Harley Benton HWY-25BKS Progressive Series Reviews

Amazing guitar

This guitar is a huge upgrade than my first guitar. It looks clean and has 24 frets. It’s really good for playing those riffs where you need to reach those high notes. The fret board is very smooth and feels great when sliding your hand up and down it when playing power chords.

Best For its price

Budget friendly amazing looking guitar

For the money? Wow

This thing is a metal machine, once you get it set up right ( and you might need a soldering iron as mine was buzzy because the ground wire solder had come loose) holy sh*t what a guitar for the price. I have guitars 4 or 5 times the price that can't compete with it. The pickups don't need replacing just put it through a metal zone pedal into an amp with the gain up high and it's instant metal. Mine had no fret edge problems, the frets were reasonably clean but you might want to go over them with a piece of 8000 grit sandpaper. I also replaced the tuners with locking ones, i mean the tuners it comes with are your bog standard cheap ones, they're not great but all in all you get a guitar you can gig with for less than 200 quid, bargain! For beginners I might recommend going into a guitar shop and getting them to set one up for you as it does require you to know your way around a guitar already, it needs a decent amount of set up but still, who can complain for that price?

Great guitar for very good price

Have had this guitar for over 6 months now and have decided to review it after being able to play for a while and get a good idea of how it plays and holds up. This is my first guitar but I have been playing the violin and been in a band for years so had a decent knowledge when beginning to learn. It arrived in good condition with only a small scratch on the headstock. It is very good quality and the matte black is very nice for the guitar. It is relatively heavy but this isn't too much of a problem and is not too bad considering the weight of many guitars out there. For the price, the body and neck are of a very high quality with a good whammy bar and knobs. The sound is incredible, especially for a guitar that is so cheap - very good for heavy metal music with great pickups. Overall, in my opinion one of the best beginner guitars for its price. A very cool looking, and good sounding cheap guitar.

Harley Benton HWY-25BKS Progressive Series

Pickups sound slightly muddy, the nut is pretty bad for tuning stability, tremolo bar is unusable because it makes the guitar instantly go off tune, and there is a little buzz on the lower frets of the E string, but other than these minor inconveniences that can be easily solved with a set up and maybe a replacement of the pickups, its very good value for what you pay for.

Great budget guitar

Good for beginners who wants to have a great metal looking guitar for a low price,this one is for you...the looks are nice,but be aware that matte finish on this gets shiny spots fast so be very careful when cleaning this guitar,don't put any polish...just wipe with a clean cloth.what I have watched on youtube about the neck is true...the neck of this is chunky to be fast playing....I end up using my CST-24 kit build than this.sound is ok,good for high gain distortion uses.

Mixed feelings but great in the end

Bought his guitar with the idea of having it tuned permanently in one tuning because of the price and didn't expect much.

Well I was wrong because this guitar is versatile and has a very nice grip which allows for varied play styles (and holds well on different tuning). The guitar looks very good and is light.

If you can, change the electronics for something more of quality (including pots). I ended up staying with the original pickups because somehow they have a decent sound. great purchase for the price and definitely a keeper for whatever reason

Best Guitar ever at this Money!

This is the best guitar that you can buy at this money! It has everything that you need for your road in guitar mastering!

Gorgeous

The best guitar ever made!

Great first guitar

amazing first guitar if you’re into rock and heavy metal. features are stunning and the inlay is a nice match. only problem is the quality of the volume knob which isn’t very responsive but for the price it’s amazing.

Very nice!

Price/performance guitar. Perfect for beginners!

price and quality

It seems to me that it is a very good guitar between price and quality, it has a good sound, excellent for beginners and mediums in the electric guitar world.

Very good guitar for beginners and intermediates

I bought this guitar because I wanted to start playing the electric guitar. When I found this guitar it was love at first sight.This is surely the finest guitar I have played as an intermediate (compared to the ones at my local guitar stores) also might I add this guitar is surprisingly cheap for a product such high quality.

My only complaint is the buzzing that you sometimes get on the bass chords.Overall, it’s no big problem you could just take it in at your nearest guitar technician and they’ll fix it.

On the other hand the paint job is great just needs check ups once in a while. Because of the black matte colour of course. The tremolo bar is also great you just have to get used to it.

good price for this quality

good for the price

it does what it needs! it works =)

It's horrible

Don't buy it it's horrible there's grounding issues the teem system is loud and screws keep falling out

Great Buy

This guitar is a seal for the money. A good solid build. My only qualm is that the tone is just a bit off. However, it can be made up by a good amp and peddle set-up.

Amazing Guitar

This is easily my new favorite guitar. It has a great feel and produces beautiful sound.

The best guitar for this price

I would say this is the best guitar -at this price- that I have played.

I had an issue with the strings but a small adjustment on the bridge should fix it (the customer service is the best tbh).

The distortion sound is mean and aggressive, while on clean it's not bad so it's fits exactly what I bought it for.

Good beginner guitar!

The guitar it self is good as a beginner/intermediate guitar, but a few things you have to keep in mind the knobs of the guitar are a bit low quality. There is a bit of a buzzing sound when playing with high distortion but it could be because of all the electronics around me. but overall great guitar for it's price.