Harley Benton Custom Line King-CE NT 4-stars Reviews

great guitar

Terrible pre amp. I removed it as soon as I tried it and replaced it with a btter on.

Great guitar!

Have had this guy for about 2 years. The tuning stability is great, and it's pretty comfortable to play (as long as you're okay with the larger Jumbo Frame). It sounds great Mic'd up too. All around solid guitar (specially for the price).

The guitar was great out of the box. Unfortunately my lower E string snapped during the tuning processes which was very upsetting! The rest of the strings are great though - just gutted I can't play it after waiting so long for the package to arrive </3

Best value for the money

Before telling about the guitar I must admit, that I used to play only electric guitars before, but I always wanted an acoustic Jumbo guitar. So I thought this might be a good choice for me (and it really is).

The guitar looks and sounds amazing. Although, the neck bindings are not very accurate and has some issues. However, they are really visible only if you pay attention to it and they are not affecting playability and sound. The latter is, so to say, is great.

The equipment is great as well. Seriously, Fishman pickup and Grover machine heads for this price. They both work perfectly and It's already almost half of the cost of the guitar.

One thing that need to be mentioned is the size of the frets. They are really very very small (they are both low and slim). After electric guitar these frets are really hard to use, because they require much more pressure. There were no info about it in other reviews, so the fret size was a bit unpleasant surprise for me. However, I guess, it just requires some time to get used to it.

In overall, I can surely recommend this great guitar to anybody who wants and needs good quality instrument with great sound. This is definitely best choice for the money.

Great Value

This is a beautifully built guitar with an awesome sound. Comfortable to play, easy to adjust, pleasing to look at. I've gigged this guitar so far 4 times or so, and it is definitely satisfactory. I usually change the strings right away with new guitars and basses, but the strings on this one gave me no trouble at all, so I didn't bother to change them. One complaint: I wish it had a little more bass.

Pro:

Price

Sound

Construction

Design

Two strap hooks

Cons:

Needs a little more bass to suit my personal taste

Needs better fret job

Good for a beginner

Good for a beginner, action is high - could not get it much better. Ok for a all round deep tone. The make is ok - the fishman pickup however is great!!

A well made guitar which, sadly, had a nasty buzz on the low E. As the neck relief was correct I decided to pass on this one.

HB Jumbo Acoustic

Amazing guitar for the price! Being mostly maple it is a little bright sounding acoustically other than that no issues at all straight out of the box!

Stays in tune, plays great! the finish and craftsmanship is top notch!

Highly recommend this guitar

very nice for the money

very nice all around. only complaint is the action being a somewhat high. action at the nut is set nicely. bridge seems a bit high/thick, with a miniscule amount of saddle that can be shaven down (right on the border). we'll see if I'm able to take that saddle down some to get the action at a comfortable height. other than that, well-made and great sounding. finish is wonderful as well.

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

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.

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 .