Harley Benton Custom Line CLD-1048SCE NS Reviews

Harley Benton Custom Line CLD-1048SCE NS

Guitar is absolutely amazing good quality made! Nice and clear sound! I love it

Great

no issues out of the box, sounds great!

Sounds excellent

Bought for a beginner. Excellent. Now more members of the family are playing on it. Good place for fingers.

Incredible!

I am a new guitar player. This guitar was recommended by a friend, and did not disappoint! The 48mm nut is awesome for my large fingers. The sound is incredible! The quality of workmanship and shipping were amazing. Ordered my 2nd guitar tonight!

Great guitar! A++

Harley Benton never disappoints!

I'm movin' to GERMANY!

The Guitar was GREAT in every aspect. About the only guitars you can find in the USA with at LEAST a 1 3/4" wide nut are Seagull, Alverez, Martin...and this guitar also has a "matte" finish to the back of the neck( I learned my lesson, and that is the ONLY neck I will even PLAY).

Add the electronics, stays in tune, the look and feel...the PRICE, this is "heaven on earth" to ME! And I have too many guitars to COUNT(top of the line, to "crappola").

The help I got from the great people here was amazing.

Got it in THREE days, and in good shape.

Could NOT be any happier with it :)

Great for the price

I have this guitar for more than half a year and it's great. No issues in general with the guitar, it sounds great at least for the price and the things you get with it - in built tuner and fishman electronics. Nut is wider than "normal" but it's great for fingerstyle and it's still comfortable to play 99% of the chords. I had my hands on Yamaha F310 and I prefer this guitar 24/7

Neatly done. Frets do not stick out, the neck is straight. The strings are not too high, it's easy to play (if you already have calluses from playing, as it usually happens). The neck is wide, like classical guitars, it will be good for those who are used to the classics. Beautiful, sonorous guitar.

Perfect!

Great instrument, top in its price category! High quality materials, without any defects. Sound is full, rich and loud, after few weeks of playing. Now I have it for more than 2 years and the tone is great. The only thing which could have been better is the pickup and built in tuner, but its ok accroding to the price and you can replace it for better one if you want.

Great value for money guitar

This is a very good guitar for the price. Ideal for a beginner or a guitarist just starting out gigging. Good acoustically and use through an amp. The build quality and features are only normally found on guitars £200+. Recommended.

Excellent Guitar fin same price

as per requirement can change the strings

This guitar is totally amazing, if you’re thinking about buying one, don’t hesitate!!

I’ve been playing for 60 years as a hobby, and after 60 years you should be good. I have around 30 guitars, from top of the range Taylor’s to Martins, I’ve also got 7 HB acoustics but as far as value for money, when plugged in, this is actually as good as them all. I feel the wide nut makes a massive difference for both strumming and picking, even though I don’t have big fingers. People talking about the tone of woods etc should actually get real, since when plugged in it all becomes irrelevant, I’ve got 3 of this model, one a B stock, the build quality is excellent, great neck, frets and tuners. All in all superb!

A VERY NICE GUITAR

As a new player learning in my late 60s I found fretting chords without damping open strings quite difficult. So I looked around for a guitar with a wider nut. My CLD 1048 helped a great deal with this problem, and I am now on my way to being a guitar player. Oh, by the way, it has a very nice sound.

Primo guitar

I’m 69 yrs old and have been playing guitar since 1964 when the Beatles hit the states.

I own 30 guitars and 8 amps.

Included with my collection is Martin, fender, les Paul and so on.

This guitar is excellent in build and tone. I have not found anything negative.

Awesome

My neck is straight but the truss is a little maxed out. But it's a great guitar. Wide fret board is awesome

Excellent Guitar! Nut width: 48.0 mm :-)

A beautifully constructed guitar! It also sounds beautiful, and easily competes with my Taylor 214e, which is about $1000! It's got 48mm nut width, which I really like

really hard to play, I must get a regulation I guess

Neck Bow

Initially rated this low because of setup issues. After setting up a couple of other instruments, I revisited this one. I was still unable to get the relief down to where I wanted, but after filing a couple of mm's off the saddle to get the action down on the last frets it's now satisfactory. I think the nut is a little tight on the strings, but may just need lubrication to help in tuning. It sounds good and is easier to play when adjusted properly.

Great full-bodied sound

A slight twaek to the action and I was good to go. Sound is full, tuners pretty good. Haven’t put it through an amp yet but look forward!

Quality control hit and miss

I have purchase two of these, first one b-stock and a week later another one for which I have paid a full price (new).

I was disappointed in both cases, which is a bummer since I really wanted to like these guitars. The sound is very good both acoustically and through an amp.

B-stock:

Came packed insufficiently - no foam wrapping, guitar in direct contact with cardboard and obvious finish wear on those exact contact points. Missing hardware (manual, spare tuner peg and allen wrench). Action too high (1mm higher as per attached QC specs).

All in all, the guitar still looked nice and I would use it, however, the neck had a worrying cracking sound at the neck/body joint when moved sideways (as if not glued on properly) and it affected the tuning stability - for this I will be returning it.

New:

Packed properly, all hardware included. The headstock had a very visible ding at the top, missing a piece of wood. The second crack was near the battery compartment (probably caused by a loose 9V battery in the box). What happened with the visual inspection??? The parcel that it came in was undamaged!

Otherwise, the guitar was set up correctly and sound was awesome.

I could not get past the QC issues though and have sold it to someone who does not care about this.

It is obvious that these two guitars were not checked properly before shipping which makes me sad as they are great instruments and very good looking otherwise.