Harley Benton SC-450 P90 GT Classic Series Reviews

This is amazing guitar or the price mine arrived at my house yesterday and I can’t put it

Down great Harley Benton I’ll be buying more

Surpassed my expectations!

My first Harley Benton. I assumed I would need to have this guitar set-up. I was pleasantly surprised to find the guitar was very playable out of the box. All that was left was to put a Bigsby on it...

My hands have been sore ever since.

The sound is great

I bought this guitar for everyday use.

I wanted a guitar with p-90's pickups. In order to get that "Nowhere Man" Beatles sound. And I have to say that the sound is totally achieved, even without the hollow body of the as well "made in China" Epiphone Casino. At a third of the price.

The sound is great. The playability is algo great. The build quality is okey.

Obviously doesn't comes with premium hardware, but everything works.

The only problem are the tuners. Goes out of tune very quickly. But that is easy and cheap to replace.

I hope this helps, my best to you.

Love it !

Great guitar, definitely worth the money.

Great Tone

This guitar has ended to become one of my favorites. Great tone and playability. I just wish it could be just a little mellower in tone, that would make this guitar a 5 STAR.

What a surprise!

The set-up was spot on. Action is low, and intonation almost perfect. It plays like a dream, and the P-90's sound terrific.

The only upgrade, was Gotoh locking tuners, only because I love locking tuners.

not perfect but good enough

pretty usable instrument overall, but has issues for sure (at least mine does).

pros:

-the blackwood fretboard is beautiful

-sounds great and feels good to play for the most part

cons

-lots of finish flaws - LOTS of them. overall a pretty sloppy paint job, with some small metallic bits and unevenness of the gold finish, the binding could be done better.

-the neck is pretty much perfect, but mine has a high 1st fret which makes it buzzy on all 6 strings, but thankfully the other frets are leveled properly and allow for low action and great playability

-a flimsy pickup switch

-high 1st fret action on some strings

I'm happy with the purchase because with a little help its a perfectly usable studio tool. Still I wish it was done with a little more attention to the details. It can be remedied with a good setup though

Great Value!

I have an Epiphone Custom Pro but I enjoy playing the HB more.

Not impressed but ok for the price

I follow the hype of hb guitars and try one with specs I didn't have in my collection ( gold top, p90s ).

I know that in this price range you cannot simply have high expectation but I read so many good commends for all hb guitars and wanted to try one.

I receive my guitar and the first that I notice was the dots and scratches underneath the gold finish, you cannot feel it with your hand but is visible enough.

Fret buzz is something you might expect, mine needs fretwork, you simply can't play with so much buzz.

Parts is ok except the pickup selector that is really awful.

I like that knobs respond very well, also I surprised by the neck pickup, it has genuine p90 sound, I can't say good words for bridge pickup, is very bright and need tone control handling constantly.

The Blackwood fretboard is beautiful as it look like ebony wood and it seems to be more 'expensive' in the eye.

So if you want a budget friendly guitar and you can do all the work it needs by yourself its a good choice. But don't have a big expectation, it cannot play out of the box and it has minor issues.

Also if you like light guitar is not for you, mine weights 4.6 kg!!

The price is correct for the guitar and for that reason I choose not to return the guitar back and keep it for project guitar.

more than expected

Spectacular guitar, great sounds and playability, highly recommend a collections of these beauties

Next it will be a Paisley Telecaster

Speed delivery not a problem

Really pleased with it, I took a chance since this is my first Harley Benton but the value package proposed here is amazing, pickups sounds great, neck feels smooth and the finish is top notch.

I really wanted a gold top LP style guitar with P90s and this is a bargain if you're looking at something similar.

The only ding I can find on this guitar is the pickup select is kinda wobbly and not straight but I'll just replace it, not a huge deal but that's literally the only fault I could find with this guitar.

Would highly recommend!

Quite nice

I'm a beginner and this is my second electric guitar. I mainly bought it because i wanted to try P90 pickups and this guitar is crazy cheap.

