Harley Benton CST-24T Black Cherry Flame Reviews

Best Guitar Ever

Very surprising quality! Plays heavenly.

CST 24T

Beautiful guitar, great finish, sounds super! This might be my favorite Harley Benton yet!

Good one

Good made guitar. The C shape neck is wonderful. Ift needs some tuning. But that's normally.

An awesome guitar

I bought this guitar having read a previous review which stated how shocked the customer was at the quality, having, “taken a punt” on this guitar. After I set it up to my liking, this guitar became my favourite electric guitar that I had ever owned. It’s a beautiful, well made guitar with very good sound. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed playing it and would recommend, “taking a punt” yourself if you fancy it? I honestly have nothing negative to say apart from slight fret buzz around 14th fret on A&D strings which I could not fix, (I’m good, but not a luthier and for the money it’s fantastic).

A very well made, beautiful guitar that is a pleasure to play.

An awesome value for money buy!

Good guitar, amazing for the price.

This guitar arrived in great condition and looks stunning. I personally find the pickups far too hot (output). For the money however, you cant go wrong

good guitar!

not an SE, but it has its own vibe. the only thing is the nut. once you replace it or work on it for a while, you have a great guitar with good weight, and awesome finish

Best PRS style guitar that doesn't say PRS on the headstock that I've seen

I really like this guitar, I've used it as a bit of a mod platform but overall it was and is great. I swapped out the bridge for a FR Rail Tail, changed the pickups to Duncan 59 and JB's, added locking tuners. It is now the best 80's metal guitar I've ever played.

Excellent Product

It's a beautiful guitar with a great sound for the price, I don't even know they can make this guitar for this price.

The finishes could be a little bit better.

Don't wait another minute, buy one!

I'm a former mid to late 90's metalhead rhythm guitarist, now a blues, classic rock, metal, everything-I-can-learn basement guitar god. This guitar DOES IT ALL, and does it in sexy style. Beautiful finish over a gorgeous flame top, and it sounds and plays as good as it looks. The Roswell pickups deliver excellent tone, brightness, and clarity. Frets are well-polished and comfortable. Tuning stability is 10/10. I have NO COMPLAINTS about this guitar. I am in love. Buy one!

Great Guitar

This Guitar is very well made, good nut, good action, well setup, nice neck. The pickups are unusable though, too hot, muffled and unclear/distorted tones. The split coil function is nice, the guitar looses some output, but I like it. If you can change the pickups on your own this is a very good guitar, beautifull, confortable and well built. I can't see anyone liking these pickups though.

Good

Good for the price.

Stunner!

I think there has been a mistake made. A £1,000 guitar has been delivered, but I was only charged £200. Absolutely gorgeous! Stunning. Just out the box, and not a mark on it, flawless. 3 days to arrive from Germany? Nailed it. The neck feels perfect, playability super. I might drop the action a slight bit, but only because that's how I play it. In time, the tuners may be changed, but at the moment they're just fine. I'm looking forward to playing this more and more. Definitely a

lovely guitar!

Quality control

Looks very good, but I dont think this is a good guitar for beginners because the neck was so rough and not a pleasure to play with, and let's just say the guitar would need a lot of work to make it a decent instrument to play. The whole neck binding on one side had brown marks on it I couldn't scrape off, and the binding near the neck pickup had a big crack and looked very ugly.

Really bad finish and quality check on this guitar.

Cant recommend this guitar or brand at this price point. I've had guitars at this price point that are so much better.

Fantastic guitar

I really like this guitar! The neck is fabulous and the guitar is just stunning. I'm thinking about buying another one in blue with P90's.

surprised by the quality

I was surprised by the quality of this guitar particularly the neck although mine came with some headstock damage which they discounted for , and 3 frets were filed poorly overall I love this neck . I thinks if this came with jumbo frets it would be my favorite guitar of all.

I own 5 guitars that list from $1500 to $4,200 this guitar holds it own . as a disclaimer I have to say I replaced the pickups and the pots. but it sounded very good with the stock parts I am just very pickey about the sound. P.S I am 72 years old and have been a professional musician most of my life, 15 years on the road with varous bands some famous and some not

Very well put-together

This is superb value and plays excellently. The neck is thin like an Ibanez Wizard, and mine arrived well-intonated with just a 1/8th of a turn to the truss rod required to get the action super-low. The pickups are fine as humbuckers, although the bridge can sound a bit weedy when split.

The top is, I understand, a very thin veneer and now that I look at it to write this review I notice there's my flame finish is a little patchy and uneven. But, so what? Tuners work fine, the frets are perfectly level, well-finished and polished. The wilkinson bridge arrived set flat to the body (dive only) and that's how I've left it because I'm really pleased with the action and don't want to mess with it! I'm not a huge whammy bar user but thought it's worth going for the T version in order to have fully adjustable saddles. Tuning stability is great. The roseacer fretboard is very dark, arrived dry but after oiling looks OK. The back of the neck is gloss, I've sanded other necks to satin but this is a bit new and too nice mess with for now. There's really very little to find fault with this guitar, and it's given me full confidence to order a Fusion and a Tele next.

Great guitar.

I dont have a vast guitar collection, but this has become my favorite guitar. The only con I found is that it's a bit heavy, but its's no big deal. If you are just starting out or just want a side hobby, this is one of the best choices available.

Black cherry flavor

This guitar made in Vietnam is the best inexpensive guitar I have ever played and this is by far the best value for money.

The arched flamed maple top with "black cherry flame" finish is almost perfect. The neck has a high-gloss finish that doesn’t feel sticky. The attractive binding is not only on the body but also on the neck. The frets were perfect and it plays great all the way up to the 24th fret.

Its warm tone has plenty of sustain, supported by two Roswell humbuckers controlled by 3-way switch. The double coil pickups can be split using a push/pull tone knob, increasing the range of available sounds. Thus, CST-24T can cover almost any genre

of music- blues, rock, fusion, funk and even heavy metal.

The Harley Benton CST-24T stacks up very well against the PRS SE electric guitar which is a much more expensive guitar.

If you dont like humbuckers and you want single coil tones then check out the Harley Benton CST-24T P90 version, it’s also a great guitar for the same money.

The only problem with my guitar was the fretboard - it was dry and the colour was lighter orange (jatoba) instead of dark brown.

Overall I would recommend this guitar to anyone who's looking for a budget instrument with a great value.

Excellent bang for your buck!

I wish guitars had this quality when I began playing In the early 2000's. For the amount you pay on this model, a set neck, roswell pickups, wilkinson bridge, coil tap etc you get a decently fair guitar and at this price It's actually excellent.

There's a few very minor stratches or scuffs on the very bottom of the fret board, pickup guards and where the strings go through the bottom of the guitar but again at under 200 quid, It's excellent, plays well (nothing special) but good enough and nicely too, the trem system is a bit tight out the box but I don't use that much anyway.

A guitar at under £200, with lovely aesthetics and good playability and great features is a steal. It doesn't feel cheap at all and can't wait to fully set it up to how I like and get a real feel for it, might install some lock in tuners as is my preference.

After a month or so of use I hard tailed the bridge, installed locking tuners and also replaced the nut, small mods that have turned this guitar into a very tightly and consistently tuned instrument and also improved sustain and tone instantly. I am really impressed and I can't put the guitar down...love the pickups, unique and characteristic in certain sounds.

I love this guitar! For it's price is magnificent. The only negativity it's is weight.