Harley Benton CST-24 Black Cherry Flame DLX Reviews

Great value for money

No quality concerns or flaws that I have found. Looks and feels lovely. Needed some setup after delivery. Excellent guitar for this price, bettering cheaper lines from better-known manufacturers. Wrap-around bridge would not adjust to get intonation right - I will swap this for a Gotoh 510. Very hot pickups, seem OK.

Harley Benton CST-24 Black Cherry Flame DLX

The cst-24 black cherry Flame guitar with the P90 pickups really adds diversity to the different types of sounds that you can create with this guitar. I've had it now for 3 years and I am as much in love with it today as I was the first day I got it! Very durable and stays in tune and is very easy to play with the low action and a lot of fun! Highly recommend!

Quality issues

My first HB. From a distance it looks fantastic, but it does have some quality control issues. The neck has a spot where the laquer has chipped off and the neck binding is also poorly finished on the other side. Weirdly the other side of the neck is much cleaner than the top side (the side you see).

Not really impressed by the tuners either. Im' retuning the guitar but I'm going to give HB another chance. I'll likely go for a SC custom plus and see if paying a bit more will make a difference in fit and finish too.

1st rate

Best guitar I have ever owned.

Really nice feel

I've owned this model for quite a while now. The neck is a really nice slim c that feels great.

The intonation and wrap around bridge are spot on. So nice for palm muting.

I enjoy it so much I've upgraded with locking tuners and a seymour duncan invader in the bridge for higher gain play.

The stock pickups are OK. I left the neck in place for warmer tones. However if you want a high gain monster I wouldn't say it's the right fit. Some people say they're a bit too muddy.

Quality has been perfect. I have no issues at all with any of the wiring or pots. Rolling back volume feels resonsive.

Pickup change was a breeze.

The top is so nice I often catch myself staring at it across the room while watching TV.

I love this guitar and it has fueled me to sell the PRS I owned that was almost the same guitar.

I now have another Harley Benton on the way thanks to the very good quality and enjoyable experience I've had with this one.

A great budget beginner with so much modding potential.

I'm in Canada and after everything was said and done the price was about $375

So much better than a squire bullet or infinity to me. Just buy one

Great piece of kit

For the price you can’t beat these guitars. I have changed the heads on it and it feels and sounds even better but the guitar was perfectly fine to begin with- I just like putting my own stamp somewhere on my instruments. Would thoroughly recommend .

PRS Copy

Very nice PRS copy, the tapped coil is a nice feature, very versatile sounding guitar. Gorgeous finish. Set up was a little off, but easily tweeked. Always wanted a PRS but too pricey for me, this is a great compromise at a great price. I actually purchased 2 guitars at the same time, as the freight was basically the same for 2 guitars as it was for 1. You can't beat that 🤟😎

Beautiful looking guitar

Slight buzzing off strings, nothing that can't be fixed.

Fantastic Guitar!

I own several guitars including some very similar to this but more expensive, and I can say that I am impressed with the quality overall. The CST-24 does not feel cheap and I could not see any major blemishes. I love the jumbo stainless frets and the way the guitar feels. The wraparound tail piece is very comfortable as well. This is a lot of quality for the price. I will be buying more in the future.

Great guitar, regardless of price!

I bought this on a whim, just to see if the other good reviews could possibly be right (for such an inexpensive guitar). Yep...it's awesome. It's really light, sounds great, plays well, and stays in tune! Oh, and it looks great, too.

great product

exactly what I wanted. great guitar. sounds great and plays very well.

Awsome guitar

Cons - the guitar was all in a small wooden crumb, but for first guitar

its very cool choise

Fantastic Value

I recently decided to get back into the guitar after a 15 year hiatus and picked this up as a supposedly cheap and cheerful 're-entry' level instrument. I have been pleasantly surprised by the level of quality here though and my only regret is that this level of quality was not available when I first started playing!

The range of tones and sounds you can get out of this thing is superb, the coil split feature just puts this thing on another level in terms of its flexibility and I think I'll find it difficult to go back to a guitar without that feature.

So far the fixtures and fittings have not given me any trouble though I may replace the machine heads eventually but I am by no means in a rush to do so.

Looks wise the guitar looks fantastic in the flesh and the flamed top is just gorgeous. The cream coloured trimmings really compliment it and it just looks cool, so you really feel drawn to pick it up and play when you see it which is important I feel!

As far as negatives go, there are some minor finishing flaws to the cream binding on the body and a small, but deep scratch on the neck but nothing that bothers me too much. There is also a bit of excess glue on the fret board around some of that binding there but I expect this will come out easily enough when I get around to cleaning and treating it.

Overall, for the money? You can't really go too far wrong with this thing.

Beautiful finished Guitar.

I’ve had this guitar one year already and of all my guitars this is the one I go to most.The finish and sound is way beyond anything that you would have purchased in the 70’s at this price point.In this day and age we are very lucky to have such guitars of this quality.I would have no problem in recommending this model.Great guitar at an unbelievable price.

Happy with Purchase

I was expecting the guitar to be darker with the color of Black Cherry Flame. It is much lighter in color but has become one of my go to guitars. Pleased with overall quality and function.

Great guitar

The overall finish was much better than I expected. I needed to tweak the action a little to suit me but very playable out of the box. A really great piece of kit. I will definitely be back for more!

Great guitar

I can't fault this guitar. Looks great,plays great straight out of the box.

I didn't have to do a thing to it. The fit and finish is as good or better than some of my much more expensive guitars. Buy one you won't be disappointed.

My second HB. Both are fantastic guitars. Not just because of the price but just because they are good.

Extremely satisfied

This is my 2nd electric Harley Benton guitar. I am very happy with everything about this CST-24. The set up is right on. I just had to tune it up.

Love this guitar

Excellent quality, great playability and push/pull button is an extra that gives a variety of sounds. More than expected

Fantastic Value

This is the first electric guitar I have bought and checked out a lot of online reviews to decide that Harley Benton was where I wanted to start. I was not disappointed. Obviously quality has a few issues, but came well set up out of the box. Made a couple adjustments to action and lubricated the nut and it was good to go. Not sure about the exact terminology but it feels like the Low E string is a little closer to the edge of the neck (it doesn't take much for it to accidentally slip off the neck when playing) may just be my lack of practice or due to narrow neck. Not sure but I love the versatility and for the price it is an excellent value in my mind.