The guitar arrived in mint condition after it was in shipping for more then two months, only a quite tune up was required.

I mostly play clean tones and it sounds great, at least in my ears.

The few issues i have with it are minor but worth mentioning. It feels a little plasticity to me. More precisely the fretboard and the glossy neck. In addition its no very resonant when unplugged, compared to my sterling sub 3.

lastly the scratch cover is feels really cheap.

All in all I'm happy with it. it feels nice to play and i enjoy the sounds i can get out of it.

Gold Top Axe

I love the guitar I had to work on the set up but its been my experience you always do ya know you have to customize it for yourself. I'm very happy! No worries

Budgetary Gibson Les Paul Standard '50s Goldtop P90

I really love Les Paul and I have Gibson LP Traditional Pro II & Gibson LP Elegant Custom Shop. At the moment there is no way to take the original Gibson with the P90 and I paid attention to Harley Benton, since I already have one of them - Harley Benton TE-80 NT Deluxe Series and I am very pleased with him.

Workmanship is excellent. The guitar came fully tuned. I bought this guitar for playing rock and roll, rockabilly and blues. And she copes with it perfectly.

I recommend buying a Harley Benton guitar. Despite the fact that I have Gibson, PRS, Tom Anderson, I’m probably still buying a couple more Harley Benton - SG, Fusion or BigTone Trem.

January 2020

It took exactly one week for the guitar to arrive at my doorstep in ireland. The finish is beautiful and perfect with the back and sides looking more brown than they do in the pictures. Strings ere not d'addario as others said they were. Some frets had lifted and could not be pushed back down from 14th fret upwards, very dissapointing how this even passed quality control, after 3 nights of fret leveling, polishing and rewiring for independant volume controls and phase reversal, this guitar has began to play the way id like, the neck pickup is a great sound, the weight is good the neck size is good, its really a good guitar just a shame about those messy frets

Excellent!

Great value for money. I use this for playing gigs.

The P-90s are doing their job.

A small setup and the guitar was perfect.

Can definitely recommend.

A real beauty

This guitar is a real surprise to me, for a ridiculously low price you get a lot of guitar ! Is it as good as my 2015 Gibson Les Paul Traditional? No, it is not, but that's no surprise... but it comes very close in terms of look, feel and sound... for a fraction of the price (Gibson price divided by 13 !!!). This is a great rock machine ;-)

Don't hesitate, buy it and let it rock !

Good buy

Easy to play and well finished. Pickups are good, but really high output. It's a guitar to play rock. Tuners are ok, but I'am no sure about their reliability. Overall, a very good guitar

Amazing for the price

This is another great example of an affordable guitar that is totally playable right out of the box. The build quality is very good considering the price, obviously cost saving features are visible on the finish and overall construction but none of these affect tone, playability or instrument reliability.

The electronics are decent, though the P90s, at 9,7 K Ohm for bridge and 7,72 for Neck, are a bit on the hot side. Anyway this is the first point most people upgrade the guitar.

The neck is very comfortable, and the fretwork very good. It stays in tune like my LP Standard USA, no complaints on that.

Overall, a more than decent instrument at an incredible price.

まず、この値段でありえないクオリ

まだ、届いて6日目だけど、音の良さはよくわかるかな。

ギターを長年やってきている50代中盤のおっさんです。Ibanez Jcutomやゼマイティスなどのハイエンド系ギターを多数コレクションしています。

カスタムショップ製のゼマイティスの音はいまいちでしたが、このHarley Bentonのギターは音いいです。ただ、音の抜けはどうなんだろう。

もうちょいあってもいいのかもだけど、レスポール系のギターの音って長いこと聞いてなかったというか、弾いてなくて今回購入したところもあるけど、ゼマイティスに比較してもそう見劣りする音ではないですね。フレットの処理とかもほとんど完璧でこの値段からすると本当に考えられないくらいの質の高さなのかも