Harley Benton HBO-850 Classic Natural

good for its price

It's a pretty good guitar that works with Neural DSP amps. However, it needs some luthier work for optimal performance. I did not experience any major defects other than very small part missing which you can hardly see from the decoration (wings) part which does not affect the sound.

Very good

Very good sound, a good option for a good price

Worth every dollar!

Took almost a month and international shipping to Australia cost more than the guitar price itself but it's worth every dollar!

All my friends want to buy it from me but hell no! not in a thousand year!

easy conversion

bought this guitar as an experiment, it is a nylon string classical guitar, this guitar is built like a brick house, I installed a set of extra light acoustic steel strings and it is still going strong. The only fault with this guitar is the same as all roundback acoustics in that they tend to slide off your knee.

Nylon string guitar

Great playing and sounding guitar. Had to do some fret filing but nothing to to bad and at this price I don’t mind doing a little work.

Nice guitar for the price

Out of the box the action was very high making the the guitar largely unplayable, however this was rectified with truss rod adjustments and removing the bridge saddle and sanding it down to my preferred low action and the guitar now plays beautifully. Sharp, poorly dressed fret ends right across the neck which will benefit from dressing. The leaf motifs on the soundboard are glued on and not inlayed. Onboard electronics are okay. In summary, a nice guitar for the price if you are able to make the necessary set up adjustments.

Excellent for the price, but...

This is very well made and I think it sounds pretty good too. It has a neck that, as an electric guitar player with some arthritis, I find very comfortable. It's like an oversized strat neck, sort of. I like it.

The guitar needed some work to be made to play nicely, and as I do guitar setups that isn't a problem for me. But anyone buying one should be aware of this. Mostly it was OK...good construction and finish, tuners and piezo electrics worked...but there were some very rough fret ends and, although the fretboard is radiused, they put a flat nut and bridge on it like a conventional nylon string guitar so the outside strings were very high. I did some filing and polishing to curve them to the radius, and now it plays great...but it shouldn't have been necessary to do, especially as someone could do it poorly and damage their guitar.

Super Quality & Sound

The guitar arrived in perfect condition and the set-up was spot-on requiring only re-tuning. Intonation very good!

Good guitar for the price!

Bought this on a whim and don´t regret it at all. Took a little bit of cleaning when I got it but after that it has been great. Do wish the tuners were a little bit of a higher quality but it does stay in tune. For the price its a good buy !!

Best deal I know of

For 111.00 and 90.00 shipping to the USA Not bad. I could've spent 150 more and got something here slightly better. But this purchase was well worth it. The guitar is beautiful.I haven't noticed any cosmetic flaws. The tuners and nut and saddle are cheap so I have to tune a string or 2 the next day when first picking it up.Nothing major. That can be fixed with some bone blanks. For the price I'm not complaining at all. Ive been playing 30 years and haven't had a nylon in years. I wish the electronics included a tuner. So get a snarky.But I'm going to change that the moment a control becomes loose or scratchy. If I had known I would have bought a resonator guitar along with it.No point in paying the high shipping twice So if I can expect this type of quality and service I'll just have to come back