Harley Benton TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series Reviews

Great guitar nicely setup may change the pickupps

Clean & Sharp

First HB i've purchased. Won't be my last. Great looking and pretty decent sounding guitar for what you pay. In fact, i've had a couple of other makes that cost 4 to 5 times as much that this HB sounds as good as and plays just as well or better. I would do a live gig with this in place of any of my higher dollar "Professional" guitars. Really fun to play and it looks great just sitting in the stand.

Beautiful with possible design flaw

The "B" & "E" string rub against the back of the bridge. We'll see what that does to string life over time. It sounds great. The fret ends were well-tooled. It holds tune. It plays well and is gorgeous.

overall good for the money

Pros:

Powerful pickup signal

Very long sustain

Sounds good

Cons:

Poor pre-sale preparation

Frets are not polished, so the bends make a terrible scratching sound - this is the biggest drawback.

Highly lifted strings over the neck. - In my case, over 22 frets it was 0.5 centimeters, but this is easy to fix.

The strings sound at different volumes - you need to adjust the height of the core of each pickup.

On the fretboard in the structure of the tree visible mote - I think this is potentially bad.

A remarkable guitar

Good sound and intonation. Excellent quality and a beautiful guitar.

Awesome for this price!

TNX for your service! This product is very good for this price.

My recommendations.

Great Looking, but Ruined by HB Packaging

Pros: Absolutely beautiful guitar, very well designed.

Cons:

- Extremely poor packaging design, resulting in shipping damage that it was utterly unable to protect the guitar from.

- Sound rated very poor due to being unplayable.

- Quality poor (for bad packaging design resulting in otherwise preventable damage)

I was very distressed to open this damaged HB TE-40 TBK. Upon opening it, we found it to be damaged due to a combination of mistreatment during shipping and very poor Harley Benton packaging. The Bridge Humbucker was broken due to having been smacked hard on its face during shipping. Harley Benton packed the guitar stand right next to the face of the guitar and the box was tweaked during shipment such that the guitar stand had nowhere to go except into the face of the guitar, breaking the humbucker. We found all of the internal guitar box padding unglued from their intended locations inside the box and just free floating around the guitar, providing no padding for impacts. So sad.

This is my second HB guitar. Right now, I don't think I will order any more from HB again.

Awesome, better than expected.

About me:

Been playing for over 35 years, average at best. Mostly a 70s rockhead, Stones, CCR... I can play anything if you don’t mind it sounding like Chuck Berry….Ha Ha…

I have about 20 guitars (only 1 acoustic..) Some good - USA 72 Deluxe Tele, PRS SE Custom 24 Exotic Top, Ibanez S series, some not so good – the wife has a Hanna Montana Washburn… crazy woman…

I recently bought the HB CST24HB and TE-70 Paisley and loved them so much that I followed up by buying the CST-24T Black Flame and the TE-90QM Trans Red. Now I have just purchased the Harley Benton TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series and the Harley Benton HBO-850NT.

Review of the Harley Benton TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series:

Pros:

This guitar looks amazing.

It has a slim neck that plays fast. The action is low, <1.5mm@ 6th.

Very versatile guitar that handles cleans through to JCM800 very well.

Nice contoured body that fit my 24 pack well. Just a nice fit standing or seated.

Pickups are great.

OKs:

Tuners are just tuners, no big issue.

No coil tap, no big issue.

Cons:

Finger board was a bit dry... no big deal.

Conclusion:

100% recommended.

Should have bought it years ago.

Whoopydo.

Perfect guitar for me good weight and an amazing instrument for the money.

Thanks.

TE-40 TBK Deluxe

Very pleased with the look and feel. Good finishing and the only fixing required is a bit of fret end filing (could have left it the way it was ). Pickups suprised me. Warm fat bottom end and very responsive. I have guitars that cost 5+ times more that do not sound any better. Looking forward to taking this out on stage.

Great when fixed.

