Harley Benton TE-52 NA Vintage Series 5-stars Reviews

great guitar

This is my first telecaster style guitar. I think it is great. Yes it is on the heavy side, but I don't mind it. I had to do some work on the action but to set it up the way I like it. overall it is great, I think I will change the saddle for brass.

Amazing guitar for the price

Amazing product for the price! A quick set-up and it is as good as any!

Great tele!

Ignoring the the weight of the guitar, this is really a great tele. Specially the neck pickup, sounds great!

Great guitar for that price

As I wrote in header, it is very nice guitar, I have played some other guitars in similar price and also much more expensive gear and I don't regret buying this benton. One disadvantage that I've found is that wrapping is very hard to remove from guitar body - it is almost impossible to do it without taking guitar into pieces.

There's no catch

After buying, selling & trading a bunch of guitars I decided to try this one and...Its just better than other guitars 4 times the price .

The finish is just terrific. Tuners,bridge,nut and etc all do their job quite perfectly. electronics are great. All in all a Great Telecaster , vintage twangy sound perfect for mellower genres.

As a begginers guitar I highly recommend because its so comfortable and easy to play.

As a guitar for Pros I highly recommend it due to the fact its easily moddable and ridiculously cheap.

Love it

After a lot of research and reading on the net I thought that I should buy myself a T-Style guitar and if I really liked it maybe consider upgrading it at a later date. From the majority of videos I watched it seemed that this model was generally well built and excellent value for money with a great sound if perhaps a little heavier than other T-style guitars.

Anyway when it arrived and I strummed my first few chords it was love at first play. I'm not a great guitarist, but I felt comfortable with this model. The action suited me and I loved the tones it offered me. I look forward to spending a lot of happy hours in the future getting more acquainted with it. The only tiny negative was a couple of small scratches on the scratch guard in transit. It was thoroughly padded and well packed, but the plastic of the scratch guard is perhaps not one of the toughest components in it.

I love the chrome hardware on it and it actually looks a lot more vibrant and alive in real life than in the pictures. Overall a very fine looking instrument that is a joy to play straight out of the box. For the price a very good investment indeed and I will definitely be buying myself a couple more Harley Bentons in future (although my wife may never forgive me when I do :) )

Brilliant value for money, love it to bits!

Good guitar for that price

IMHO, this guitar is much better then Squier and etc.

Sound is very-very good (for that price).

And the guitar resonates so good (because of the ash).

But the main disadvantage is the frets. Wear out very quickly.

Very useful guitar

My video review of this guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u981FGweGss

Best price/quality!

I think this model already a legend, as its build quality and sound it produces are so great! Love this one as it is, but I changed nut to Graphtech 5042 model

Harley Benton TE-52 NA Vintage Series

I absolutely love this guitar! Wasn't expecting much for the price ($149 US) but was more than pleasantly shocked at how well set-up and ready to play this guitar came straight out of the box. I expected to do mods but it's perfect for me the way it came. Love the solid ash body and maple neck and fret-board. The tuners all feel perfect as in not too tight and not too loose. The Roswell Alnico 5 pick ups sound great to my ears. Great job on this guitar! This blows all other similarly priced Teles out of the water for value and craftsmanship. Waiting now on the SC 450Plus LD I ordered and hoping for the same experience. I will be purchasing more Harley-Benton guitars from you for sure in the future! Thank you again for not being greedy and providing such great product and price point we can afford.

Great Guitar

For the money this is it. I did change tuners, bridge and went to 920 switch and pots but all in all this is a nice guitar.

Excellent guitar, Awesome tone!

I wanted something that sounded like a Telecaster. This does and more, It's a tone monster. Out of the box intonation, action etc were spot on. Unbelievable guitar for the ridiculously low price!"

Excellent product, beautiful and high quality

Fantastic Guitar

I love this guitar. The sound and build quality is outstanding at this price point. You really cannot go wrong with this purchase. The only issue I have if you even call it that is the weight. The guitar is a bit on the heavy side. About 10LBS. Other than that little gripe, I love it!!

A fabulous affordable Guitar

I am impressed. It is a great budget guitar. It has the things I expected from a telecaster. I will definitely buy another Harley Benton guitar

Great guitar for the price

Received today so had to write this. This guitar is fantastic, the quality of build and hardware is as good as guitars four times the price, unbelievable. The tuners, bridge, pick-ups are great. The neck is smooth with no fret sprouts, controls work smoothly and the ash body is superbly finished. The neck pocket is a superb fit and there is nothing loose on the guitar. The only thing I had to do was to tune it. I did not find it too heavy. If you want to mod it there are plenty of parts available, but I cannot see me changing anything as it is great straight out of the box. I recommend that if you want a Telecaster, you wont get one this good for the money.

100%

I had some real doubts regarding the possible condition/quality of the instrument or issues that may occur and affect it over the course of the delivery but was surprised to see that after thorough inspection and a bit of tweaking at the saddles and truss rod (just for string height, the intonation was spot on), this is a great instrument! The only part that I can say feels a bit cheap is the (acoustically) audible friction you hear when playing vibrato - could be that the frets need time to 'break in'. I say 'cheap' because aside from that you could tell me this guitar costs X4 what it did and I would easily believe it. Satin finish on the neck feels great and the pickups are good as well.

*Use

Home studio (not my first or second guitar, 19 years in the game), possibly some gigging - I would definitely consider this as a primary instrument for a gig as opposed to just a backup

*Pros

Price(obviously)

Sounds and feels good

Sturdy hardware

*Cons

Needs some setup out of the box

A bit of audible(acoustically, not when amped) chafing between strings and frets, possibly need to be 'broken in'

who needs a fende/squirer when you have this.....

bought this guitar as i read the reviews,

so...what do you expect from a telecaster?

thewood quality, the tone, the twang, the neck,

this guitar has it all, despite of its considerable weght, i m ahappy owner,

recommended to Novice as wellagigging musician

Price/Quality - WOW

Very happy with the price compared to quality. Great guitar, and fun to play.