Harley Benton Fusion-T HH EB OCT Reviews

Very Impressed

Arrived in perfect condition, visually very nice, just needed slight setting up in regard to action etc, plays nice. Humbuckers not terribly high output, but do give a nice sound. Would recommend.

This guitar is loaded with high specs material

As mentioned, high quality materials, especially for the price. Definitely very good value. Good action. But the neck is not for me. My hands are small so I returned it.

Couldn't Be Happier

If you're considering this model... you certainly wont be disappointed!

Lovely guitar.

Bought but returned, nothing wrong with guitar, not for me personally however. Returned and bought a Harley Davidson SC and love it more. Spent £70 on a good set up to, makes all the difference. Shame every guitar isn't professionally set up before being sold or shipped. A big job but worthwhile.

My favorite guitar!

I have over 20 guitars and this is the one I reach for most often. It is very comfortable to play and has a beautiful finish. I can't believe a guitar this good is this affordable.

Best quality at lowest price

I ordered it and it arrived in 4 days I was surprised because it was too early

And I was even more surprised by the quality of the product, which exceeds the price.

Every guitarist should buy this.

worth double the price.

Great finish, very comfortable to play

Buena guitarra

Mantiene la afinación, es cómoda y no es tan pesada, el sonido puede mejorar pero por el precio ofrecen muchísimo

LP in telecaster body

I played guitar for almost 30 years now, and i had many cheap and expensive gear through that time. I am not guitar hero by any means but i manage. Always been a Les paul/humbucker fun, but ocassionally felt in love with telecasters.

Features

Great specs for guitar within this price range. Every part specified works very well, neck is little bigger in my hands than i expected, but feel very natural. Given the humbackers and tremolo this is tele only by design, but it feels like a tele under the hands. Split coil is great option but i am not fun of the pull pots, i ll rather have switch or push push knob.

Sound

This is not tipical sound for telecaster. It is solid humbucker tone, very dark, but in a good way. That tone will not be for everyone, because it sounds like yout tone pot is on a half way. I really like that tone, it is somewhat comparable with my 1990 Gibson LP studio. Clean sounds are good, especially on neck split coil position. Cleans very vell on the volume pot. With marshall/Tube screamer combination this guitar really shines, od/dist sounds are very good but dark, creamy sounding. This could be a potential problem in band situation, you might want to add additional treble freq with amp/pedals eq.

Split coils sound are lacking in volume, and only sounds good at neck position.

Quality

Last Hb guitar i have ordered, Lp Custom line, i returned because of quality issues. This one, which is actally cheaper, are really good instrument. I checked every detail, and found only one, barely noticable error in paint job. Paint, binding, hardware, neck joint, neck and body work are really good, especially for this price point. With tremolo use, it goes out of tune pretty quick, but with out of the box setup; professional setup, i assume, will solve that problem. Frets will need some minor polishing. Stock strings are actually pretty good.

Conclusion

This guitar is nothing like my expensive Gibsons / Schecters / Kramers in the terms of feel when playing. But it does sound very good (with that specific dark sound), and it is really quality bulit. I will have no problem going on stage with it (with eq in mind). I think this is the best relatively cheap guitar that i ever owned and its already earned its place at the wall with the others.

Glad I own it

I got the guitar and from the moment I looked it over , I knew it was gonna be hard to put down. Glad I pulled the trigger!

Awesome guitar

The guitar had a bad jack which I changed out (hence the 4 stars) but other than that this is an excellent guitar for what it costs. Been playing it from about a year now and would definitely buy another HB. BTW the pickups have great tone too and stays in tune well. Neck feels awesome.

Beautiful guitar with mediocre pickups

The guitar looks and plays very good. Only drawback are the pickups. Does not bother me much - I have switched them out for SD p-rails, and would give the guitar full 5 stars after the pickup-switch.

