Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kit JA 4-stars Reviews

great kit

fun to build and fun to play.

Nice complect

Sadly cant put a photos, but only issue i’ve got that pickguard holes wasn’t drilled in right place

Good introduction to building your own guitar

Bought as a birthday present for my son who works in a music shop and is in to guitars. Quality for the most part very good for the price. A couple of tweaks with a little help from friends needed in order to complete the build as he wanted. He initially put the guitar together while we were on holiday. A successful present.

Very Nice and fun kit

I should start this review saying that this was my first pre-assembled guitar, and the first time I use P90s. Overall, I had lots of fun building it, the neck is nice, and the setup was easy.

After few days I had a nice sounding guitar - of a decent quality! and I learnt a lot. The P90 sound is warm and very nice when clean. Can be also punchy when distorted.

I am having a little issue with grounding noise, but I suppose that is due to my building skills. I will soon unbuild the bridge to fix that.

I found the instruction manual very vague and pretty useless. Would be very useful to have a proper manual.

I replaced the plastic nut with a bone nut, and finished with mahogany stain and danish oil! the color is super cool :) ! Suggested to whom wants an entry level guitar and have fun learning how to setup and how the components work. The price is very accessible and is worth every penny for whoever loves guitars as objects beyond playing them.

Manual error

In the manual they forgot to mention how to connect the pickups to the switch. It's easy, but if you don't connect tham you will have no sound! :)

Super tof om te bouwen

Kwalitatief natuurlijk geen "echte" maar wel super leuk om zelf je eigen gitaar te bouwen.

Jaguar guitar kit

It came very fast and the quality is very good for the price. It makes noise when I plug it.

Jaguar-kit wrong pore-filler

Kit is okee exept the pore-filler they have used , it reacts whit the paints , and that’s not the way it has to function , even after sanding it still reacts , acryl-lakker and nitro-lakker whit both it reacts in bubble-like reaction , it’s not really that nice , I had to do the lakker several times , and many clear coats after the color lakker , the rest is nice , I’m building it to a twelvestring

Great kit

Really good quality guitar kit. Lots of fun to build, easy instructions.

The body comes sealed and ready for paint, so if you want to do an oil or stain finish, you have to sand it back first.

The only thing I didn't like was the solderless pickup connectors. Felt like they might come apart under the pickguard, so cut and soldered them in myself.

Great kit for anyone wanting to get into guitar building.

Great kit

First of all this is a great kit.

Pros: freaking cheap, complete freedom of modding. Lightweight - it is the most lightweight guitar I have. Pickups are OK (ceramic magnet). Great pickguard (much better than one at the picture)

Cons: body cavities seems to be cut with bad route bit. Wood not cut clearly. Not a big problem thiugh.

Fingerboard has 3mm long deep saw chip - can be filled with epoxy or superglue. Tuners are very poor, I'd recommend to replace them just from the beginning with any HB's or anything.

I finished my kit with surf green color, defretted the neck (yes, it is fretless now!), cut headstock like on other HB's, replaced tuners, made pickups series/parallel/phase switchable.

It is a great guitar now! Worth every penny!

I would recommend,Great, but you will probably need to learn some things. Not one for a parent and kid to make unless parent kno

So....we got two of these. it is a lot of guitar for the price.

The cons: no hole drilled for earthing the metalware, needed a fret levelling with several high frets. Pickups had varying output. The pots are not right for p90s and the input is flimsy. So...Replaced them.

The middle ground: Machine heads were better than I expected. Wiring is not great and there is a lot of excess wire.

Pros: neck was straight as an arrow, the switch was fine all the holes lined up. It can be made very good and it is excellent value. Mine is but took a lot of learning. You will need a fret rocker, some 800 or 1000 grit paper and an abrasive straight edge. Get this of you want a project. If you just want a cheap, playable guitar, get the HB the 70 or the HB jazzmaster.

Very interesting project.

This was my first project guitar build . Although the holes and pick guard were not aligned properly I did get all the screws in. The rubber inserts were missing in my kit . The whole thing took me 2 hrs to complete . I stained the body with wax polish . It looks very nice . I have not had p90s in a guitar before . Not as big sounding as my harley Benton black tele with humbuckers They are ok . The guitar itself feels good to play . I would not hesitate to recommend this kit . I do like the push fit electrics . I may upgrade the pickups or at least the bridge . It was fairly easy to set up.

A nice kit

i ordered this, to experiment working on a guitar. It is easy to assembly and most of the parts fitted nicely (minus some pickguard holes). The sound is ok, the body ok (thinner than a normal ja guitar), the neck is very good, bridge and tuners ok. The manual in the box was an older version, and that was a bit confusing, as for example the foam inserts were described in it, but are currently not included in the package. Anyways, a fun project, i have dismantled it again and i'm working to refine the neck and body and probably and probably swap the electronics

Great for the price

My second kit I did the SG kit already. The kit is easy to do I painted mine peach and it looks good with the pickguard color. It took maybe an hour and a half to assemble. I put on good strings and tossed the ones that come with it. I did a basic setup and tuning and it sounds great. I am very pleased with the purchase.

Looks good and plays well after a bit of hard work.

The neck wouldn’t sit in the body right. There was a gap between the end of the fretboard and the body. It took a bit of careful chiselling and some work with a dremmell to get it to fit with no gap. I could have easily messed that up if I was not concentrating. Once that was sorted the rest went ok with the easy to follow instructions. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the pickups. The guitar sounds very nice. The body took the paint well and gave a nice smooth finish. Looks good and plays well. Can’t ask for more than that.