Harley Benton TE-30 BE Standard Series Reviews

Serious-problems with this product

After eagerly waiting for the shipment duration, I have just obtained this product today. I was very excited since there were thousands of positive feedback related to this product, how good is the finish, how good is the sound, etc.

I opened the shipment package with a very very big disappointment. There were a lot of markings all across the guitar body like somebody was grasping these areas with their hands while the guitar was painting. These markings seemed like hand-marks to me. Or, this guitar was waiting a lot of time in the depot and thus it resulted in these yellowing problems. You can clearly see these color changes in the final coating from the attached images. I assume this guitar is a B-stock guitar sold to me at full price. Otherwise, I can't understand how can be a guitar finish will be in this horrible, horrible condition. This is really frustrating.

Clearly, the product that I received is not in mint condition but is a B-stock. I don't even know if I can somehow repair this finishing problem, I think it obviously needs a re-finish all from scratch.

Great telecaster with great price

Ok, so

For 90 euros this guitar is great! I'm advanced player and it feels good in hands.

Main disandvantages:

Frets need polish job!

In general guitar needs a very good setup, frets are rough, string height not good, nut (in my opinion stock is ok) would be better new from bone, tuner are good quality, holds tune very well. Neck is kind of rough, but wet sand 2000 grit paper can easily fix problem. Pickups are, for this price, realy realy realy good! I mean, man, like great clean sound, even beather overdrive, classic rock, sound.

It came with guitar cable (I didn't even try it because it looks realy bad) and some tools for neck and bridge saddles adjustments.

Cons and pros

Pros: Good sound, feels good in hands, very low price for tele.

Cons (my opinion): White finish is so thin that you can see wood grains (honestly not much of a problem, I think it look great, but many people don't like that), setup is very very bad. 09 strings are awful!!!

Great budget tele

This is an excellent guitar for such a small amount of money. The price is great but if you're in the US remember that shipping bumps the cost. Decide for yourself if you'd rather have this guitar or a Squier affinity for the price, but I think this guitar edges out the affinity by a bit. The pickups are serviceable and the neck is alright but could use a little love. Personally, I will use this guitar as a starting point and upgrade the pickups and slap a fender neck on there. Does anyone know of a place to buy a replacement pickguard for this model?

Really good for the price

Really good for the price, decent pickups, played almost perfectly out of the box ( a single fret was buzzing, a friend had to sand it down).

Great value for the Money

I've had this guitar for a few years and play it every day. It has stood up well to the years and have not changed a thing on it other than strings. It's well made and would recommend to everyone.

Great tele guitar.

Only drawback is the weight

Great guitar

I took a chance on this, having bought a cheap Les Paul copy before online that turned out to be not very good at all.

I wanted a cheap Telecaster and read the reviews on this one, which were very good.

I have to say I'm very impressed with this guitar. It looks far more expensive than it actually is. Playable straight out of the box with a quick tune up. Action is a bit high but not a problem. Holds tune very well. I would highly recommend this guitar as it's great value.

Excellent value

A great entry to achieve a Tele sound for little money

Amazing guitar for price

Top quality (not reachable even for cheap fender guitars), nice authentic sound. It's slightly heavy cuz ash is not alder :D But you trade lightweight to rocky sound with focused hi-end.

beautiful guitar that plays well.

Unbelievable guitar for just pennies.

It is cheap for sure. But wait a minute, is it practical? O-h, yes! Even without upgrade, with those ceramic pickups it sounds like a real Tele. It was a surprise to have this guitar which I ordered for one of my students. Didn't want to part with it really. My student is happy by the way.

Not great not terrible

This is my first guitar, and in my opinion this one will do quite well for the first guitar. It sounds great, the frets are polished and won't scratch, but the build quality is lame. So if you want to buy a telecaster for your first guitar or just want to try this shape, this guitar is not the worst choice.

Great Telecaster

I wanted to try a telecaster , I usually play Ibanez RGs. For the price it is great value. The sound was surprisingly good. The colour ( cream ) is even better than the picture. It is heavy compared to an RG but that is not an issue. Other than the string and pickup height the guitar was perfectly adjusted.

great tool, everything came in one piece. Of the features, it turned out to be very heavy, harder than les paul

telecaster

plays very well sound great looks very good

Harley Benton TE-30 BE Standard Series

Love this guitar,it is way above it's pay grade.

All i can say is watch the video i did with this into a boutique valve amp.

https://youtu.be/asCA-m74QOo

Do a nice setup and this thing is amazing

First off, I bought 2 teles. A TE-70RW and this (te-30) let me just say that this one gets a bit more play time than my TE-70!!

This guitar is a wonderful modding platform for many mods and upgrades. I added a few things like a bone-nut, and some locking tuners. It plays fantastic. It is extremely resonant, the neck is PERFECT. Literally no dead frets that I could find and no sharp fret edges or anything! And this came to a cold part of the USA! I am in love with this guitar. It feels like it has a soul and is something I plan on keeping for the rest of my life. Should you get one? YES.

Even if this is your first guitar, I honestly can't think of anything better than this. It looks pretty, sounds pretty, plays pretty and is well priced. Even out of the box (just change the strings). Highly HIGHLY recommend!

Great guitar

For the money this guitar is pretty much unbeatable

This plays as good as any Tele fender

looks good , plays good, sounds, price very good. All in all its just a good guitar. ill be buying more HD. well done guys .

Great Buy

Cosmetically perfect. Workmanship solid with good set up out of the box. Great Tele sounds with good clean frets and sweet smooth neck. Great price and I'll buy another at these prices.