Harley Benton EX-84 Modern EMG BK 4-stars Reviews

Metallica on a budget

The guitar looks and sounds great. Tone knob arrived loose. Tuners are rough and the neck is THICC. Great for riffing on the lower frets but going up to the higher frets is hard because it's THICC. But it's an explorer style guitar with EMGs so.

Great Explorer for good money

Fantastic guitar that looks heavy, sounds heavy (it has 2 great pickups). I didn't change anything, just out of the box and it sounds good. I have it tuned to D-standard and might adjust the action as the strings buzz , but I can't hear anything from the amp.

The only issues I found are:

1. Neck dive. A bit annoying, but I replaced the nylon strap with a leather one. Improved, but not fixed.

2. Toggle switch - it works like is going to fall apart, seems to be not too solid. Toggles pickups all right, however it could be a better quality switch.

Anyway, I would recommend this HB guitar no problem (a second HB in my collection).

Poor quality

Fret 18 has scratches.

9v battery was discharged, 3.5 volts.

Fretbord is damaged on the left between frets 13-14, 15-16 and 16-17.

Also small damage on the right side of fretboard between frets 15-22.

The action was high enough to put my pinkie between the strings and 22th fret.

The guitar came with a booklet telling me about high quality control.

If this is high control, I wonder what low quality control is...

Besides that jumbo frets are amasing, paint job and varnish coating are flawless.