Just starting my adventure into electric guitar. This will be an excellent platform to learn on. Sadly, the guitar arrived with only one working pickup at the bridge. The pickup wiring utilizes some questionable connectors. Makes assembly quick, but they are not secure. Came loose again after 10 minutes, then the bridge pickup stopped working for the same reason. Once repaired the sound is wonderfully bright and pleasing. Workmanship on the rest of the guitar is quite good. It required tuning, of course, but the setup and action was good. Very pleased overall, but the initial issues could be a big problem for some people.

love you guys. guitar is unreal for the price

TE-40 Great Bang for the buck

Comfortable to play love the neck but it is heavy great value I made many mods and would do it again.

Amazing

Lots of positives including tuning stability, intonation, straight neck and even frets. Slight buzz while playing acoustically is the only negative I see.

This is one really nice guitar!

This guitar, right out of the box was very nice. Just tuned it up and played very well. It looks good and plays very well. Setup from the factory was all most perfect. Love this guitar and would recommend it to any one! Nice one!

TE-40 TBK Deluxe Great Quality Big Sound For A Small Price

I live in Calgary AB. Canada and came across Harley Benton Guitars on You Tube. I liked the review on Guitar Max. So I ordered one.

I play with some buddies and sometimes we gig occasionally throughout the summer.....just for fun. So with that In mind for this coming up summer I purchased TE-40 TBK Deluxe. I cannot say enough good things about this guitar. The first Thing I did when I received the TE-40 was had it set up. I took It In to my luthier. He Just loved the guitar. He told me it was a good solid guitar and I made a smart purchase. He was impressed I paid so little for It.

I totally agree with him. The neck on the guitar is great. The pick ups sound awesome. The guitar itself looks amazing . Its light weight not hard on the shoulder. The bridge is very good on this guitar. It is better sounding and playing than many high end guitars. Its affordable and reasonably priced. The tuning keys are a little stiff but once locked in they hold fine. Some might want to switch them out for grovers but Im just fine with the way they are . Only thing I would change for sure is the nut . Its plastic and really would be better if it was bone.

So there you have in under 300 words !

This is just a great guitar . I like these Harley Benton guitars so much I just picked out another one and ordered it lol !

Thank You Mr. Benton

Sincerely Yours ,

David Currie

Overall quality and tone are very impressive! Will definitely buy another HB in the future!

I had heard good things about the house brand, Harley Benton and I was not disappointed! It arrived in great condition despite the long travel to the US (was packaged very well). This guitar played great right away. There was not any real adjustments I needed to make. I did not expect the ergonomic body bevels and piping that make this model (TE-40) looks so good! It was a pleasant surprise! You can't go wrong with this one (IMHO)! This would be a great intro guitar to say the least! The clear tones and the beautiful styling would be a huge motivator for any beginner! (worthy of advanced play as well!)

Its nice...

Its a nice guitar but the tuner is not good enough, the parts is not good, frets are not smooth...

Excellent piece

If you want a cool looking, built great, sounding cool guitar that doesn't require burning your pocket, especially if you are just learning how to play, or perhaps are struggling with finances at the moment - here it is! Beautifully built, stays great in tune for a long time, neck and fretboard built great. If you consider it being sold for such a good price, this guitar is definitely worth it and it's beyond my expectations.

Harley Benton, I love you.

The TE-40 TBK is simply wonderful. It looks fab with the gold hardware on the (just about see-through) black paintwork. The headstock matching the body is fab. The neck is the perfect fit for my hands, and the slightly shiny satin finish is a joy to play. I would say, that if the CITIES thing happens, then a Rosewood fret board would near enough make the guitar damn proud.

Although having twin humbuckers, it twangs as well as it growls, with very listenable tones to compliment the clearness and bite. I have a few HB's now and all I can say is that the guitars are getting better and better considering the sociable prices (please don't go the way of the big boys). This is a gorgeous guitar to rock out on, or lament with. Just received my little Joyo Jackman today, so time to rock.TB