Harley Benton CST-24HB TOL Tobacco Flame 5-stars Reviews

WONDERFUL

PRS on a budget? No, it's it a guitar in it's own right. I didn't have to do anything to it, it played great straight out of the box. The tuners are smooth as are the controls. The finish is floorless(?). The pickups are far better than they should be. It would be cheap if was 5 times the price!

An amazing deal!

This was my first Harley Benton guitar. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I've owned guitars in a similar price range as well as ones that were 5x more expensive i.e. USA Telecasters, strats, etc. This one certainly holds its own.

The fit and finish on this guitar is fantastic. It's a real looker. It has a great tobacco burst and a wonderfully figured top. The back has a distinct mahogany grain and is rich in color. The fret ends were all polished with no sharp edges.

The tone from this guitar is great. A solid growl from the bridge pickup, and the neck pickup has a nice round tone while retaining some spunk. The middle position with the two pickups together gives a sort of spanky tone similar to the middle position on a stratocaster with the added depth and fullness of a humbucker. I anticipated changing out some electronics or making some adjustments to improve the guitar, but at this point I have no plans to change anything.

The guitar arrived in the USA completely in tune, safely packaged, and ready to rock. I have no doubt that this is going to be my new number one guitar.

A great buy

Guitar arrived 2 days ago and looks superb. How anyone can make a guitar like this

for so little amazes me. There are a few cosmetic blemishes bur nothing worth a mention. Out of the box the action was way high so sorted that out and gave the truss rod a tweek now it plays nicely.

Sound wise pretty good considering the price. The humbuckers a little darker than the rest of my guitars, more jazzy sounding but still very good.

I have a lot of USA made guitars some costing 10 to 20 times what I paid for this but got to say they are not 10 to 20 times better.

Would definitely reccommend this guitar and will probably buy a few more Harley Bentons if this one is anything to go by.

Absolutely amazing!

I received this guitar 2 days after i ordered like always!

It came well packaged with all the tools you need to adjust this amazing beauty!

Out of the box there were no flaws on the guitar,string action was a little high,but no big issues.

So i changed the strings (the daddarios it came with were ok...but its my normal routine with new guitars) and the i gave it a setup.

20 minutes later i played it through my eleven rack and its a very versatile guitar. the pickups got a nice charakter and work great with gain too.

The overall build quality of this guitar is just stunning and unbelievable for the price!

Highly recommended!!

Lovely guitar - fantastic value

I purchased this Harley Benton CST-24TOL along with a number of other HB guitars, 5 in all.

For the record, I have been playing guitar for over 30 years as a semi-pro and have a number of expensive Fenders, Gibsons, Brian Moore etc .

I was really blown away by the quality of this guitar when I pulled it from the box, the finish is great, and although the flame top obviously can't be right up there with the likes of PRS it is still a respectable effort. The neck is quite comfortable, if feels ...grippy...but not too chunky..I have small hands so I prefer smaller necks but I've played this guitar for a few hours no problem. The frets are quite well finished, no sharp edges, and seem quite polished. The action was slightly higher than I prefer but I easily lowered the bridge a couple of turns to adjust that, no fret buzz , I can bend strings higher up with no choking. I changed the strings immediately to 9-42 set (came with 10-46) and oiled the fretboard at the same time.

I checked the truss rod and it seems to be at the end of its relief so If I wanted to straighten the neck I wouldn't be able to unfortunately, hopefully I won't need to.

The hardware is fine too, good tuners, reasonably good pickups (Wilkinson) not too hot but definately good for blues, rock, jazz and even a bit of twang in the middle position. All in all, well pleased with this guitar and I will probably buy one of the other Harley Bentons PRS alike..Harley Benton CST-24T Paradise Amber Flame to go with it.

I'll do some other reviews on the Harley Bentons I got too...there were some other crackers! Well pleased with this one.