Harley Benton ST-20LH BK Standard Series

Nice Strat, great price

At 63, I am finally living the dream and learning guitar and didn’t want to break the bank. Found HB guitars online, read a ton of reviews (some good, some not so good), and decided that at this price point to take a chance. My guitar arrived today and I must say I am impressed. Absolutely beautiful finish, very good build quality, super neck with not a single fret sprout. To my novice ears, it sounds decent through my little practice amp. The fretboard looks good, but is very dry. I will be taking it to a local music store for a pro setup to clean the frets, oil the fretboard, tweak the neck if needed, check the intonation, change strings, etc. Will probably swap out the pickups as well. All in all? Very satisfied customer here.

Whammy bar slot

The whole guitar sounds good , its a good strat for this money , but be carefull with the whammy bar slot because if you accidentally screw it in too much you will ruin the stopper and you will need to replace the tremolo or find a way to fix the stopper

GOOD guitar

good guitar for beginners and also people who wants to mod guitars

You get more than what you pay for

It is a "S" type guitar. For the money it is a great player with upgrade potential.

Another great HB guitar

I bought this to do a neck swap with my other st-20 and fit better electrics and HSS pickups along with black plastic bits, so not exactly the standard use for the item!

Once again the construction quality and overall functionality of the guitar was spot on and it speaks volumes for a product's consistency when parts can be easily interchanged.

I think these are superb guitars for beginners and with a few clever upgrades can definitely hold the attention of more serious players.

This guitar is the perfect base for customising, I've put together two really nice guitars from mine.

What holds these back from being really good is the pickups and electrics, which are of a perfectly acceptable standard for the price and for someone just starting. The bits that can't easily be upgraded don't need to be, such as solid wood bodies and well made necks.

Don’t be snobby buy Harley Benton and see

Once again this guitar costs nothing the quality is great and would be no better if you paid ten times the cost of this guitar and the sound is off the scale it’s not a major risk just buy one and see

Harley Hendrix Benton

I managed to kill two birds with one stone in this purchase. I wanted to try a Harley Benton guitar as I was seduced by the low prices . I also wanted to try a left-handed guitar as a right handed guitar just to get the Jimi Hendrix Experience.! There is a Vintage brand guitar which gives the right handed guitarist the Jimi "sound" but I wanted to feel what Jimi was up against in playing his guitar as a left handed player. The things that were against him were:- restricted access to the top notes on the treble strings ,arm in the way of the volume and tone controls , no conture on the now upper side of the guitar and the tremelo arm is also in the way of certain techniques . I always noticed that he played his guitar fairly high on his left side as this facilitated his method of reaching around below the trem . I have found that the trem arm gets in the way for my style of playing so I wonder what Jimi might have achieved if he'd had a proper left-handed guitar . So In spite of all the draw backs he managed to influence the world with his playing . By playing a left handed guitar right handed I am finding out what Jimi started with and I understand his style better . I now call this guitar my Harley Hendrix !!