Harley Benton SC-1000 WH Progressive Line 4-stars Reviews

Great price/performance!

for beginner and intermediate level.. active pickups literally roar. Good job HB!

Found my daily/gig guitar

I was a bit worried that I would get a low-quality guitar because of how cheap this guitar is but I was wrong. The guitar arrived in great shape, with no sharp edge frets, the neck is straight and the paint job is immaculate. Plugged it into my amp and everything worked. Changed strings and polished the frets and man this guitar is great. I've been using it daily and as my gig guitar.

VERY Surprising

I bought this guitar with no expectations. I was looking for an inexspensive moderately well built guitar for my students. What I received was an inexpesive VERY well built, aesthetically pleasing guitar. Made from all of the same materials as my high dollar guitars (Gibson/Wylde Audio/Jackson etc...). The EMG style pickups are a little noisy but sound okay otherwise. This is an excellent "first guitar" for beginners. They will look forward to practice instead of letting it sit in the corner collecting dust. For the advanced/expert guitarists this is a nice guitar to take along without worrying about wear and tear on your Gibson's or Epiphone's. I was happy with the small amount of setup out of the box.

Decent

In general I am quite happy with this guitar, it looks great and feels like a more expensive guitar.

Don't get me wrong, this guitar looks stunning but there are some minor visual flaws (coloring and binding on the edges looks to be a bit rushed). But this is on the sides and places where regular eyes don't seem them; also nothing is visible or looking bad from a step away. I would simply bring this on stage on how it looks.

The pickups and pots need to be changed. While it sounds OK for heavier stuff like metal (and I was surprised), I will be changing the electronics and pickups for proper EMG. There is just too much gain so you would need to dial this down A LOT, it's not possible to get any proper clean sounds from it like some other reviewers have also stated, even with extensive tweaking.

On the positive side, sustain is massive and it will ring out for ages.

Neck feels amazing, action was good from initial setup but there are 1-2 dead notes higher up on the neck. Needs proper setup after receiving and most likely needs some work. But for this price it is expected.

Overall, I would reccommend this if you are looking for a guitar with such looks - for the money you pay it's worth it and the neck is pretty decent. Don't simply expect that this is something that you can play right out of the box, as it most likely needs additional work. Great for a hobby project. Great for it's money, but not perfect and fully playable as is.

Overall good guitar

Beautiful finish, beautiful colour and hardware seems great too. Only problem (if you can call it that) is that the pickups are very hot and can easily make your clean tone a bit distorted unless you turn the volume on the guitar down. Overall I think it is fantastic for the price. I love this guitar!

great mod platform.

Loved just about everything about it, exept the bridge pickup.

ordered a set of emg 81/85 to put in it but ended up just using the 81 in the bridge and kept the neck pickup.

loved it so much that even tho it came to me with a pretty bad break in the top of the headstock i didnt want to return it. so i kept it and played it

highly recomended

Great guitar for the price

Good solid and fun to play guitar. My expectations were pretty low when I bought it as I was fully expecting to have to replace some components. To my pleasure, not much was needing to be done.

Pros:

- Looks great

- Sounds great

- Plays great

- No noticeable blemishes

Cons:

- Struggles to stay in tune... still working through that. I may end up replacing the tuners and nut... but i'm purposely taking my time in modifying it

- There were some pretty sharp fret edges - however, some fine grit steel wool solved that problem with just a few strokes.

Will definitely be purchasing some more Harley Benton equipment as I expand my collection.

Damn good for the price

For the price, it really cant get much better. The perfect Metal heads guitar for beginners, or for modders looking for a decent platform to try different active pickups on. Light flaking of the lacquer in certain areas, but nothing that makes it unplayable. a solid purchase imo

Not a bad little guitar for the price

Pros:

- Nice finish, although more white than antique white

- insane high output pickups (this is also a con)

- nice action

- great value!

Cons:

- insane high output pickups (you won't get a clean tone without a fight)

There is no way to dial back this monster, so as long as you're not looking to be able to dial it back a little, and you're ok with its relentless output.. you'll enjoy this!

you get a lot of bang for your buck with this guitar, and it's very good looking too! if I had to nitpick I'd wonder how my guitars's frets and fret board passed inspection as the frets needed polishing and the fret board needed some cleaning and oiling, nothing major and it doesn't effect it much but it shouldn't be an issue with a new guitar.

