Harley Benton SC-450Plus CB Vintage Series 3-stars Reviews

Cracked and chipped

The guitar plays very well and it sounds great. There are cracks where the head meets the neck and a chip at the tuners.

Reasonable value

I bought this as my first guitar, and while it has its disappointing shortcomings, overall its a good value guitar.

Pros:

- Surprisingly stable tuning, despite cheap tuning machines

- Great play-ability at medium action heights

- Smooth fret edges

Cons:

- Plastic nut "grabs" strings during tuning, causing "clink" sound

- Tuning machines have horrible dead spots

- General dead spots/unevenness in all adjustment screws, including bridge height and intonation adjustment screws.

- "Rise-in-tongue" above the 15th fret, causing strings to fret-out at low action heights

- