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

HB CST-24T

Very impressed with this guitar. The Fretwork was fantastic, playability is superb, and it is a beautiful instrument. Definitely will buy from them again.

Best VFM guitar!

I am very impressed with this instrument!

A nice, versatile guitar!

The knobs have a great feeling and they are smooth and responsive!

No neck dive.

Pickups are a liitle too dirty for my taste.

But overall, too much guitar for the money!

Well worth the money

Although I wouldn't say it is a PRS clone as far as sound, it is still a very high quality guitar with the ability to get a lot of different tones. The neck is SUPER easy to play.

Excellent guitar for the price

This is the second CST-24T I have bought. The first was a blue one but I sold it after a while because I wasn't really happy with the pickups and didn't want to spend much more upgrading a ¤222 guitar.

Learned recently that they changed the pickups to Roswells and read good reviews so took a chance on another one.

Definitely a score. Beautiful guitar and the pickups are lovely. No urge to 'fix' anything....well, not much anyway. These pickups to my ear are very similar to the Duncan Jazz/JB set....no bad thing. The coilsplit sound is typically thin and weedy....half a humbucker is NOT a good singlecoil...so I wired in a resistor (about 4Kohm) in the grounding wire and now you get one and a half coils, sort of, when split which sounds better. This is easy and cheap and should be standard practice when they wire up a guitar in the factory.

The guitar arrived amazingly well setup for a budget guitar. Frets were nice and smooth. I've had new Gibson's that were worse. It was even intonated properly! But as I'm fussy and do guitar setups a lot anyway I gave it another gentle fret polish and worked on the nut and vibrato. Lemon oiled the fretboard. It wouldn't stay in tune very well out of the box but after smoothing and lubing fretslots and adjusting screws and stuff the vibrato works great and stays in tune really well. Plays great now.

The workmanship and finish is REALLY

good. My girlfriend even wants to have the guitar hanging in the sitting room so she can look at it! Love the deep red and black finish.

The only negative I have with this guitar....and other Harley Bentons I've bought...is the weight. Way too heavy. Not a huge issue with me this time as I own other lighter guitars to use onstage and will just use this one sitting down, but I would've preferred it to be less heavy.

Harley Benton should sort this issue out and get a supply of less dense timber for their products.

But other than that I'm very pleased with the guitar and would recommend it.

Amazed!

Considering the price of the guitar, it is really good! The build quality on the guitar is really good! The sound is also good, and with the push and pull switch is really nice and gives a lot of versatility. I was also amazed by how it does not go out of tune when using the whammy bar. Really good guitar and it also looks amazing! Recommended!

Edit: I have been using the guitar for a week, and I have noticed that the fret ends stick out a little bit and scratch my thumb. Not that big of a deal but still, I have to remove a star from quality!

OUTSTANDING

I had a PRS SE Custom 24 that I had issues with, it wouldn't stay in tune even after putting £100 schaller locking heads on it. So I took it back to the store and I thought I would give this a bash after reading such good reviews. Man was I surprised, It's just incredible. Great sustain, play-ability, option of coil tap for versatility with tone. Stays in tune wonderfully, the pick ups sound mean for the price range. The quality of wood used for the body and neck and overall it's a great instrument, especially for this price. I'd say it's on par with my Gibson Les Paul Studio which was 4 times the price. Overall highly recommend for beginner to advanced level of playing, buy one and you'll see for yourself!

Incredible value

I have owned this guitar for 2 weeks now. I use it at church and at home. I have no "Cons" but I have many "Pros": It stays in tune, It sounds bright and clear, it pushes my amp into "Breakup" really easily.....I like that a lot! The fret board feels great. Its very easy to play. It arrived to me in California (5,600 miles away) in tune and with correct intonation and the string action in just right! And just look at it..........its gorgeous! You cannot beat this guitar for the price. Even other guitars at twice the price can't compete with this one!