Harley Benton R-457MN WH Fanfret

As my first 7 string fanfret i can confirm this is a great guitar if you want to try multiscales. I have small hands but it's not a big problem.You need to do some stretching on the first frets. When it came,it needed obviously a setup. The fretwork was not perfect because some frets were not in the same height but after setup it plays with a very low action. It's not the lightest instrument and the neck isn't the slimmest but you need some time to get used to it. I changed the tuning pegs to locking tuners and it's much easier to change strings. I haven't had any problems with the pickups, they're pretty good.. Palm muting takes some time too. Overall it's a great guitar for the price and i recommend it!

Great for someone just getting into multiscale guitars, but with a couple kinks.

If you're just getting into multiscale guitars this is 100% the way to go, it feels better than my slightly more expensive Ibanez but does require a little setup. However, to note, the pickups on this are absolutely horrible and an afront to everything holy. You will need to change them, and I am currently in the process of doing so, but you will need power tools. The height screws are glued to the bottom of the guitar and are incredibly difficult to get out without bending them and needing new screws and they're also really picky to what screwdriver you use. Over this, something that isn't that surprising with this guitar is that the pickups do need elevation from a spring, but you can harvest that from the original pickups and just use some spare foam (or even the one already there) for some support. It holds in tune great, I can literally leave it for days without tuning and when it comes to just playing and practicing there's no audible difference. Some of the tuners have gone loose, though. The body is nice and ergonomic, I'm really skinny though so I can't really comment on things such as the tummy dent- thing because I don't need much of it. The finish is a bit weak, though, as it chips away scary easy but I guess that just makes it easier to refinish.

Very nice product

During a year of using this guitar I found almost no flaws in it - comparing even with guitars that cost much more expensive, I can say that in some aspects this guitar is even superior to them, in general - the build quality is good, the only thing that confused me was the quality of the staves, they are not terrible, I just wish they were better. Overall, this is a great instrument, both in terms of playability and sound, which in skilful hands will be a great start in the world of 7-string guitars

Solid 7-String

This is a great 7-string for someone dipping their toe into 7-string playing for the first time and are apprehensive about spending crazy money for a guitar they may or may not like playing. Quality wise, it isn't perfect by any means, but for the price I genuinely do not believe that you will find better!

A great product.

The sound of this guitar can give a head start to many guitars for $ 5k. I am completely satisfied with the sound, shape and convenience. it works great, it is made without unnecessary details! Thanks!

Muddy chugs !!

Fast neck and sounds pretty bang on for the price

Played through a 6505

I cannot recommend, critical issue

I won't be covering the fretboard, body, finish and pickups in this review because these are the quality I expected from a ~200$ guitar.

My problem is with the way it handles strings (you will understand)

on both the .09 - .54 strings the guitar came with and a .10 - .56 I bought as a replacement the high E string snapped while tuning (I switch between Drop G and Drop A quite often) and the low B string just splits while playing, both of these phenomenons happen right at the nut, so I will assume that the nut is the issue.

Other than this ground-breaking issue, the guitar is decent (for 200$), but I can't recommend it.

I will not be returning it as it is my only and first electric guitar, but this has left me a bad opinion on Harley Benton and I will be more careful when buying from them. (I am still very much interested in the 30" baritone jazzmaster)

Starter

Definitely a starter 7 string guitar good construction ok sound, needs beter tuners, fretwork was spot on

string action is great out of the box

no buzzing or dead notes.

fret ends felt fine not so smooth but not awfully sharp as i’ve read others complain of.

the switch, input jack, volume and tone knobs all feel solid.

tuners don’t hold well and the pickups aren’t good but they’re usable.

This is a great gift idea for young or aspiring guitar player that likes the looks of multiscale or low tuning capabilities of a seven string they can start with.

A little bit noisy and muddy, but check the price

Great guitar for this price. The pickups are a little bit muddy and don't have much gain compared to Schecter Omen-8 stocks. Also, I guess that shielding is not super good, the guitar produces unwanted noise that is hard to deal with even with the noise gate. It doesn't have a rich clean tone as well, but with some studio magic, you can receive something well sounding.

Assembled pretty well. No sharp ends, but strings are ringing out of the box.

A great guitar for that price!