Harley Benton R-458 BK Progressiv Series 5-stars Reviews

Excellent guitar!

After looking through numerous reviews for this product I decided to commit and pick one up, have to say I am incredibly happy with this, the guitar is incredibly well made, although the pickups as others have said are a little hot, still sounds good!

The guitar arrived in 3 days to the UK, very fast delivery and the tracking was in depth. Only slight concern is that the headstock looks like it has had a small knock, but this is not noticeable face on. For the price I would highly recommend this as if you want to take a step into 8 string guitars this is definitely value for money!

I wanted a 8-string - I've got an 8-string

Well this guitar is pretty cheap, but for these money you get pretty much. Everything is satisfying. Only thing is that picks' change is vital. New picks will make the guitar just perfect for these money. I guess I've fell in love with it. Hope, my wife won't deport me and my guitars to live in the streets...

I've been using this guitar for quite a while now and it's a great one for the value you pay. I replaced the pickups with dimarzio ionizers because the original were crap, now i have a lot of fun with it, i'm even recording songs of my album with it.

Finish is great, and the neck is straight. Needed a setup to be able to set the action to my liking. The body is actually very resonant acoustically.

Never seen a guitar of this price range holding the tuning so well.

But be carefull switching the pickups and expect to fill the pickup holes with something like pickup rings if you buy passive, the cavities are bigger than normal, probably the size of active pickups like EMG or SD-

If you want to check how it sounds check my instagram i have several videos there, give me a shootout if you came from here! :)

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For this price, perfect.

Straight out the box it was in great condition and worked perfectly.

The only negatives would be that the switch feels cheap (but works perfectly.) Secondly, the neck pickup is very wooly and lacks definition. Any sort of distortion demanded the bridge pickup... but at this price I'm really splitting hairs.

Great guitar

Great guitar for the price! Neck is very comfortable (a bit hard to access to higher frets, but one can get used to it). Sound is good for metar, but there is a lack of clarity when playing chords. Keep in mind that body made of basswood so guitar is a bit heavy.

The Eighth Wonder !!

A great guitar. My first 8-string and i am impressed, Good construction, excellent set-up and very comfortable to play. It was recommended to tune it a semi-tone lower than the conventional tuning, but for now i have decided to be conventional. So i have a 6-string with a low-B and F#. It is effectively two guitars in one. Playing Bass lines. melodies and chords on one instrument. Tonally it has a lot of variety, deep lows and shimmering highs. Unplugged it has a beautiful acoustic tone, very clear definition. The neck, though wide, is very comfortable, with fret makings placed along the edge rather than centrally on the fretboard (a minor issue). The scale length is shorter than usual 8-strings, but this is a wonderful instrument. I only wish it came in more colours!!

Perfect to take confidence with 8 string

All this guitar needs to be perfect is a pickups swap and a set of locking tuners. Scale is short (25.5) but it won't be a problem if you stay in standard tuning. I put an arranged by me 08-11-14-19-28w-38-54-70 set of string on it and I have no problem at all with string tension. I also managed to obtain perfect intonation of octaves, you won't have problem pushing saddles back, on the contrary I had to put string saddles for the first two highest strings all the way forward. Truss rod it's perfectly adjustable and now I have low action with no string buzzing, frets are well rounded and polished with no sharp edges, neck is slim and comfy.

But pickups sound awful, you can use them at home for practicing but swapping them as soon as possible is mandatory. Tuners are not that bad but to have a perfect professional instrument I would change that too.

Finish has some minor flaw (little scratch on neck joint, and black paint mark on the neck). Best bangg for the buck for sure!

Great!

I bought one of these and I was going to change the pick-ups but I didn't. The pick-ups are surprisingly good for the price. I now own 2 of these (of one which will be having a pair of EMG808's) and I don't regret it one bit. They look and play AMAZING! Not many people believe the price that I paid for it. The quality of these are absolutely BRILLIANT for the money.

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A great guitar for stopping burglars!

So back in April.

