Harley Benton R-458MN WH Fanfret Reviews

Good product for a good price

I bought it just to try the 8 string. And I wasn't disappointed. It's a great instrument for it's price.

Pros:

- fan fret

- 8 string

- very good built quality

Cons:

- pickups (overall ok on the low strings, poor volume on high strings)

- frets could use some work on the sides

And yes... It does :)

Needs a a little touch

I like the way it feels, and the pickups sound great when I play clean. Metal sounds a bit muddy, but for the price of this guitar you can't be picky!

8 string for everyone

Thats fn incredible guitar. This guitar is much cheaper than competitors.

Guitar have two problems. Porblem is in pickups and in machine heads/ But for this price that`s all problems that i have. Woodworking is exellent, painting is beautifull, not stain frets.

i guess, if you want to upgrade this guitar, then it will come out much cheaper than buying another one

Excellent guitar

Excellent guitar, especially when you consider the price. I've read people complain about the pickups in the past, but my guitar sounds solid and it needed very little adjustment after making the trip from overseas. Very happy with my purchase, may have to consider more Harley Benton guitars in the future.

Love it!

Was a little scared when it showed up with a puncture that managed to go through both boxes but the guitar was clean with no damage. Amazingly enough it was pretty close to in tune! Would definitely buy from these guys again and for what I payed, I'm pretty impressed. I feel like the pickups could be a little better but for what they are, they work. The tuning pegs are decent and I plan on replacing them at a later point but that's not really a big deal. Overall a very nice guitar!

Excellent quality for the price

I wanted to explore the option of using an 8 string and opted to purchase this one as it wasn't too costly, I had read a lot of reviews and watched many clips before buying and was impressed but was even more impressed when it turned up at my door.

The build quality is fantastic, some reviews claim that their's arrived with missing paint or various other marks but mine has none of these. The frets were nice and smooth and the guitar was set up perfectly out of the box (albeit tuned half a step down) however the nut was quite sharp on the corner on the treble end.

The pickups aren't amazing, but this is a £136 guitar and taking that into consideration, there are guitars costing 3x as much that sound half as good out there.

Very impressed, and would purchase again if anything happened to this one. Would recommend to anyone wanting to try out an ER guitar.

Super cheap, but requires a little work

This guitar is my intro to extended range guitars, i have never played more than a six string. Fan frets are really easy to get used to.

The guitar looks beautiful from afar, but the attention to details is a little lacking.

Finish

You can see the scratch marks from the sanding under the finish and the paint is missing in the hole for the pickup selector. The finish of the neck is a nice satin, feels really good in the hands. The profile of the neck is fairly rectangular with prominent "shoulders".

The fret ends are dressed decently, but the levelling is not very well done and the frets are not recrowned and polished, so there is some fret buzz, intonation is a tiny bit off and the rough surface of the frets makes bends feel awkward. The nut is quite terrible, I will definitely change it.

The pickups are a bit muddy, but that was no surprise and they can easily be changed.

Overall it's a nice intro to extended range guitars, but only if you are capable of tweaking some things and setting the guitar up properly. For the price it's definitely worth it.

Great base for a mod project.

Experimenting with 8 String

(All feedback is after a week of owning/playing this guitar)

So I had been waiting to get one of these for some time and once I finally got my hands on one, it has not disappointed. I predominantly play Bass but write on 6 string guitar alot and decided to expand my horizons and try out an 8 string to write different genres and styles, and this edition from Harley Benton is (in my opinion) a great place to start if you're wanting an 8 String without the price tag.

The feel of the instrument is solid, well built and to be honest, alot nicer of a fit and finish than i was expecting for its price tag.

The tone of the guitar is again solid for the price of it, and might be due to only having a VOX VT60+ to play it through but I'm getting some solid Metal/Djent tones from this instrument. I will probably install some "higher end" 8 string pick ups in time but the stock ones are more than enough for anyone needing a decent 8 string tone.

Would recommend to anyone needing a starter 8 string!