Harley Benton Fusion-III HSS Roasted DB

Right after receiving this guitar I was disappointed with how it was set up. Very inaccurate. So I disassembled the guitar and made a proper setup myself.

What I've found not so good:

When I unscrewed back plates covering treomo springs and electronics, they weve stuck too tight, and came out with a piece of wood. Glued it back, and sanded plates to a proper size.

Humbucker attached to the body without springs. Rattling on the screws. Fixed.

Tremolo was set up by somebody who barely knows hot it supposed to work, I guess. Fixed.

Inaccurately made neck pocket.

I guess all of the above puts up a question about quality control on the factory: are you there?)

Pros:

The neck is just amazing. Really.

Pickups are great.

Body shape is very comfortable.

Locking tuners seem to be pretty good.

Pots are smooth, push-pull coil split is l surprisingly useful for a bridge humbucker.

After getting proper set up, the guitar resonates very well, plays smoothly, stays in tune. I like it. But few more purchases like this, and I'll become a luthier :)

It's a great guitar

Bought it almost a year ago. It feels and sounds great. I own a few $1000 guitars and when I pick this one up I truly don't feel a difference. I actually like the pickups a lot and the tone they produce. The fretboard is comfortable, frets nicely polished, stays in tune well.

I dinged it 1 star because of the cosmetic issue I noticed after a few months. The blue was much more intense at first (more than the pictures even) and I really liked it that way. It has faded a lot over the first 6-8 months.

not bad at all

needed a good setup when it got here but overall not too bad for the money the pickups might be the only week point!

Excellent guitar

Straight out of the box it is great. The finish is very cool and the sound and expression is awesome.

Blown Away

Superb once again . Great playing lots of sounds . Comfortable neck . Keen price .

Amazing guitar

There was a tiny issue with the paint, possibly due the shipping, but overall this is an amazing guitar and I'm so inspired to play and compose music with it!

Excellent Guitar

I got my fusion III relatively quickly for it being an overseas purchase. When it arrived the package had signs of damage which is more than likely the couriers fault but I made the mistake of getting rid of boxes too early as later I found some pretty bad cracks in the guitar and it needed to be returned but without the proper label I couldn't file for an insurance claim against courier but there's definitely some quality issues with these guitars in particular but for the price you can't beat it.. just make sure to photograph and keep an account of everything as you may not notice damage right away. However HB has atleast credited me a partial refund and were willing to take the full return but under specific circumstances all which could have been avoided if I'd taken a photo of shipping label and kept boxes. I did photograph quite a bit but managed to not include label which is a really stupid mistake on my part. Anyways the materials that these guitars are made with are top notch for the price ratio.

Expect to put work into it. I've just spent a ridiculous amount of time actually setting it up and I'm considering purchasing a blank body so I can route the cavities out myself. The fusion I have has been poorly constructed in that sense and is a headache.

Stunning looks, good sound!

Have never tried Harley Benton guitars before, I heard that they were amazing guitars for the price, so I got one.

Plays super good, even though it needed a little fret polish, sounded good too. I swapped the humbucker, but the single coils sound amazing!

I'm never gonna sell this one!

Excellent

Excellent quality, looks much better in real life than pictures. The roasted neck looks and feels fantastic.

Pickup alignment with strings can be better. Minor issues are tiny paint chip at the back, tiny scratch on the neck.

beautifully crafted guitar for a great price

Really love this guitar, stainless steel frets are so smooth the fretboard is maple so there is no need to oil it every 6 months. The syrup was very good I just had to adjust the neck slightly, I’ve never Used a Wilkinson trem before very impressed can’t do dive bombs but it’s similair to a strat trem except you tighten the hammer bar with an Allen key. The pickups are roswell good sound, and you can split the pickups which is great, will switch the roswell to Seymour Duncan in the future this guitar is worth double the price so it’s no big deal doing mods like changing pickups great playability too.