Harley Benton Custom Line King-CE NT Reviews

what a great deal......!!

reveived the quitar after 10 days.....in an exccelent and secure packaging.......first impression was ..."WOW"...i must say that i expected some fails but surpiselly the quitar was as perfect as a much expencive one, with nice grover tuners, exccelent clear coat and came in tune out of the box..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......the sound......oh, the sound.....made out of maple sounds so warm, as i like playing the blues....neck was perfectly ajusted and action was really what i wanted for my taste of playing......Fishman preamp is not a blow, but it is an honest one with a built in tuner.....no middle knob though....

this was my first order from Tom (as we use to say in Greece) and i am so happy with this instrument......a low buddget quitar , with a quality and sound of a midle buddget one......i am so happy.....

if you plan to buy an electroacoustic and you dont want to spend much, this is your No 1 choice....

HHarley Benton HB Custom Line King-CE NT

having purchased yet another guitar. I'm very pleased with it the detail is fantastic again .and certainly looks the part.as replica gibson 2000e ). the sound is grt . for the price you certainly cant go wrong . cheers bobby from the uk

Searching for awesomeness!!

Omg...omg...OMG!!

Lets face it - for 200¤ you'll get premium built quality guitar that feels and looks like 2000¤ Taylor.

Sound of this guitar is remarkable and you can easily compare it to guitars in higher price range (around 500¤ or even 700¤).

It also STAYS IN TUNE perfectly but as new as it is we will just have to wait a few months to see wood prigress, but Fishman electronic built on it will provide your audience the same feel that you have on stage.

There is no need for me to say more, I have already played one gig with this beautiful piece of art, even i got it 2 weeks ago.

If you are really honest musician and searching for something around this price range than this is your "must have" instrument.

Unbelievable at that price

I play for 40 years, have 12 various guitars and play semi pro.

I have 4 acoustic guitars, from classic, dreadnought, grand auditorium and now also jumbo.

I really bought this guitar just for fun, because it's price is very nice and I read and saw some excelent reviews. I allways liked SJ-200 natural, but never found enough reason to actually buy it, as it is pretty expensive and my desire was never that strong.

With this one, one just can not go wrong. You get plenty of guitar for the money, excellent built, setup, solid electronics.

From the moment of unwrapping this guitar looks like it is triple or four times the price. It is very nice to play, excellent setup with Daddario EXP16 0,12 gauge.

neck is setup perfectly, action great and suitable for this kind of acoustic guitar.

And here we come to the next - what is this guitar meant for.

This is strumming type of guitar with rich and deep sound. Very neutral without any special character (martin, taylor, gibson sound...) resembling more to Ibanez or PRS neutral sound.

Since I have it only two days, this can be partly because acoustics get their character after some time of playing and when the wood properly matures.

This guitar has some raw spruce scent that makes me think, that wood could be a bit forced, so I will wait some time and be carefull, that I don't dry it out.

I expect, that harmonics will develop through time and use, right now it's more strings that give character to the sound.

So, when comparing this guitar to my grand auditorium Tanglewood TW170ASCE, Tanglewood sounds more mature, less deep bass but splendid mids and highs for fingerpicking, less for strumming.

Jumbo King CENT is quite opposite - mellow at fingerpicking, but great at open and full chords strumming.

But that is basically, what was expected from shape and wood and why I did buy this guitar.

I didn't expect much and I was pleasantly surprised and I still don't expect much, mut i see that this guitar has some potential to be more than just solid instrument.

But time will tell.

Anyway, great use of money and totaly worth it. Everybody that saw it, immediately guessed the price range of around 1000? or even more.

Edited after few months:

sound: developed more to typical Gibson SJ200 sound, sounds great when recorded.

as to mellow sound - it's not that, it is just that increased lower tones give different sound to high strings.

when played hard, this guitar roars!

action: set up high for strumming which it does excelently. If one wants to lower action, the whole mustache bridge has to be lowered. If you lower the action, some of the roar when strummed hard goes away.

Guitar tunes excelent and keeps tunning astonishingly.

Anyway, this guitar is not so much for gentle fingerpicking (jumbo's never meant to be anyway...) or it looses much of character.

Changed strings to D'addario EXP 12-56. It works great.

Oh ....my....goodness.

Everything in this guitar is just right.

The neck is a pleasure to play.

The tuners....well...Grover.

The intonation is perfect from factory, no mod required. It comes with a Tusq compensated saddle. Action is very good too, not too low, not too high...you can easily riff and also play Jazz.

The tone is well balanced, lots of bass and overall a very pleasant sound. It sounds even better with an O-Port

Headstock, bindings, etc... all top quality.

The pickguard is black, fully black, no tortoise imitation shenanigans.

The neck inlays are truly beautiful, they have colorful inverted triangle inside the square inlays (inlay inside inlay)

Even the strings from factory are good. It came almost in tune too.

The fishman pickup system is good, well, a piezo....(you'll need some tone modeller such the zoom A3 or the Aura) and the inbuilt tuner is VERY good. The system comes with volume, bass, treble and phase.

10/10 for this guitar....just wow!

Update: Works great with an O-Port, the bass gets a bit tamed and the guitar overall balance is better, also it projects it's sound better.

great value guitar

this guitar has surprised me by how good it is for very little money. Daddario strings fishman pickup and preamp, grover tuners. top quality stuff. most people mistake it for a much more expensive brand

Great Acoustic

This big bodied beauty is fantastic. Great rich sound, with a lot of bass in there (which I like but others may not) and good volume from the jumbo body. This is currently my only acoustic apart from a classical guitar, as I have sold on all the other lower end models I have had due to dissatisfaction with sound or playability. This one is a keeper.

The finish is generally lovely but some of the faux mother of pearl stuff on the bridge is a little dodgy, but its just artefact anyway, for the money you cannot expect better. The finish on the headstock however is absolutely perfect and very stylish, many people have mistaken this for an extremely up market guitar when I have played it for them.

Plugged into a PA with a small bit of reverb it sounds fantastic and the built in tuner is a welcome addition.

Jumbo land

there's a great sound off this guitar both from the pick up and the acoustic . Some might say the acoustic sound has a bit too much bass but that's the way I like it and it is a jumbo after all . The Fishman pickup sounds great . Nice Grover tuning heads and it holds it's tuning from one gig to another . The only thing I didn't like was the finish of the bridge was a bit rough and bulky but I smoothed that down myself . the timber in the neck could have been selected a bit better But for 200 euro I have to say I am Very pleased with this Guitar .