Harley Benton ST-20 SB Standard Series 5-stars Reviews

good price for this quality

For beginners

It's great choice for beginners or whom trying to get in the world of guitars I highly recommend it.

Awesome as a first guitar

theres nothing bad i can say about this guitar really.it plays well out of the box and even better with a professional setup. the potentiometres are a little on the low end side but you can only expect so much from a 72 dollar guitar. highly recommend this as your first guitar

A Killer of Cheap Stratocaster

The product is more than amazing for the price. Quality is great for the segment, the sound is very decent. But unsure about "modern C" neck profile, more looks like classic "C". I wouldn't recommend this guitar for heavy styles.

The best product for that money

Everything is great. you get additional tools for tuning and changing the wire. Guitar tremolo is very hard, so I'm afraid the guitar won't crack. But everything else works perfectly.

Harley Benton Guitar

Husband is pleased with guitar but there is a small scratch on white part of body. Also disappointed there was no strap or plectrum. otherwise doing my head in, LOL

Beginner's review

As I had no previous experience with guitars I'm really surprised by quality of this guitar, but also I'm quite 'picky' so i will point what annoys me.

Finish of body is flawless, that means no sharp edges, paintwork is spot on.

Neck - frets are good, maybe on the side edges it would need a little bit of sanding to get them smooth with side of the neck. I recommend to buy Lemon oil to cure fretboard, it was little bit dry.

Tuners - well those feel.. Cheap, even me as a guitar noob can tell this not great. I guess I will be swapping them for better ones.

Pickups - well they get their job done, I Will be swapping bridge pickup for hotrail humbucker, and also pickup switch, it's little bit wiggly to my feeling.

Pickguard - it's good, nothing to complaint about, it's just plastic, I didn't have it opened yet if there's additional shielding.

Tremolo - I didn't use that, most reviews says not to use (due to tuning), so I will stick to that.

So overall for me go for it, If you are beginner. I was considering Fender Squier, but considering the price (+50€ for fender) this was best choice, as I can upgrade this guitar to my liking with the same price with upgrades to the fender without ones.

Note: in package is cable, screwdriver for neck and bridge, tremolo stick.

Excellent choice for begginer

On the outside is really good finish, but oh boy the inside is pretty gross

Excellent quality straight out of the box. Just tuned the guitar and played. Great action ,the set-up was great.Very good pickups and a very good finish. I have paid more for guitars not as good as the st20

Astonishing value

I am a techie-type and have been playing electric guitar for fifty years. I bought this Strat-style guitar for the sole purpose of fitting my MIDI pickup to it which I was desperate to get off my real Strat because it gets in the way of comfortable playing and also requires undersireble settings of string-height etc.

I therefore was never intending to play this HB-ST20 actually as a guitarist, I had no interest in the tone or the action or anything else because all I intended to do was play slow, simple chord-changes to control my synth via MIDI.

As such, I bought the cheapest guitar I could find and had very low expectations.

When this guitar arrived I was literally ASTONISHED by it. I can hardly believe that it is possible to buy such an excellent instrument for so little money.

I can see no significant flaw in the finsh - this guitar looks great.

The scratchplate is proper too - three-ply white/black/white as it should be.

The sound is very good. As a lifelong (American) Strat player I know what a Strat should sound like and this extremely inexpensive guitar comprehensively achieves it. The "tubular" sound of a Strat neck pickup, the spanky brightness of the bridge pickup, the distinctive hollow sound of the 2 and 4 switch positions ...... it does it all.

The neck profile is quite thick - this is not an ultra-slim C-shaped neck, more of a D - but I found it very comfortable indeed and despite decades of playing slim C-shaped necks I immediately felt at home with it.

In recent years there has been a trend away for high gloss finsh on the neck because with the slight dampness of a hand the neck becomes sitcky to the feel and slower. The finish on this neck is matt and it feels fast. The frets are well finished, no sharp edges, fret-sprout or radically uneven heights. It needed a set-up but once the intonation and string heights were correct, the action is low. The nut was quite well cut - some small improvement would be possible, but it's definitely close to it's ideal straight out of the box.

The pickups sounded good both clean and into distortion.

The tuners are nothing wonderful but they're fine, perfectly serviceable and far better than expected.

As I said at the beginning. I am literally astonished at how good this guitar is. Assuming that the one I received was typical then I would absolutely recommend this guitar to anyone.

As a guitar for beginner/inexperienced it is ideal, but this guitar is an actual INSTRUMENT which experienced and seasoned players would be happy to play.

My sole criticism is that the tremelo arm is an extremely sloppy fit, but excessive play in screw-in tremelo arms is a long-standing problem even for big name brands so don't be put off by that. People have been putting tape etc on tremelo arm threads since the day Fender launched the first Strat, it's all "part of the joy" :-p

great sound, amazing to handle

very happy with this guitar and it has great sound and is amazing to handle

Best Value

I ordered from Mexico, paid import taxes on top of shipping and it is still a great value instrument.

One of the best

Such a nice guitar,very nice color the finish on gorgeous , pretty good sound for the price of it i like it a lot

Finish is good can’t be beaten on price would certainly expect to pay more everything as it should be out of the box.

Лучшая гитара за эти &#107

Это моя первая электрогитара и я в восторге от неё. Качество сборки и материалов на высоте. Звучит отлично, немного звенят лады на первых позициях, но я думаю все это можно устранить более точной настройкой инструмента. Строй держит отлично. Высоту струн удалось подстроить по себя идеально.

Выбирал между покупкой squier bullet в России и этой моделью, однозначно нужно брать Harley Benton, по цене намного дешевле и ничем не уступает буллету!

This was a gift

I havent played it but he loved it and thats what counts. It was sent overseas and made a young man very happy

Remarkable quality for a very good price!

This Harley Benton ST-20 SB model is a fine cut electric six string with beautiful features and nice overall sound. While essentially a Fender Squier/Stratocaster imitation, this particular model retains a certain degree of originality as well (particularly in the choice of colour).

Overall good quality for a very good price and highly recommended to any guitar player out there!

I would like say thank you first of all.It arrived my country in 10 days and without any damage.My previous guitar has a very bad frets but this one i cant leave my guitar alone .It is smooth and best guitar for this price.I recommed this guitar for every guitar learner.But only one problem is there little is buzz in E string.That is it.And i think it is acceptable for this price range.Now I am going to rock and good luck those who is about choose their very first electric guitar.Rock but dont roll.Cause we need you alive:))))

Unbelievable Quality

Totally impressed and amazed at craftsmanship of this guitar.. The feel and playability is awesome. Have ordered new pickups the ones installed will do the job preference is wanted hot coffee tax style for this guitar. Is quickly becoming my favorite..but we will see...........anxiously awaiting the s.c. Custom fr .I will definitely be purchasing from Harley Benton in the future

Very good value but work required!

Very good value but unfortunately this wasn't a guitar I could unbox and start playing. The good news is that nothing needed replacing.

Biggest problems were a complete lack of intonation and excessive string height which were easily fixed. The nut still needs work to fix sitar on open B and minor fret work is required to get the action how I like but then the guitar should be in pretty good shape.

However, I also purchased a TE-52 in addition to this model and I believe that to be better value despite the higher price.