Harley Benton GS-Travel Mahogany Reviews

Amazing for the price

it's my second guitar and I totally fell in love with it. It's really portable and sounds great in my opinion. Would totally buy again ;D

Great seller

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I am a disabled person in a wheelchair from Croatia, Zagreb - I am very satisfied with your service, I even got a discount once.

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My favourite guitar

I own a sigma electro acoustic guitar and a wanted a smaller travel guitar...

Needless to say this is the only guitar I play now, I kind of feel bad for the sigma but the Harley Benton is so easy to play it's ridiculous and the sound is really deep for such a small guitar. I can not recommend this guitar enough.

Perfect travel guitar

Got this guitar a year ago, Boy oh boy, it's worth every cent

- It is small, but as loud as my big jumbo acoustic. It does not sound as a "travel guitar"

- Warm mahogany sound, love it with phosphor bronze strings

- It has strange V-shaped neck, kinda weird when you pick it up for a first time, but you'll get used to it after 5 mins of playing

- Nice matte finish, does not collect scratches, fingerprints or dust

- Furniture is cheap, but does its job great. Tuners are smooth and have no backlash at all, hold tuning pretty stable

- Out of a box frets and fret ends are nice, after a year being in a very harsh climate fret ends kinda have sharpened a bit, but 5 minutes of filing solves it all

- It's small and very lightweight, perfect for bringing it everywhere you go. Also, very nice gigbag comes with the guitar, cool

- Do I need to say this - have you seen its price, have you seen it?

Jokes aside, it is small, light, good-looking and very great sounding guitar. You could bring it everywhere you go, its cheap, it sounds amazing - that's all I need in a perfect travel guitar

Loud thing

I don't know how, but this travel guitar is louder than the most famous Yamaha F-310 dreadnought!

I'm playing on GS-Travel Mahogany not for a long time, so far I can say that this guitar is definitely comfortable. Very quickly you get used to the small size and the dreadnought seems bulky after that. Mahogany still makes itself felt, the guitar is not ringing, but soft. The shape of the neck is unusual, but to be honest, you don't feel much difference when playing, everything is convenient.

If you have been playing for a long time, then I do not think that this guitar can be a replacement for a truly ringing, overtone "full-size" guitar, but it is definitely a pleasant, high-quality and at the same time inexpensive understudy.

Small but very impressive

Bought this for my daughter as she wanted a small parlour type guitar. She loves it and has got her back into singing. Well set up straight out of the box and looks stunning in the mahogany finish. With the included (good quality) gig bag this really is value for money. Everyone who's tried this has been amazed at the sound it produces. Had to order another one now for her sister :)

Value For Money

I'm a professional musician about 15 years. I bought the guitar just for fun. But finally I will use GS for Recordings and stage performaces. Great value for money!

Here is my test of the guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgvvrABNPRk

Unbelievable quality and sound for that price!

I bought this guitar for my niece. The guitar sounds soo great especially for that incredible price and I was really inpressed and surprized when I try it for the first time. The frets, neck and other critical aspects are totally fine. The neck is V shape and it is ok. I recomend to remove the thin piece of plastic under the saddle.

After couple of mounth I'm still very impressed of sound and quality of this guitar (I've also have Taylor 714ce and other guitars from PRS, Suhr and Gibson so quality means a lot for me)

Very good travel/small guitar for the price.

Just received my GS travel mahagony to replace an Epiphone AJ220 which was too bulky for travel and camping. I also did not like the sound and feel of that guitar.

The GS travel generally looks nice, but closer inspection showed

- finish around the saddle a tiny bit different (effect of saddle glue?)

- some imperfections in the wood at the back (a small discoloration under the finish)

- poorly drilled holes for the bridge pins (looks like the drill wasn't very sharp).

- frets were allright, a bit sharp at the edge of the fretboard, and they could be smoother. Easily remedied. They look to be on the soft side, time will tell.

- some machine heads (tuners) were very poorly seated, with some nuts not tightened down at all. They feel serviceable, no more no less.

- the finishing inside is a bit rough here and there (bracing, neck joint block, ...)

Sound is loud and not bad at all for the size. This was even better for me after I put a medium-light strings on. Nothing fancy though, it's still a small laminate guitar ...

