Harley Benton CST-24T Emerald Flame Reviews

Bargain

Everything you could possibly want from an electric guitar at a fraction of the price. Simply incredible value for money.

Charlie's CST24T

I've played this guitar on several songs with my band, and I love the way it sounds. It has a solid feel and sound with some warmth to it even when playing some heavier songs. I highly recommend this guitar for anyone looking for a high-quality instrument at an affordable price.

Nice guitar.

Sounds good ,plays good, looks good, covers all the bases.

Buy one.

Beautiful guitar, plays just as well as it looks. Smooth frets, not overly heavy but solid. I’m not sure how they can sell these at this cost.

Great Guitar

Buy one great guitar for the price!

Amazing Value!

I bought this as a guitar i could leave in our rehearsal room and it did not disappoint! Great features with the ability to coil tap the pickups and a really high quality Emerald Flame finish. Good sounding pickups and nice to use.

Sure it doesn't play like my PRS but then it is 1/10th of the price !

In summary it is a fantastic buy and well worth considering if you are on a budget or need a decent back up instrument.

great guita.

when i got this guitar i was 1st amazed by the green emerald top.

i did a good check over of the guitar and found no flaws what-so-ever.

and when i plugged it in and played it, i was excited as can be with the quality of the sound i heard. in fact i hated to admit it but, it played as good as my les paul. stays in tune every time. great guitar!

WOW!

I absolutely love love love this guitar!

It's my very first HB guitar that I have bought but it'll definitely not be my last. It's gorgeous, it sound amazing and has awesome features.

The choice was between this colour and a Paradise Flame but I am very glad that I picked the Emerald Green one. It's absolutely gorgeous with a stunning finish and I cannot complement it enough! Put it together with a purple strap and you have a perfect quirky "The Joker" finish.

Let's get serious though for a second, there's a lot of good reviews out there, both on the website and on Youtube and I can only tell you that they are telling the truth. My guitar when it arrived already had a very good action, no sharp frets - and get this: it was in tune! -

I just took it out of the box and started playing and couldn't put it down.

The pickups are great and I love the pull-push switch to get a single coil out of a humbucker. Rock, Metal, Blues and Clean, this guitar can do it all.

I am seriously happy with my purchase and together with my freshly ordered Boss Katana MKII 100, there's no song, no genre that safe from us anymore.

Listen to your gut, it's always right and get this guitar! ;-)

Disclaimer: Get it at your own risk because you may become addicted to this guitar. :-D

Wow!

I wanted a PRS style guitar, and had seen this in green and thought it looked pretty good. And for £230, it seemed like a good buy - You tubers were giving the CST-24T rave reviews, so I thought I'd try it.

It took a while to get here, as they seem to be quite popular. I think I waited about 7 or 8 weeks for mine.

It arrived, and after a quick setup, a stretch of the strings, reduce the action and check the intonation, it was ready to go. And boy, did it go.

The Roswell pickups are brilliant, although I find the bridge pickup has a little too much treble for my ear, but easily fixed by rolling off the tone knob.

It has all the tones you need for a humbucking guitar, and will easily coil-split if you want them to.

Downsides? There aren't many, especially for the cost; but for my 2p's worth, here are a couple of things I might do with mine:

Change out the tuners. They're pretty good, but the ratio is something like 14:1, which for me means it's sometimes tricky to get the tuning done quickly. May swap them for a set of 18:1 locking tuners.

Change the knobs from the chrome silver ones to black cylindrical ones. I think the silver ones are a bit too much "in your face".

These are just my preference, but you could leave it as stock, and have no downsides at all.

Finally, I have a PRS SE Custom 24, and I compared the two. The difference? About £600. The CST24 stands up very well against the PRS. The PRS, in my opinion is better, but is it £600 better? No, I don't think so.

Combine the CST24 with a Harley Benton Tube15 and you've got a small gig-ready setup that'll give you almost everything you need for under £500. Throw in a couple of pedals, and you're good to go.

If you've read this far, just go buy one. It's a proper guitar for proper guitarists.

Simply can not be beat at this price.

An incredible guitar at this price point. Would easily be a $500 to $600 guitar if it had a different name on the headstock. Pick ups may feel a bit hot but manageable for sure. Only noticeable issue is the nut was cut a bit short on the bass side but this does not effect the feel and at this price is a very minor detail. The finish is incredible and the cream binding and pick up rings compliment the deep emerald green oh so well. Easily has become my number one standard and drop D guitar.

A wonderful PRS-style guitar

Harley Benton continues to impress with it's lineup of designs. This guitar plays great, sounds great and is pure eye-candy to look at. The overall build and playability quality are far beyond what the price tag says and is comparable to guitars costing three or four times as much.

