Harley Benton Fusion-T HH HT EB OCT 4-stars Reviews

Almost GOAT

First impression: wow! It's a gorgeous guitar. Very beautiful from each point of view. It stays in tune always, no matter what you do with it. You can practice Hotel California solo for hours and even 3rd string would stay in tune. Thanks to the locking tuners and TUSQ nut. Frets are awesome, too - they are high and smooth, it's a pleasure to play bends and vibrato on it. And as far as it is stainless steel you can be sure they would last. Sound is decent. It's not perfect - maybe pickups should be replaced with some fancy DiMarzio, or maybe I am just not very good at sound engineering with my gear. Minor issue, I reckon it is solveable by just adding a little bit of gain. What I did not like is when humidity went down in late autumn the frets started to point out from sides of the neck, so I had to sand them flat. The rest was perfect - it's comfortable, plays like a dream, sounds fine and not so expensive. The next time I would consider buying roasted neck option

Great Value

It works great as a second guitar. I bought it to upgrade from my first guitar, a really cheap strat, and this has been a great improvement. I enjoy having the two humbuckers but the option of coil splitting is a welcome addition. The grooves cut into the body make for very comfortable playing with a highlight for me being the slight angle to the area where the neck joins the body which allows for easier access to the upper frets. Some very minor defects in construction are to be expected but I personally haven't encountered anything more than a slight bit of dried glue near the top of the neck.

Hey thanks for the gorgeous guitar??!

Came in great shape only had to do minor set up beautiful guitar beautiful looking sounding and playing thank you guys for all you do!!!

Great quality for a great price!

I wanted a tele style guitar, so I found that Harley Benton was doing several afordable models, but the price always made me kinda sceptic about the actual value of these instruments, but after acquiring this one, I can say that I don't understand how they do it, at least on this specific one: locking tunners, stainless steel medium jumbo frets, hardtail Hipshot bridge, amazingly comfortable unfinished neck, and this beautiful ocean turquoise colored top. I preferred the fixed bridge version, because I rarely use a trem bar when playing, and I like the simplicity.

When it arrived, it needed some intonation, especially after downtuning half a step, like I normally play, but was very easy and straightforward to setup, with the Included truss rod adjusting bar (to use next to the neck pickup), and alan key for the bridge saddles.

The guitar is very comfortable and easy to play, feels good and looks good. There are very minor finishing issues on the neck that don't bother me at all, but might bother some one else, like the fretboard not being perfectly parallel with the body top on the neck joint, and a very small chip imperfection on one side of the fretboard, which is not noticeable on the touch, but these don't ultimately weigh on the overal experience you get with this instrument, the fret edges are very smooth and well finished, and there are no aparent finishing problems on the body itself.

If there's really anything that is a lesser part which lowers a star on my overall rating, it's the pickups. They're not bad, but they're not great either, at least comparing with Seymour Duncans on another guitar I have (JB on the bridge, Jazz on the neck), but I guess that's a taste thing, I'm very much a SD guy, so in comparison these seem less capable, but some might like it depending on the usage. They have the split coil functionality, which adds a great layer of versatility, but they don't "open" as much as some SDs on higher strings, and don't have the same clarity and have weaker output. Ultimately, I'll upgrade the pickups, and expect to make of it a great instrument to gig with.

HOW MUCH....????

Ive contemplated over this guitar for many months ,id bought the TE-90 QM and was impressed (tho the neck could do with a shave off the bulk.

Recieved last week and luckily my band managed to host our jam nite again (strict lockdown rules of course) and plugged into my Blackstar HT-60 and bang what a sound ,not over fizzy pick ups ,the neck is prob a little fatter than my retired RGs but once you play off the brilliantly finished stainless steel frets it plays a dream.

Only thing i had to do was tune and a quick set up ..lots of lemon oil and Dr Duck to polish up neck & fingerboard .......So looking forward to this sunday jam ..unless our fumbling British government think up some more ridiculous rules for the weekend

Keep Rocking ..!!!