The action of the strings was 3 mm at the low E 12th fret, which is a bit on the high side. The neck bow was also more pronounced than I am used to. Adjusting the truss rod feels a bit weird, not smooth. Still, the neck straightened a bit after 1/4 turn, resulting in a more acceptable bow (0.2 mm on the 6the fret when fretting 1st and 14th fret). The resulting action was now 2.7 mm. No buzzing, even when digging in.

Intonation, while not perfect is certainely ok.

All in all nothing unexpected at this price point, except maybe for the loose tuners which should have been noticed by whatever simple QC is in place.

All in all, this guitar plays and sound like a guitar that costs much more (and I own several). It satisfies my requirements of a cheap small travel guitar that sounds decently perfectly. As an all laminate construction it should be quite robust, I hope it survives many a trip ...

Great job, great value for money!

the nice guitar has all that I need

A really fun instrument

Just got it in the delivery and played it for 2 straight hours. I've previously owned a range of acoustics, from Taylor 614ce to a number of Takamine, vintage Yamahas & old Yairi guitars.

PROS:

FUN. It just works. It looks nice, has a decent tone. There are lots of disappointing acoustics in the 200~400 range and I'd say this one is probably a wiser purchase than many of those. It's obviously reminiscent of the GS Mini it is modelled after but somehow I feel like this has a more open tone, albeit also a lighter tone with less defined midrange. Very fun to play on. Good setup. The bag that comes with it seems worth 20 euros already.

CONS:

1 VERY dry fretboard. You'll need lemon oil.

2 It's more of an upgrade suggestion, but getting a good saddle + pins feels like it would really make this guitar shine - I'm planning on trying this out.

So much value in this guitar (although if I had known about it earlier, I would've gone for the -e version with the pickup - even more value!)

An absolutely lovely guitar to play.

Astonishing instrument

I've bought this guitar for my daughter, she was looking for a decent cheap instrument easy to be transported to/from school.

I play and buy guitars since more than 30 years, I've had guitars from several top brands over the years (Gibson, Fender, Blade, Parker, Maton, Seagull, Ovation, Yamaha...), I have to say this little piece of wood is really astonishing in terms of build quality, sound, finishings and playability. A really nice surprise. The tonal warmth of a full-mahogany construction effectively compensates the small dimensions and short scale, resulting in a balanced, full and smooth tone you would expect from a larger and higher-class instrument. I replaced very soon the strings with an Elixir set, that's a default on all my acoustic guitars, and it earned even more tonal pleasantness.

I did some trial studio recordings, just to test what is possible to get out from this "cheap" guitar, and the result was absolutely 1st class.

Finally, it comes with a decent soft case, and that's not foregone for the price.

I recommended this guitar to a couple of friends, for the same purpose, and they were fully satisfied too.

Considering the price, I see no cons at all.

If you still have doubts, just buy it and play it!

Beautiful Instrument!

I bought this for my son, thinking it would be a nice little starter guitar.

But, I find myself constantly picking it up and playing it.

It really is a lovely guitar to play and sounds great.

Pleasantly surprised

Wanted an inexpensive small guitar I could lug around to the beach or on camping trips.

Wasn't expecting much in terms of build and sound quality however I was quite pleasantly surprised when this came in. I find myself playing this more than I would admit.

Sometimes also makes it into my recordings. :)

Astoundingly good value.

This is a great travel guitar. The tone is quite good, especially for the price. The finish on mine was excellent, not like a Taylor, but let's be reasonable.

Value!

Incredible good little guitar for the price

What even is this guitar?

Honestly I don't even know what to say about this product. I read couple of reviews which stated that the frets might be a little sharp or even very sharp and that action is relatively high.

My order came in and the guitar is literally PERFECT. Frets aren't sharp, action is perfect. My previous guitar was a Taylor 114CE and honestly I way prefer the sound of this little GS-Travel.

Honestly, I don't know how they do it for this price. I recommend it to anyone as long as it maintains the same quality as the one I received.

Great sounding small guitar

Love the guitar. Small and compact, but has great action and surprisingly full sound. It is now my go to acoustic.

Cheap But very good!

For this price extreem good!

GS-Traveler

Big price bump but I'm still thinking about sending on to my grandson, I had to finish the body really rough and the frets were sharp but once you clean it up and then play it it will be worth it. pro's it was cheaper con's now you'll have to pay more.