Harley Benton DC-Junior Faded Cherry 4-stars Reviews

I bought this mostly to get the pickguard template. I make Pickguards for a living. With that in mind I still will be keeping this guitar. I'm not super into the pickup but that's not too crazy for an entry level guitar. The wood, finish and Playability are pretty great. I installed new pickup and it came alive. It's a great guitar for the price. Hell, its a great guitar at double or triple the price. The only complaint is the nut and a few finish issues. Both are completely acceptable at this price. I am happy to get a single ply tort on it.

Excellent at this price but . . .

Always liked the DC Junior type guitar. Simple no nonsense .

So decided to get this HB "clone" as I've got a couple of other HBs that , for the price , I've been impressed by the quality.

I realised a long time ago that, especially with guitars, you more or less get what you pay for. This is true up to a point, but with HB you get, in my opinion more bang for buck. Quality of build is good on this guitar and the finish is unblemished. Good Wilkinson tuners, an ADJUSTABLE, wrap around bridge which seems fine and full size tone and volume potentiometers. Not familiar with Roswell pickups but this P90 sounds on point.. Medium weight .

Now the "but" : . . . . Expect to have to adjust truss rod, action and intonation to achieve the best playability of this instrument. One thing that was lucky was that when I was adjusting the action (string height) screwing the bridge down I reached my required action when the bridge was screwed virtually all the way down. If you want ridiculously low action then you may struggle. The truss rod reacted well to adjustments. The nut was obviously hastily cut and at some point I'll replace it with a black one. It is these "lack of set up" out of the box, so so nut , that keeps the price point at very affordable. If I didn't have to do that I would have given 5 stars for quality and overall, but with features, hey, it's a single pickup simple guitar, so difficult to give five stars !

Bottom line I really like this guitar. Properly set up it's a keeper, with upgraded nut and possibly P90 it would be a no brainer.