Harley Benton HB-35Plus Black Reviews

BB style Blues.

Wow! This has to be the best value guitar for the money I have ever player. The finish on the body and binding is spot on. The neck is quite fast but doesn’t get sticky. The tuners seem fine so far, bridge and saddles seem solid as well. The pickups are great, you can get the classic blues jazz tone, distorted classic rock and even single coil tones with the coil split.

I did have to give the frets a bit of a sanding and polish and the neck some lemon oil, but other than that, this guitar is super playable and well worth the money.

Audio jack is the only issue

Great guitar for the price it's very fun to play, sounds great. The only reason I give it less than 5 stars is the poor quality of the audio input jack, obviously not soldered/grounded well and the signal cuts out if the cable is moved in certain directions. Huge problem and easily avoided if Harley Benton would address it

Excellent guitar. I used to own a Gibson 335, this guitar is just as good, although neck is a bit thicker.

Solid, Great Value!

This guitar arrived in four days from Germany to USA!

Double boxed, secure, well protected.

Feels solid and hefty, no sharp edges, near perfect finish.

Pickups are on the bright side but not harsh (warmer than Firefly LP that has a 2k bump.)

After allowing the guitar to acclimatize some high frets settled down and only one required some filing. Set up nice and low, easy to play, nice feel, looks great. All pots and switch’s feel sure and tight.

A great player, great for beginners and experienced players as well. Very, very satisfied.

This is just stunning..

This is my second HB guitar having recently bought and *heavily* modified a little TE20 which I've had a great experience with to date. Owing to that previous experience I felt I had a pretty good idea of what I could expect from this guitar.

Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first: One of the tuners feels a bit wonky. The binding is a little messy in places, particularly around the "F" holes. The frets needed a bit of a polish. All of this was expected. That's it?

I'm just blown away by this guitar. I haven't even set it up or put a decent set of strings on it yet. I just took it out of the box, started playing and didn't really want to put it down.

I've owned in the region of 100 different guitars over the years including Fender and Gibson custom shop models, high end Ibanez, ESPs, a PRS and a bunch of Standard Gibson models. Focusing entirely on playability and tone, this honestly more than holds it's own with virtually any of them.

As a bit of a play test I got a nice clean tone with a little reverb and chorus (Boss CS-2, Boss CE-5, Walrus Audio Slo through the effects loop on an Orange Dark Terror) and decided to compare this playing the same piece against the three guitars that were closest to me at the time (Fender Custom Shop David Gilmour Stratocaster, Fender MIM Player Series Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul Studio): The verdict was unanimous in support of the HB-35Plus.

Alright, I did go for a tone that *suits* the HB35 more than the others, but it still had no business being the clear winner in my view.

I can't vouch for the other variants, but this guitar is just ridiculously, mind-blowingly good. It's just insane to me that it's available at this price point.

I've got a set of Grover "tulip" tuners which I'll be putting on it. I've also get a new Tusq nut and full set of electrics which I'd planned to upgrade it with, but honestly? I'm not going to bother.

If you can overlook the finishing issues (which are only really visible if you've got it in your hands and are actively looking at them) and are willing to stick on a nice set of tuners, you'll have an absolutely insane guitar for virtually no money.

Don't think, just buy it.

Best in price range!

Best overall. Nice sound. Beautiful look.

Fantastic !

Arived set up ready to play after tuning . Great looking instrument high quality finish ,sounds amazing lot's of options with coil splits .

Offers amazing value at just over £200 after tax Buy one you won't regret it .

Guitar is great, packaging not so much

First of all the guitar is great, the suprising part is the fact made it to me that way. My complaint is in the way it was packed for shipping. The outer shipping box had a very small amount of cushion allowing the inner box to move around freely. The guitar itself wasn't packed in its box much better, only a little bit of Styrofoam to stabilize the guitar. In fact the 3 way switch had busted through the box, luckily it wasn't damaged. With that I would be hesitant to order another guitar.