Harley Benton CST-24 Black Cherry Flame DLX 5-stars Reviews

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!

1st rate

Best guitar I have ever owned.

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 🤟😎

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.

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

Excellent Value and Quality

I was skeptical of ordering a guitar online, from overseas, sight unseen but at $200 US shipped it was half the price of a used SE so I gave it a shot. I was not disappointed! Excellent weight, quality fretwork, and nice sounding pickups. The photos do not do justice of how good this guitar looks in person. The neck feel is superb, I tend to grab this off the wall over my American Strat. I was extremely impressed...so much so my next 2 purchases were HB guitars, and I'm looking for more!

Heavy is good

This is a solid guitar in every way.I got the fixed bridge for sustain and in combo with the weight,this delivers.Great look and fretboard etc and pickups are indeed good enough to keep on here.Along with the coil tap it is not boring.

Quality, at an affordable price

Don't know how you guys do it, but please, keep on doing it.

Don't know what the relationship between the UK and the EU will be like in future, but if favourable, I will return for more!

Lost one star for quality because there is a dent in the finish on the back on the edge of the body relief. Apart from that, action a little high, no big deal for an experienced guitarist.

WOW

I was blown away when I first saw this guitar. I did not expect such a deeply flamed top. Stunning.

For this price point you have to expect a few minor finishing flaws which there are if you really look close. But all I care about is playability- as in a straight neck with level frets with a low action. Check, check, and check. The fact that it is beautiful is a bonus. This is my 3rd HB guitar. I put in a request for a good quality one with the previously mentioned attributes and they delivered. Did I just get lucky or did this actually get picked for me? Either way I am a happy (guitar-playing) camper.

Set-up out of the box was....well the neck relief and action height were good, but it was not even closely intonnated properly. Takes some patience and time but I was able to set the intonnation and now it sounds spot on.

Lastly, compared to the PAF Roswells in my SC-Custom, these HAF's are definately higher output but there is a mid/treble harshness to them that I'm not in love with. Ok for now but I will likely upgrade the pups. I hate the idea of spending as much on pups as I did on the guitar but for this one I surely will.

H-B CST-24 B C F DLX

A month ago I purchased a CST-24 Hardtail for myself was quite impressed. So was my oldest son who just happened to have a birthday coming up, so I ordered one for him this time a CST-24 Hardtail Black Cherry Flame DLX. Well it arrived in 12 days in fine condition. Fit & Finish well executed, even in tune, will have to reset the neck a little, and intonation but that's to be expected. All in all nice workmanship, finish, and price. I'm quite sure he'll be as happy/impressed as was I... Again good job guys.

Can't fault it. Played it at a gig and went down a storm.

Amazing looking and sounding Guitar

The sound of this guitar and all the volume controls and quality of the pickups on this guitar are well beyond my expectations and should get 7-8 stars at least for just those features. I play mainly jazz-funk, reggae and some rock and this comes up with all the sounds and really I should mention that Carlos Santana should endorse this guitar (LOL). On the negative side , I had to pay additional money for a set-up, usually the case with budget guitars and thinking about changing the machine heads, but as is it is really playable and enhanced my playing and sound range (and also got my long lost Carlos sound back). I highly recommend this guitar for all genres of music.