Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kit ST-Style 5-stars Reviews

Outstanding for the price

spend a whole afternoon to get the guitar assembled. learned to appreciate the craftsmanship, guitar building is really delicate. the guitar built-up is absolutely playable, much better than I expected. only some minor issues, nut buzzing on high e string, but is easily fixed by tapping the nut. the guitar looks nicer than the pictures. I like the bare wood look. the wood is polished. it's unreal to got a playable guitar under 100, all the hardwares...

Superb Strat

I’ve just finished building this one as a present for a very dear friend. The quality is absolutely amazing, the build was easy and the tone is excellent. I can highly recommend this kit.

Fantastic value for a quality product

It was fun putting it together and no difficulties - the hardest part was getting the wiring to squeeze in under the pickups. It plays brilliantly well and pretty much just as good as my Fender Strat! Would be very happy to use it for gigs.

nice kit

Body is 2 pieces (which is good), different texture. Very smooth on the surface but shows tools marks on all the curves. Very nice smooth neck, covered by matte lacquer (which is a problem as you need to cut the head). Electronics is average, swapped the pickups. Overall very good for the price

Goood

Best kit ive ever done

Best for the price

It is an opportunity to customize world’s most popular guitar for a very low price!

My son loved building this. Excellent quality

Amazing for the money

I got this kit as a project guitar and I have to say I had low expectations. That is until it arrived and i assembled it to hear how it sounds. Unbelievable I couldnt believe that was a 90 euro instrument. The neck is smooth but just a tad dry (lemon oil fixed this issue) and the hardware is what you could expect (thin tremolo block, mediocre tuners ect).

All around great purchase

Cheers Harley Benton!

Exceeded Expectations!

Couldn't be happier with this guitar!

Really good quality for the money and a fun project

Great Quality Kit!

great price, great craftsmanship. I'm using this kit to make my own custom frankenstrat style guitar. Couldn't be happier

It’s pretty good

I’m not an experienced guitarist, but someone told me early on to look for sustained tone. This has that. The fit between neck and body is tight. Maybe a bit too much so. The tuning machines are kinda crap.. not terrible and they hold tune decently. I replaced them with some AliExpress locking tuners.

Brilliant

Great, just great. The quality of the body is second to none and the overall kit is great

Wonderful

This is a wonderful product. My younger brother really enjoyed customizing it.

The only issues which could be improved were (1.) the instructions were unclear which screws to use at each stage (2.) the screws behind the pickups were too long causing the pickguard to buckle, and this was already assembled in the factory (3.) The grounding wire should include a clip to connect without the need for solder, (4.) the screw sizes were not described.

Overall it's a great product. I would highly recommend. The sound is great, the wood is decent quality. The delivery was quick.

Best money ever spent

Sheesh, this was a blast to build, such a fun kit, took less than an hour and it turned out GREAT. Got excellent action and intonation and, although the strings which come with the guitar are....awful, the wood is great and it's SO FUN to build. Sounds GREAT too. 10/10

I'm a 74 year old and have just bought this guitar kit for one of my grandson's, i have put it all together was brilliant I enjoyed building it, the only thing I found was the string broke as I trying to tune it in, but apart from that would recommend it to anyone.

I made this as part of the 2022 DIY Kit Challenge. For a long time I've wanted a vibrant pink guitar, but those are hard to find at any budget so I used this to make my own. Overall, the quality of the parts in my kit were excellent. After finishing the kit and doing a setup, I'm really impressed with the sound. The neck in particular was excellent. The headstock is very difficult to cut if you don't have a proper woodworking setup, but I do really appreciate being able to customise it to my own tastes. The instruction manual isn't great, but there are a lot of excellent online tutorials that you can follow.

Changes that I had to make:

* I had to realign some of the pick guard pilot holes.

* Cleaned up some oxidisation on the frets and polished them up.

* The fretboard was pretty dry, so I cleaned and oiled it with fretboard conditioner.

Changes that I plan to make in the near future:

The tuners are very basic, and I plan to upgrade them to vintage style ones soon.

TOP top TOP

really it is the best ST style kit every and it sounds awesome!

UPDATE!!! Still a fucking amazing guitar.

Fantastic Strat if you put in the effort and have the knowledge

I'll start with saying that I originally gave this 1 star and was very disappointed in the kit due to a few issues I had such as the tuners screw breaking off in the headstock or the springs claw bending to the springs pressure or the holes for the bridges screws being asymmetrical.

The thing is that you're buying an extremely cheap kit that has DIY in the title and due to it being a strat which is an extremely customizable guitar you can fix basically anything with enough time, effort, and most importantly knowledge.

I had a ton of issues and had no prior experience with any of this and barely knew how to even setup my own guitar but I used the help of people online in woodworking communities and guitar communities and personal friends and managed to overcome all the obstacles and the result is honestly pretty amazing! A nearly fully functional stratocaster that rivals and even beats the ones that are 100-150$, especially if you hit it with a few small upgrades like locking tuners, and a proper setup and fret levelling (though I didn't really have any major issues with the frets other than the 17th and 19th). Be prepared to put in time and effort but also be prepared for a fantastic fun and usable guitar that I personally will be using often and am proud to look at.

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If being honest I'm not sure this guitar deserves a 5 star rating simply due to the mess I had to deal with (things that should be prevented in QC). The thing is that the more I play on this the more I enjoy it, It sounds surprisingly excellent and I managed to set it up with pretty low action with only some issues that still render it playable to a certain degree. The rating may not be accurate to the quality of the parts but the resulting guitar with all the work put in is definitely worth 5 stars. A custom strat thats fit for you perfectly and that you design yourself, absolutely amazing for the price!

A fun that you wish to have everyday

Not just playing, but building up this guitar its a very great and relaxing experience that you are going to love it and do it again.. and again ... and then you are going to wish all the DIY kits that they have. And talking about the quality of the guitar, I am sure that you are not going to buy better guitar for this price and have fun as you would have with this one.. no matter is it a t-style or st-style or whatever else, they are all very good and everyone have its originality. So try it, make your ideas and dreams true or have a nice time building it with your friends...... btw every part on this guitar its from excellent quality (pot's, magnets, frets, wood, etc etc ....You have to try it :)