Harley Benton CST-24T Black Cherry Flame 5-stars 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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

Excellent.

Excellent. That's all I can say.

My favourite

Can’t put this guitar up all my other guitars haven’t come out of their case since receiving this beauty.

How do you do it ?

Tonnes of quality in this guitar for very little money,

Excellent choice.

What A Guitar

I have owned High End PRS Guitars so, had to try this model.

Fantastic Guitar, in all aspects, finish, set up, comfort, balance, sound quality, playability, neck comfort.... It's all there for a 20th of the cost of a PRS... The Buyer will not be disappointed.

Outstanding

I ordered this to the States and that was the first concern was it getting here in one piece. It arrived in perfect shape so that concern was over. After a little set up and string change to my preferred strings this thing sings. I love that it has the P*s kinda look but isn't all together trying to be exactly like the P*s. It's got it's own thing and pulls it off elegantly. I was expecting a just slightly less quality version of what the guitar is based on from the hundreds of reviews I watched before ordering this since I couldn't be there in Germany to actually pick one up and play it for myself. The humbucker option is smooth and highly useful and I'm super surprised at the single coil split. Most guitars struggle with getting that right. Even the Prs's but I actually get it right on with this guitar. I have a couple of Strats and the CST24t nails that single coil sound. At least it seems to for me with my amp set up. Nice option. I won't have to bring 2 or 3 guitars to a gig. Bring this one and do a simple toggle switch and/or pick up split and I'm there. I'm Major picky about tone and feel so it nails both those departments for me. I can also say this is the very first guitar with jumbo medium frets that I actually like with these frets. I was going to have them brought down by a really good Luther I know here when I got it but cancelled that plan. It's weird how I definitely feel the frets predominantly over the wood from the fret board and I usually like feeling closer to the fret board itself but this feels natural enough as is and it takes me in new directions which I really like. I could go on about this guitar but that'd make this review really long. Just beautiful finish. Pretty flawless on this specimen. It doesn't make you want to stop buying Prs's. I have a Prs and plan to buy another one. If anything it makes me want to buy more Prs's and Harley's. I got a couple more Harley's picked out too now that I see they're level of quality. Be back soon;-)

Looks great, feels great and sounds great.

The setup is perfect and it stays in tune well. I haven’t played with the tremolo yet.Color is a brighter cherry red with some orange shining through at certain angles. The Fretboard does have tiny pits or cracks in it that I assume is a natural characteristic of the wood used. My daughters Strat with an Indian laurel fretboard has the same tiny cracks. It doesn’t affect the feel at all. The body is two pieces and the neck is 4 pieces. I bought this guitar for my daughter and she loves it. I will definitely buy another Harley Benton for myself.