Harley Benton DC-Junior Faded Cherry

Classic, vintage looks and modern feel

An extremely comfortable guitar that's weighted well and easy to play. The satin finish is flawless, the wrap-over bridge is not sharp as some purchasers have experienced and the guitar arrived with low action and almost perfect intonation. The hardware is excellent quality and the vintage tuners do their job well, keeping the guitar in tune. I have a diverse range of HB's and this is up there with the best of them...great value, playability, looks and weight...plus it's a tenth of the price of an American equivalent that can't possibly achieve being anywhere near 10 times as good!.

Don't need no Gibson No Mo'

Added Duncan P-99's s in the NECK position as well as the bridge. Added Schallers and had it Plekk'd. Don't need Gibson no mo'.

Simply great

I'd wanted a Junior style for so long, but never saw myself much as a single P90 kind of player. This arrived, I did some preliminary setup and put on a set of 11-56s, plugged it in and it just screams. What a guitar for the money! The fit & finish was top notch, I couldn't find a single blemish on mine. The fretwork, perfect, no buzzing and they weren't even scratchy out of the box. Perfectly intonated and the tuners aren't half bad either, no tight spots or skipping, if not my personal style - I'd have loved a model with larger deluxe style tuners or maybe Grover style tuners even more! For the 170 it cost, I couldn't be any happier though. It's a simple workhorse of a guitar, that plays great, sounds excellent, and doesn't cost so much that I'd be worried about it picking up some battlescars in its life.

Rock

Changed pick up and it rips

Classic looks with a smooth satin feel

I was expecting this guitar to have a clear poly coat over the paint, and it did not! This guitar looks and feels like a much more expensive instrument. I highly recommend picking one of these up if you’re looking for a single pickup guitar

Meh

Bought this because I wanted a p90 guitar and didn’t have one.

Playability and sound-wise it’s more or less on par with a squire product (caution that pickup is quite noisy however). Quality wise… this was not well made.

It seems as though the fretboard is darkened with the use of a dye? They forgot to dye the bottom end of my fretboard and it looks comical. Doesn’t effect playability, but it does bother me. Intonation is sharp by about 5-7 cents on 12th fret even with saddles all the way back on E and G strings. Without the use of a tuner I don’t know that I could hear that? But again it bothers me.

This is my second Harley Benton product, the other was much better.

Sound wise it sounds just like a p90 should but there must be zero shielding because it’s very noisy.

Not upset enough to return, but wouldn’t buy again.

Great guitar punches well above its price point

Arrived safely, no damaged. Fantastic sound. Once setup to my preference it was a joy to play. I tend to find you need to spend a good few hours playing a new guitar, get familiar with it. I made some adjustments to the pickup height and the poles,.I prefer to try get the most out of the stock hardware if possible and rarely see the need to change.

Good 🎸

excellent customer service

Feels very nice in hand

Good weight

Comfortable

Unfortunately saddles sharp and breaking strings.

A Rock Machine!!

This is my first Harley Benton guitar. The Harley Benton DC-Junior in faded cherry. I feel certain the intonation was set perfectly when it was shipped and after travel was the slightest bit off. Corrected that and swapped out for my usual brand of strings and this is ROCK MONSTER!! The P90 single coil (highly underrated, in my opinion) is great. I'd never heard of Roswell before, but this is a great pickup. Love the vintage rock sounds I get out of this guitar. I will be buying this same guitar in the FAT version (I love the '59 style LP DC with the bigger neck) and will highly recommend Harley Benton to my friends. I had never heard of this brand before, but if your other products are on par with THIS guitar, I am one sold, loyal customer. Thanks.

Simple, My best feeling guitar!

This guitar is everything that I could've asked for and more from a jr. style guitar. It played amazing coming right out of the box! The setup was good, and it was perfectly intonated right out of the box. My only thing with this is that the pickup in this guitar sits so far from the strings that the output level is much lower than I would like.