Harley Benton R-458MN WH Progressive Series 3-stars Reviews

Buyer beware

I bought this guitar knowing that I'd have to have the pickups and tuners replaced with higher quality ones, that is perfectly reasonable for this price point being the entire guitar is proprietary. However the guitar I received isn't even playable, there is several dead frets and a flat spot in the center of one of the fret wires in the middle of the neck. The package was immaculate, absolutely zero dents in the box so it wasn't something that happened during shipping, and there was super glue or something on a couple of the strings that wouldn't come off.

Good but postage issue

this guitar is beautiful and amazing for the price. I ordered to the uk (took about a week after it was in stock). The sound is ok for stock, the feel is amazing except for the fretboard, it feels a bit too rough when your doing bends or anything like that.

There was one tiny issue…. When it came i noticed the bridge humbucker had came not tightened high enough and upon closer inspection i found it had completely chipped off and the screw to tighten it was lost in postage. Stupid little mistake but hey.. mistakes happen. Couldve been a lot worse

All round a VERY nice guitar.

There are problems, but they can be solved

The quality of the guitar is not bad. Sound and noise are disgusting. On the guitar, you need to immediately change the paziziometers and re-solder the wires. Pickups work like parallel singles, not humbuckers, which is a bad decision. The strings are wrong, the 7th string needs 70 or more.

I didn't expect a lot from a cheap guitar, but I planned to play at least a little on it, but with such a sound it doesn't bring the slightest pleasure. My advice is to buy good electronics and re-solder correctly for humbuckers.