Harley Benton R-458FFB Roasted Fanfret 5-stars Reviews

Fantastic value, gorgeous finish

This guitar looks incredible, and goes from blue to green to purple depending on how the light shines on it. It plays amazing and the fanned frets didn't take much getting used to before they felt natural. No sharp frets or quality issues. My only complaint is that the strings the guitar shipped with were too loose for standard F# tuning and I replaced them with 8 string Ernie Ball Regular Slinky and the tension is great. The pickups don't sound the best but considering good quality pickups cost more than this guitar alone that is understandable. An EQ can fix any tonal issues of the pickups.

Great for the price!

This is unbelievably good for the price.

Overall it's really playable with very minor cosmetic issues. Having guitar costing 4x this price, I can achieve same results on this one.

Things to consider:

The 'muddiness' of the tone that some people complain about and blame pickups - if you plug this guitar to amp set for 6 string - yeah it sounds crappy. If you have a setup dialed in for handling those 8 string low tones - it sounds great!

Color - it is mostly dark green, with slight reflections of violet, nothing crazy here!

Neck - mine's color is lighter than on the pictures

Frets - well done, nothing pointy on the sides of fretboard. They were kind of 'gritty' when bending in the beggining but with some playing they got smooth.

Minor visual quality issues - those are VERY MINOR, you have to look for them and probably could find on more expensive guitars.

surprisingly good for the price

very comfortable, nice touch & fast fretboard, definitely worth the price, doesnt have locking tuners but keeps the afination very well, and also the paint finish is very beautiful

Incredible construction

It came perfectly and on time. At first, one can think that it lacks on protection but then you realize that there is another box inside.

The neck is so smooth with no fretsprout nor protuberances, it's flawless and plays like a dream. The body also does not present any mark on it.

On the other hand, the pickups are to mellow and lacks of power in general. Maybe they are not well wired.

It's a great instrument and a perfect platform to customize it. :)