Harley Benton Custom Line CLA-15M 4-stars Reviews

My first guitar

It's a great guitar for a great price have been playing it for 4 months without any issues. It's a great pick for a first guitar.

Amazing!!

Are there better guitars on the market? For sure.

But, in all honesty, you won't find a better guitar for this price. It is an amazing guitar with a lovely, warm sound.

I wouldn't have wanted a different one!

Fantastic sound

The sound is great, shave 2mm the saddle a put 0.11 Elixir nanowed strings and plays like a dream, the shape with a little cosmetics irregularities but nothing to worry is the reason to not give 5 stars

Good, but it needs a set-up out of the box.

Set-up:

Out of the box, it wasn't great. The action at the nut was okay, but it gradually got higher as you moved up the neck. I had to tighten the truss rod a quarter turn and sand 1.5mm off the bridge saddle to correct it. (That may not sound like much, but believe me, it is.) The frets were very scratchy, but level. I gave them a polish and now they're great. The tuners work great.

Looks:

1 slight blemish near the soundhole, but otherwise it's perfect.

Comfort:

The neck is rather thick and very flat, I suspect a 14" radius. This makes "thumb over the top" chords rather difficult. A lower radius would've been more comfortable for me.

Sound:

The stock strings were very dull. Replace them ASAP. Even with the new strings, the guitar sounded rather dull out of the box, however, after a week of heavy strumming it's starting to open up. If I could go back in time, I'd rather get the spruce version for some more clarity, but it's still a nice sound.

Great guitar for the price, but don't expect miracles

This is a great guitar, but a little disappointing after reading the reviews. Just keep your expectations realistic and you'll be very satisfied.

Pros: good sound, good intonation, nice playability

Cons: high action, sound a little thin

Overall good quality guitar

I like that the bass sounds are quite big although the guitar body is "smaller" size.

Build quality is amazing for the price in my opinion!

Guitar comes with quality set of strings. (Daddario EXP-16).

First impression on machineheads is maybe not that well although the guitar can be tuned quite well and also stays in tune for good amount of time.

After reading positive reviews I decided to order one and I would say it is a good purchase for the price . Everything is good except the frets level which need an extra work.

Great Deal

Great price. Well built and finished, easy to play. It's not a high end product but for the price its quite hard to find an instrument that is so well made. I've played many with a more appealing headstrock brand that weren't on par with this one.

great budget martin-alike

When it arrived with the action pretty high. When I removed the bridge saddle to shave it down, I was pleased to find there where several shims inserted, meaning I only had to remove a couple of these then restring it.

Tuners are adequate and hold tune well. I may well upgrade in the future, but they are fine for now.

The matte finish is really nice and the snow flake markers top the look off nicely. I own a vintage gibson all mahogany acoustic and its not a million miles away tone wise.

Stopped me from wanting to spend 10 times as much to satisfy my Martin 0015m craving.