Harley Benton HB JA-60SB Vintage Series 5-stars Reviews

Outstanding playability.

Hand down the most comfortable playing guitar I own. Made a few hardware upgrades, and man, I own guitars that cost more, but this one beats em all. Absolutely would buy again. And probably will!

I love Harley's : )

This one I bought for a lady friend of mine.

From my 1 week impression, Helluva guitar, small and light, and the pickups are just MEAN. super versatile!.

No cons that I could see. It looks VERY easily moddable and adjustable, all the parts sit well in their place.

btw I told her like 1000 times to set it up nicely to elixr 9's but she still didn't do it and she gets great sounds from it.

The Rating is mine but im sure she'll agree.

Can't be beaten at this price range

I wanted a offset guitar for a long time so I bough this just to see if it's something I will dig, in the end it became my second guitar for gigs, I have a Telecaster with a chopper in the bridge position as my main, but this one is just great for my taste.Just polish the frets a bit, and you are ready to go.

P.S. I wrote this after using this guitar for more than two years.

HB <3

better than you have any right to expect.

Really nice for anything under $ 500 to $600. And at the price point it is great. Only minor setup was required but I am a luthier so I do setup on all guitars. Wasn't sure I would be keeping the pickups but they sound good at this price you expect to replace tuners but these function

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Of course, I am not a master and in general I have only recently started playing the electric guitar, but I will say this: Harley put high quality material into this guitar, great sound and accessibility (price). Thank you very much, Tomann, for delivering me a quality product.

Love it

Fretboard needed some oil, but that's it! I play pretty aggressively and it never goes out of tune. Very happy with it.

wow

my first HB

what a quality for that money!!!

pros:

the finish is better then my epiphone!

the looks

the sound

cons:

fret are a bit ruff

so nice

it is impossible to adjust the pickup, and everything is perfect

Whaaaaaaaaa?

I have no idea how they did it but Harley Benton have made a real gem here. The sunburst is as nice as any you are going to get in the sub £500 bracket (I mean that) and it plays great, holds it's tune and has a fantastic range of tones. Anyone looking for a straight Jazzmaster copy might be slightly disappointed as this is slightly smaller in the body yet has a more resonant, weightier tone. Almost as if a Jazzmaster and a Les Paul had a baby. Very cool guitar at an unbelievable price. I don't care who you are, you should think about getting one of these. For the money you cannot do any better.

If it only had a whammy bar

Love this guitar have used it for three recordings since i've owned it. Fit and finish are great, sound is very authentic, but MAN I WISH IT HAD A WAMMY BAR!

Great P 90 Guitar

I was looking for a P 90 pickup guitar. I had seen reviews on the web, so I decided to get it.

The guitar is beautiful, plays and sounds good.

For the price you can't go wrong.

Amazing guitar for the beginner

I've been searching for the first guitar so long and I've finally found it!

There is so comfortable fretboard, frets, such beautiful body, good tuners and good sounding pickups.

I can't find any cons in this guitar for this price. I absolutely love this!

A keeper

After a year or so after buying….

This guitar is a keeper. I reshaped her neck to a slimmer profile and changed pickups for Classic Vibe ones.

I never owned a true Jazz Master or even a CV, but I ‘m not interested in one , for now.

This one does it for me. Smooth , sweeter sounding , (hard tailed in this case) strat. I guess Leo Fender was thinking of the in between position 2 and 4, when building her. The mid range spectrum .

She stays.

Pleasant Suprise

Bought on a whim because of the low price, but turns out there is "something" about this guitar. It's such a pleasure to play that I pick it up up every day over "nicer" guitars. It's very loud acoustically, notes ring out clearly, and the pickups have a great sound somewhere between humbuckers and fender-style single coils. Extremely happy that I bought this guitar

Great modproject

Due the low quest and great quality of the body and hardware this is the ideal modproject. Highly recommend it when you want to upgrade this Jazzmaster.

Unbeatable for the price

I wanted a guitar that would give me a retro feel & vibe as I was filling in a role for a cover band. This hit the spot and was great for bashing out riffs with abandonment, no fear of damaging an expensive instrument. The quality is nearer to £300 epiphone, indeed if I had paid £299 I would not grumble. Good setup out of the box, and the sound is creamy and ideal for fuzz

Very nice guitar

Great value, this guitar was very playable right out of the box. I tuned it up adjusted the intonation a little and I'm off to the races. The neck and frets were good enough to make me happy. I've owned 10 different guitars this one makes me happy. I'm a hap hap happy boy.

Very nice guitar

My first jazzmaster-shape guitar

I liked it

Pros

Awesome authentic sound

Small price

Opportunity to try out the guitar shape you are interested in

Nice finish

Cons

Frets are unpolished , it is impossible to make bands ( I have not seen this on any guitar)

Deep scratch on the front of the guitar on the wood under the varnish (Yes, you can see them)

Very tight machine heads

Didn't put a sticker about saving guitars :(

More than what you pay for!

I got this keeping in mind that it would be "Just alright" but now after having used it for a little while its much more than that. Its an absolutely fantastic piece of equipment for the price.

Pros:

- Decent pickups

- Tuners are better than my more expensive Epihones and other big brands

- Very well put together

Cons:

- Fret ends are a bit rough, but that is easily solved with a small file and some time.

- Even if the tuners are alright, doesn't mean they're good. If you want to switch them out for their locking tuners, be prepared for some precision drilling.

What an incredible value, easily worth $300

Really great guitar, absolutely suitable for an intermediate or advanced player in my opinion. Looks great, pickups sound fantastic, stock tuners do their job well, I have absolutely no complaints at all, keep it up Harley Benton! 😍