all, these complaints don't make me unhappy, because of the price of this guitar. I'm going to take it out to some open mic nights soon. The only other thing I can nitpick about is that the tone and volume knobs don't have an indicator for where "zero" is. So, if you turn the volume up to "five," you turn the knob, but what are you lining the numbers up with? No indicator... I took a marker and made a little dot underneath the knob to keep track of the point that I'm lining the volume number up with... Anyway, aside from a few minor complaints, I like this guitar. I put some thin strings on it, and it's extremely playable.