BUY THIS GUITAR BEFORE ITS GONE!!!!

after having the non tremolo version (in black),

i have decided to buy the tremolo verseion.

was waiting for it nearly 4 months for it to be in stock.

what a sweet moment was it when it got here few days now

out of the box, no Blemishes what so ever,

i was very happy to know that the HB people listens to peoples opinions and whilst last year the tremolo back plastic cover was not counter sunk, (nothing Major) the HB people took that under consideration and now it is countersunk. i wish BIG NAMES would listen to the people in the same way.....FENDER Slogan was " by the people, for the people"

ok, like most HB Guitars (weather changes???) the beautiful Ebony Fret board was very Dry,nothing that a good bath of Lemon oil could not sort out. truss rod was spot on.

i always have my action higher than normal (about2 MM in the 12th fret) so had to adjust the sadles just to find to my surprise that unlike Normal sadles they are double locked for extra security... now that is a beauty!!

so....

Ebony fret board

locking tuners,staggered

bespoke wheel truss rod adjustment at the bottom of the neck

stailess steel frets

split coil on the tone knob

a lockable tremolo arm

with these kind of specks, for 298 euros,, NO OTHER guitar(that iKnow wbout) maker HAVE those specs.

if it would have been an american Guitar it would have been between 2-·3000 euros to my humble estimat.

pluged in to my tube and non tube Amps and this is the best experience i had, so good that i dont want to leave it.....

i have a Gibson 335 but its a different thing all together, i have a fender Stratocaster , strat plus from 1991 with a Lace sensors pickups and it comes very close to this guitar but they are single pickups.

i believe that this guitar will become a modern classic(as quoted by a musician friend of mine) , it wont be long before this guitar will have an Endorsee......

my Advice- BUY IT...and BUY IT NOW.

5 stars

just one great guitar thanks trev

Bought on a whim

Added to an existing order after seeing some youtube reviews on this guitar. It's not my favorite- plays and feels great.

Wow!!!

This is an amazing guitar. My associates find the price unbelievable when I tell them.

I was not expecting it to be this good!

I was quite afraid to buy a guitar online from another country, without trying the actual product. The price and the specs were unbelievable so I thought that I should give it a try.

For this price, this guitar is amazing! I have a 1994 Japanese Jackson and a Korean Ibanez, which are more expensive guitars than this Harley Benton, yet this Harley Benton is going to be my main guitar for a while now!

The guitar came out of the box in tune! Intonation is amazing, the action is a bit high for me, yet it is pretty easy to fix. People complained about the Roswell humbuckers, yet they are pretty ok for me (they are not great but sound pretty decent). The neck is comfy, frets are really good. I am in love with the Wilkinson bride (after dealing with Floyd Rose for many years, this feels pretty good and easy to use!) And it looks amazing! The color and the tele shape is great!

This guitar is amazing for beginners and pros. I cannot wait to record some stuff with this instrument.

It's the Most Bang for the Buck!

I bought this as a Christmas present for myself, and have been loving it since. It built solidly and sounds so good! The pickups are responsive and the coil-split is an added bonus. This finish is lovely to see under a proper light!

In love with this guitar

So, I come from ten straight years of using a Mayones Setius sevenstring guitar, witch had premium features, to this HB. At first, the colour and features of this guitar played a huge factor in the decision to change my Mayo. It has all the thing I need, mainly the single coil split and most importantly the price.

The guitar is in no way perfect, i have an issue with the B and E strings losing some cents after the initial hit of the strings, but since I did a proper set up I managed to make the detuning effect less perceivable.

Finally, I am very happy with my guitar, I have a plan to swap the pickups since they seem to have a relatively low output, and call it a day.

Recommended for pros and beginners.

Fusion-T HH EB OCT

Really nice guitar! After seeing all the reviews i got exactly what i expected, Good delivery and packaging, also the factory set up was good (intonation , tremolo etc.).

Needed a string change obviously and i lowered the action but other than that it was working right out of the box!

The pickup output is a bit low but it depends what kind of music it is used for.

All in all a good all rounder guitar, WELL worth the money and not to mention the ocean turquoise finish looks AMAZING!