Surprisingly good for it’s price

I know getting cheap guitars can be a shot in the dark, Ive heard plenty of stories, so I wasn’t expecting anything incredible. And I was pleasantly surprised. The guitar not only looks gorgeous, it also sounds really good.

I’m no master on guitars, I know a few things and I’d say for a beginner this would be pretty great. I think one thing to notice would be the weight of it. The body is mahogany, which makes it heavy even for an electric. And the active pickups are a bit noisy, but I wouldn’t say that’s a reason not to buy it. The guitar really does sound great. The tuners also hold really well which was another pleasant surprise.

Definitely recommend it if you’re getting into playing.

Best Eclipse for the price

Simply the best lespaully guitar for active pickup sound. 24 frets, short scale and comfortable modern C neck profile are the perfect choice for make some Thrash, Speed or Black metal riffs. It is full mahogany built and long tenon neck set. In result it has a beautiful sustain and resonation in your hands.

But there are some cons in my guitar too. At first, the HBZ active pickups has a bit noise, not critical, but with compressor it will be annoying thing,,, At second, frets are not polished and you won't be able to play high bands and deep vibratos without polishing fret's tops.

If you can waste some time to fix that cons, you have got a perfect guitar for playing heavy riffs)))

not the best sound but

not the greatest guitar around, but for the money maybe it is. i use it primarly to compose (am a bass player) and needed a cheap guitar to have around just in case. totally worth it

How the hell is it this cheap???

Living in Australia everything is ridiculously expensive in the gear world. When I purchased this I had no idea what to expect, It was mindblowing plugging it in and playing, it felt better than most epiphones and being around half the price of them, it felt perfect and looks incredible and unique. The only issue is a bit of a sharp nut but that's nothing a small file can fix, GET THESE GUITARS

Good but could be so much better.

Slightly disappointed as it is not as good as my Harley Benton Fretless Bass in terms of build quality. The finish is off in several areas and the fretboard required lots of oil to bring it back to life. The tuners are also a bit of a weak link as there is a lot of play in them before hitting the sweet spot. However despite this for the money its is exceptionally good value, and would compare well with other brands at twice the price.

Amazing guitar for the money

I got this guitar just for the sake of having a back up for my back up LTD (i know...) and it came out to be great for the money i spent. The neck has a Les Paul Custom feel to it, it is quite chunky but it feels good. The sound is very well balanced and it stays in tune well. The only negative were a few cosmetic issues which for the price are a non factor.

All in all, the guitar is solid, and i highly recommend it for anyone who wants to start playing guitar and do not think that it is not as good as more expensive brands just because it says "Harley Benton" on the headstock.

Great guitar for the price

First off let me start by saying you are not going to get a guitar that is completely perfect aesthetically at this price point e.g details in regards to binding and general flaws in paint around the set neck.

With this out the way, this guitar is phenomenal for the price, you get a solid mahogany body with a set neck and active pickups for under £130 which is ridiculous in itself.

I will say the hardware is horrendously bad, the tuners are imprecise and don't hold tuning well, the bridge and tailpiece posts are not completely in the archtop body. However if you bear this in mind, you can buy some cheap locking tuners and a Korean made bridge which will work fine. I spent £50 on these upgrades and now it holds tuning brilliantly. I also had a problem with the neck volume pot, it just doesn't work. I haven't fixed it and I don't intend to because I don't need volume controls. 3 of the frets are slightly too high but if you play with heavy distortion minor fret buzz is not a problem.

On the positive side, it sounds amazing for metal and hard rock. It sustains incredibly well. Its solid mahogany as far as I can gather from the weight. The action is incredibly low too.

I would not hesitate to recommend this guitar to any player of any level provided that you can change a bridge and tuners which require a screwdriver and nutdriver. Its amazing for the price so you can't really go too far wrong. It is a great looming and more importantly an amazing sounding guitar