I was chilling, watching a YouTube video and some guy calls to my house by ringing the doorbell.

So being the lazy mofo I am, I ignore the repeat ringing.

A few moments pass and I hear a huge crash from a window being smashed downstairs

I quickly realise that my house is being broken into and need to get ready to deal with it.

Looking around my room to procure an item I could use to defend myself with I had to opt to picking a guitar.

The guitar I chose was the Harley Benton 8 string guitar.

(Harley Benton R-458 BK Progressiv Series)

Armed with that beast, I charge downstairs and encounter the burglar breaking and entering.

At this point there's glass all over the floor and the burglar is making his way into the house.

Holding the 8 string guitar by the headstock I approach him and tell to get the F out.

The burglar threatened cut to me with a box cutter so bashed him across the head with 8 string!

He hit the ground like a sack of shit but he quickly got to his feet before I hit him again and jumped back out through the window and took off running!

I tried to cut him off by running out the front door but it was locked.

I ran back upstairs grabbed my keys and saw from my bedroom window

that he was getting away.

So instead of going downstairs and out the front door, I jump from the second story window still with the 8 string in hand!

At that moment the burglar looked back while I was mid free fall and look of horror on his face was priceless.

At that point he knew he was F'd!

So he took off running for his life down the street while I charged after him wielding the HB 8 string body raised overhead ready to whack him with it!

I managed to close the distance and I gave him a belt of the guitar across the head and temporarily stun him.

I got infront of him and that this point he brandishes his stanley blade knife and begins slashing at me with it!

Luckily I was able to maintain distance and parry all his attacks by jabbing him in the face repeatedly with the guitar.

Two minutes of knife/guitar duelling we find ourselves out in the middle of the road on a roundabout and all traffic has come to a halt as we continued fighting!

After many well placed strikes the burglar's head was beginning to look like 'Sloth' from 'The Goonies' movie.

Realising that I wasn't gonna give up the burglar then tried to make a get away by hijacking an articulated lorry which resulted in him getting punched straight in the face and falling out of the lorry cab!

He then proceeded to get into another car and threaten the driver telling them to drive.

My heart sank as I thought he was gonna get away but I just couldn't let that piece of shit get away with it, so I chased after the car in what would have looked like a low budget Terminator 2 chase scene!

Somehow I managed to keep up with the car and see where it was going!

The driver had pulled over and the scumbag got out and planned to hide in a barber shop to which he was quickly escorted off the premises because he had a head on him like a buckled mattress.

I ran into them and ask the to call the guards.

Meanwhile the moron went into a neighbouring café and sat down (I think that was the concussion beginning to set in!)

At this stage I had enough and I left the guitar outside and I went in and disarmed and pinned him in the café as staff and customers looked on in confusion but I calmly explained to everyone once I had in an anaconda choke.

The guards appeared in no time and arrested him and put him into the back of the car.

The moral of the story is:

Don't bring a knife to a guitar fight.

A Harley Benton guitar is a great guitar!!

My first 8 string

Received my Harley Benton 8 string today.... Can't believe what you get for your money,,,, the guitar is awesome value!!!! Plays and sounds great straight out of the box..... It feels and looks a good quality guitar.... I was only after a cheap guitar just to see if I would like 8 strings and never would have thought the guitar was going to be so amazing.... The neck feels great with great frets....no buzzing anywhere!!.. Definitely buy with confidence.....it's a lot of guitar for just over £100.... Thumbs up,,, has to have 5 stars for that price alone!!!

best kept secret yet

this guitar is amazing. I keep thinking about the price and,what value. I wanted an 8 string out of curiosity and didn't expect lot of guitar for the money'How wrong I was the build quality is five star, you have to try it to believe it. fingerboard is just excellent and it plays on and makes you play it. the range of sounds it can produce, from heavy metal to Jazz to rock, from a Gibson to a strat ,honest it is so complete, only downside I no out of phase facility, but that's about all. Just get one you won't be disappointed.