Harley Benton Custom Line King-CE NT 5-stars Reviews

After reading several reviews about this guitar, I thought let's give it a shot...

The result is amazing. This guitar does not look like a "under ¤200" guitar. The finish has its flaws here and there, but for the price it is perfect. I got the plain black scratch plate, which is OK.

Sound wise, I only tested it acoustically. Sounds well balanced, full, deep and clear at the same time. Both for strumming and picking. It is also loud enough. (The wife is giving me the eye from the couch..)

Play-ability needs some work. The guitar came out of tune and not properly set-up. After tuning I found out the intonation is good, but the action and neck bow need adjustment. The action for me is rather high (3.5mm)(I'm used to electrical guitars). The neck itself feels great. Good shape as well. I'll give it a proper setup and update on the result.

Overall, this is a great guitar. Considering the price you can't go wrong.

Harley Benton HB Custom Line King-CE NT

Gitara je na prvý poh?ad krásna. Potom sa prizrie ?lovek bli¸¨ie a ona je krásna aj v detajloch. Dokonalé spracovanie nástroja, dobrúsené pra¸ce a gitara ladí vo v¨etkých polohách. Zvuk je na dvesto eurovú gitaru a¸ neskuto?ne výborný. Pred kúpou som si pre?ítal ohlasy a recenzie na zna?ku Harley Benton, ktoré boli a¸ moc pozitivne. Recenzie neklamali. Som neskuto?ne rád ¸e mám doma gitaru s parádnym zvukom a vzh?adom za pár ¨upov,

Simply the BEST

The sound of this maple guitar is warm, pleasant and beautiful. The look is very expensive and the materials are very, very good. Thank you guys for making this instrument! Simply the best, the high quality, beautiful guitar at an unbeatable price! The prefect choice for a serious beginner and a pro alike!

A truly excellent istrument

This Guitar is amazing, plays well, finish is superb. just required a tune and no other adjustment. Sounds great amplified or on a microphone. I tried the equivalent Epiphone and this is better.

All pros no cons!!!

I need not write more.

Excellent Value and Well made

Bought Harley Benton King CT NA for home use upgrading from my Yamaha f310. It arrived in the USA 13 days after placing order.

Pros:

Looks impressive, light in weight, tuners are very precise, fret work and set up excellent, neck straight and level with zero relief, sound is just like the Youtube videos very balanced, electronic tuner works well, beautiful inlays, nice binding, intonation is perfect. I have worked on many guitars over the years and was prepared to do adjustments but all I had to do for this was tune it. After having it for two days, I compared it to many guitars at local music store and the only thing that came close was a Gibson J-45 priced at $2794USD. I'm pleased with this guitar and am happily breaking it in.

Cons:

Paperwork for electronics is for a different system. The diagrams have knobs my doesn't have. Wires inside buzz when I play the high G on the low E string but I can find a way to stop that. May lead to an addiction that causes more Harley Benton purchases.

Update:2019

After some time the top by the bridge began to raise and action was high and stiff. I sanded down the bridge (which was very thick) and bridge saddle and now it plays excellent with comfortable action.

My fifth attempt to buy a guitar is finally very succesful

This is fifth guitar in my family.

(1) First was a Chineese guitar with nylon strings. It is nice to play, actually, but I bought it some 5 years ago and did not play much.

(2) 12-string DR-212 Epiphone. Bad tunining machines, loses tuning in 5 minutes, sound is crap.

(3) Electric Squier Strato for my son. Everything is fine but nut width... is 40mm!

(4) Fender CC-60S NAT. Good, but the sound is very quiet.

(5) And this Harley Benton Jumbo. Nut width is 43, a bright, loud low/high sounds, and electro-acoustic, very good tuners, and the sound...

Brilliant!

The only thing the built-in Fishmann electronic tuner is not very accurate, but I do not use it anyway.

Just added (does not change my estimation). Another thing : total nut width 43mm (OK), but the string spacing 37mm. Would be very good to have 38mm (my Fender) or even more.

Harley Benton ROCKS !

His is what you are looking for! This guitar blowes away when you look at the price. It could get some more tone, but I LOVE IT !

This is guitar in class about 800euro, so why you want to spend more for any other !

Harley Benton HB Custom Line King-CE NT

great guitar love it. projects sound very good and loud.plug it in to the PA and sounded great to all my friends are hoging it from me lol.

Exceptional Guitar, Outstanding Value

I have been playing for more years than I care to think about and own quite a good number of guitars both acoustic and electric.

Before I bought this I read a lot of reviews so I expected a decent guitar for the money. It arrived in six business days and was solidly packaged.

When I removed it from the box I was stunned, I couldn't fault it, not on a single thing. I tuned it and then played it. The tone is bright and it projects well, the intonation was spot on and the action is light,

All in all you will find it extremely difficult to match this guitar at anything resembling the price bracket.

Buy this, I doubt you'll regret it.

Impressive HB jumbo acoustic natural.

I've been playing semi-professionally for many decades and have owned many different models - acoustic/ semi acoustic/ electro. From the moment I unpacked this guitar I was struck by its quality. It has a nice weight and balance, feels like "it wants to be played", beautiful maple grain finish, perfect frets and overall just an unbelievable bargain. Great sound from rounded bass to crisp sweet high notes. Good action, intonation and playability out of the box. I really look forward to 'playing in' this baby in the year ahead. The useful onboard tuner works 100% and though I'll mostly be playing "unplugged" the pickup system covers a sufficient tone range and the controls work smoothly. Minor suggestion - add a decorative inlay on the plain black pickguard to go with the classy design on the headstock.

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....

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.

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