Harley Benton TE-30 BE Standard Series 2-stars 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.

If you buy cheap, you'll probably buy twice

Not really happy

The copy I got was way too heavy and the tone knob did not really work. It looked great but I gave it away although I'm sure other copies are fine, I have the TE-20 which is almost the same model and it's a very decent guitar.