Harley Benton Custom Line Nashville-Steel 4-stars Reviews

the guitar I play the most

2 people want it, sssooooo comfortable to play, acoustic piezo/lipstick blend and 3way equalizer

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Ever since I saw a Taylor t5z, I wanted one. Is this it? No, but for someone on my budget, it works really well.

Considering I am still very new to guitar, take my review with a grain of salt.

The unplugged sound is perfect for me. I live in an apartment with kids, upstairs neighbors, and side neighbors who just had a baby. It is just loud and acoustic enough for me, and I honestly love it.

Plugged in, the electric pick up alone lacks in volume compared to the piezo, but its manageable since you can blend them. I do get a bit of hum on the lipstick alone if I am too close to my amp, but again, manageable.

The piezo pick up is nice. It actually handle mild distortion well, is very clear on cleans, and just overall fits the sound of this guitar.

During my lessons, I have been working on blues types of riffs, scales, and songs like Layla and Cocaine. It works very well for this genre.

The neck fits me perfectly. I have sent so many guitars back to amazon, and spent hours trying out different guitars at guitar center. This neck was it. I am coming from starting on acoustic guitar. This neck is the perfect in between for me. It's not as chunky as my acoustic, but its got a little more meat to it than say a 9.5 squire.

Thats all I can really say, I don't have any qualms. It came in tune, the intonation was already set, and strings seemed to be new. I haven't had an issue with them.

Almost suoerb

Let’s get the bad out of the way first. The flame top is bad, really bad. It’s almost invisible unless in direct sunlight. I wish it was just a normal top. Next, the blend pot is backwards. When pointing at the neck pickup it voiced the piezo and vice versa. Finally, the “lipstick” pickup is clearly a Tele neck pickup in a tube.

The good is that it plays superbly, is well fitted and finished and sounds completely unique. It really is a voice not much else can offer. I like the mix about 70/30 in favour of the piezo through a Fender Twin model on a Helix with bit of reverb. Really lovely and addictive!

Great Jazz Box

This guitar is a very good, very warm, very articulate sounded electric guitar. As an acoustic guitar and it’s not ideal, but it sure sounds fine as long as you have the right type of strings. I put nicool pure nickel strings in it in order to get the best electric tone, while sacrificing some of the acoustic. I decide to do this because it’s mostly an electric design and more fitted for it that acoustic.

Awesome for going from acoustic to electric

Action was too high but easily fixed. this is a great little guitar for acoustic sounds and I use it a lot as a practice guitar when I am traveling.

Harley Benton Custom Line Nashville-Steel

This guitar looks and feels Great

Nice thin acoustic

Very nice guitar, the only complaint I would have is that the action is set very high and I'll have to pay to get it adjusted.

Nice, but could be better.

It's a nice looking guitar, and for the price it sounds ok. The pickups are good and the preamp offers quite a lot of options; piezo, magnetic, mix, phase reverse and some tone controls. It's possible to play it even with high gain/ distortion. Not the best option, it has some feedback, but it's on the manageable size.

Flame top looks very nice.

My main problem is with the bridge. The guitar body is arched, but the bridge is made for flat tops, leaving some areas where the bridge is not touching the guitar. Isn't that the point where string vibrations are transferred to the body?

There are also some minor quality flaws (glue spots under the lacquer, sharp frets), but from distance are not noticeable.