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

It dries up in winter so that it is impossible to play

With the beginning of the heating season, the frets come out of the neck, a ringing appears, the strings fall on the neck and do not sound.

For a Jumbo (J-200) copy , it does the job!

Unless you have 10 times as much to spend on an original Gibson baby...well this would do the job nicely. No complaints on performance levels when there is noise around...(band noise), but it feels poor when you need to cut through the mix. For the price is perfect !

Good guitar

About guitar:

Good guitar with good quality and sound. I'm satisfied.

Nice Custom Line King

Excellent guitar for the money. I am lucky I got a good Harley Benton on this pull. My other two (both electrics) were not as good quality/play-ability wise.

Excellent value!

A truly stunning looking guitar, even better up close than in the photos.

At sessions this guitar certainly cut's through and never gets lost in the mix like some other acoustics I have played. The bass notes are clear, warm and yet still booming. The treble however is a little weak and I found myself staying away from anything after the 5th fret. Now for this guitar that is not really a major issue, for it's price and type all I was expecting was a guitar for playing at informal sessions where chording and a little fingerstyle was all that was required. For that it's sound is perfect.

HOWEVER, this guitar has one major problem. The neck is almost unplayable for more than 30 to 60 minutes in one go. I have been playing for almost 20 years and never before found a neck that caused me to cramp up so quickly. The dimension of the neck at the nut is for me totally crippling. While I can play it the guitar sounds nice. The machine heads work like a dream, the electrics are wonderful. Though an amp this guitar really sounds fantastic especially playing country but I just cannot play it for very long. I have to split my playing between this and my other acoustic just to get around this issue. It's such a shame that a little more time was not taken on the neck, as the root of a wonderful guitar, worth it's place in anyone's collection is there. If more time was taken fixing that neck.