Harley Benton HP-42 Signature TT Roasted

Best. Guitar. Ever. (probably not, but it's easily my favorite)

I own a limited number of guitars, such is my budget. I bought this shortly after it was released, I don't recall the price at the time. I do know that since its arrival I've put it to task on solid state amps and numerous modelers. It sounds great. Sure, the P90 hums but it's a single coil. Duh. The option of being out of phase and/or single coil on the humbucker? This thing is a tone variety master. I wish this guitar existed when I started playing, it solves a laundry list of problems by having simple hardware upgrades that make it just a superior product. Moreover, the Roswell pickups legit sound good. Absolutely would recommend to anyone, beginner or advanced. This is a great guitar.

Punches above and beyond.

This guitar resonates like crazy. The pick ups have to go, in favour of more grunt n groan. Beautiful neck lovely wood. Will be savage with a Tone Zone and some punchy p90 installed.

Exceptional quality

What a guitar! Fantastic build guitar. Neck is just brilliant and fret work is exceptional. After a quick setup guitar is really hard to beat under 1K. Guitar came setup up out from the box and fully playable so if you are not into doing a setup yourself it's very good right from the box. Very versatile pickups and sounds good but I will be changing these to Seymour Duncan's to have it truly phenomenal. nothing wrong with original pickups though just I feel that they could be better and this guitar is certainly worth putting an expensive set in to her.

Versatile quitar; good sounding and good looking; great value for money

I bought this guitar mainly for personal use. No gigs intended since playing guitar is only a hobby.

This is my second Harley Benton.

First was a T-Style kit I built with my son a few years ago. Good a DYI and for a beginner.

I was looking for a P90 equipped guitar and I came across Henning Pauly's signature model.

I liked besides the versatility - a bridge humbucker with single-coil option and a P90 neck pickup - the quality of the build and the components. And the story behind building it.

What I received exceeds my expectations. Sounds great - even for my (lack of) experience. And it looks much better than the pictures. Harley Benton products are no longer "cheap" but rather "affordable". Great products for their price range!

If I have to find a flow that was the action that was set a bit higher but other than this it was ready to go.

Going to buy again.

Most important is I got what was described, and speaking to customer service was a good experience. Price is perfect.

Love this guitar

I was going to write a long review but really I think all I need to say is that this guitar ticks all the boxes for me and I’d have to take some convincing to consider any of the more expensive brands in the future. The only minus for me is probably the humbucker, I don’t think it’s bad by any means, but there is maybe just that bit of edge lacking (probably exacerbated a bit by the fact the P90 sounds so good). Overall feel like I made a great choice.

For they money a steal

I was looking for something different and something that was versatile and this guitar sure delievers.

It has many options sound wise with coil spliting and also out of phase options and the pickups especially the P90 sounds very good. This is by no means a metal axe, the clean tones are lovely if you are into blues and funk, for rock the P90 and humbucker sounds great driven and gives you a lot of classic rock and punk rock/alternative rock vibes.The locking tuners are also a huge plus as this guitar when the strings are stretched will hold tune very well.

The fit and finish is good for this price point . There is very little to complain about,a few flaws here and there but for the price can be forgiven. The maple top and maple neck and fretboard feel and look wonderful, all I needed to do was adjust the intonation and it plays very well.

Overall this is a great guitar and I adore it, Harley Benton and Henning Pauly did a great job on this model and for the money the fit and finish, sound and features are insane

Great features with a few issues

This guitar looks fantastic and has incredible specifications. My favorite features are the neck and the P90. This is the first guitar I have owned with a roasted maple neck and I was really surprised by how slick it feels.

Unfortunately, I had issues with both the nut and the saddles. The original nut had a double trough in the G string slot that would cause the string to jump between troughs when bending the string which produced a horrible sound. In addition, the action at the nut was twice as high as your typical spec which caused intonation issues at the first three frets. To make matters worse, I had to replace the nut twice because I'm not exactly a luthier. I finally got the nut sorted out and realized I had a bad sitar sound coming from several strings. I added a graphtec string tree on the D and G strings because there was literally no break angle between the nut and tuners. The B string was a different issue. The sitar sound on the B string was caused by metal burrs on the saddle just behind the string break point.

After several months of fighting, It works!

Great Guitar!

This is a really good guitar. You get high end specs at a fraction of the cost. The roasted maple neck is super comfortable to play. The stainless steel frets are buttery smooth and well rounded at the edges. I love the push-push pot and the ability to go out of phase. The pickups sound great (especially the P90S). Great tuning stability. Strongly recommended.

very good

beautiful looking

plays very nicely.

great variety of sounds (with the p90 neck, humbucker bridge, and coil taps on both control knobs)

I've had this for 6 months and it is my most played guitar (also have gibson les paul, fender strat and others).

stays in tune well.

fretboard feels nice

bridge is great.

I can't honestly fault this guitar.