Better than some guitars at double the price

I bought this as a present for my daughter. After reading lots of reviews and watching lots of videos I settled on this guitar. It appeared to be incredible value for money and it really is. For £200 you really don't expect much but this is not just good for the price, it's just good full stop.

Only a couple things. The colour isn't as dark as it appears on the website, it's a shade brighter.

The fret board was very dry, a critisim mentioned in most reviews. A little lemon oil on it seems to have cured that though so no big problem.

The trem is useless and puts it straight out of tune. Just bin the arm, don't use it and it's fine.

Overall, it's absolutely amazing for the money and the couple flaws mentioned above are really just being picky on a guitar at this price. My £1100 Sterling bass had more flaws than this

Brilliant

This is one class guitar !

Another Harley Benton hit!!!!!

Great guitar!

Bought this beauty not long ago and had an absolute blast with it! It feels great in hands, it plays well and most importantly, it sounds awesome. Tuners are also quite good quality. If I absolutely had to find a bad thing about it, it would be a really really small indentation on top of the guitar, close to where strap is attached but the indent is so small and not noticable unless you reaaaaally look for imperfections that its almost not worth meantioning. Indent is almost unnoticable, I accidentally stumbled upon it when I was moving my fingers across the guitar and slightly felt it. Everything else is great in my opinion, at least so far, and for this price its a really great guitar.

Verdict: If you are in a debate wether to buy it or not, buy it, you won't regret it, believe me!

Poor Rascal's Special (PRS)

It's Not Right But It's Okay

For the money Extremely impressed

Assumed build quality would be average, wrong, as good as my Epiphones if not better, Pickups better then expected as well, only letdown were crappy knobs (easy cheap fix)

Quality Control Lacking

This guitar was shipped half way across the world so it required a guitar set up. I did not dock marks for this.

Cons:

-Green paint overspray on the binding

-Vibrato claw was not installed correctly, claw was not straight

-Screws in vibrato was all different heights which caused tuning

stability issues.

-Fretboard stain/paint is also on the binding

-Binding near the 24th fret looks like someone took a rough file to

it.

-"Flame" top is really hard to see, the back of the guitar looks

much better.

-Makes a scratchy noise when bending the strings but not audible

through the amp.

-Assuming the cavities have shield paint but it does not cover the

whole area. Lots of places where the paint is thin or it's wood

showing.

-Vibrato arm likes to fall out when not in use

Pros:

-Most of my issues are cosmetics

-Very low action

-Tuning stability after adjust claw and vibrato screws

-Using the vibrato doesn't cause the guitar to detune

-High output pickups that are very clear sounding

-Very nice shade of green but the flame top doesn't come through

-There was an attempt at shielding the cavities and there's foil on

the back of the cover.

-No noticeable hum even in split coil mode.

Overall, I feel like I got a B-stock guitar shipped to me even though I paid for an A-stock. I like how it sounds and how it plays but I am undecided if I should return and try for a different one to see if I just got a bad one. I know it's only a $319 guitar but I have had a few cheaper guitars that had better quality paint/finish control. If you don't care about the flame top or paint overspray, get this guitar!

Sustain for days!

As a bedroom musician, having multiple guitars is almost a must. When I ordered the CST-24, I was expecting a good-looking guitar which I would have to replace the humbuckers of, but the first time I plugged it in and played an E power chord, the sustain really suprised me - it outperforms my higher-end guitars by a lot, not to mention the tone was actually quite good. The coil-splitting option adds versatility, which is much appreciated too.

The looks, needless to say, are stellar (green is, after all, my favorite color), and the quality of the build is pretty good overall, and the few quality issues that I did encounter were easily fixable, and that's coming from someone who's not an expert when it comes to tinkering.

Something to consider before buying - this guitar has a vibrato, so I'd suggest upgrading to locking tuners (HB brand worked fine for me).

Buy this guitar. You won't regret it.

It arrived today and straight out of the box the action was spot on and the intonation is as close as any of my other more expensive guitars (perfection is for the gods). Beautiful looking guitar. Nice and slim. Feels good against the body. Toggle switch gives a wide range of sounds on the pickups. Nice wide fretboard / fret radius. For the price, I'm very impressed. You just can't go wrong with this and because it doesn't cost the same as a small country's deficit, (PRS, I'm looking at you) you can always spend a few pennies on modding it if that is your 'thang'. Can be used for all the genres.

BEST THING OUT THERE FOR THE MONEY!

YEP! It is the best guitar out there for the money. Like most of the Harley Benton (I owned 5 HB guitar so far), no other guitar brand can beat the HB sound, build, and looks for the price. This one compare to my PRS 24, I would say this can really go head to Head. I use this as my primary recording guitar.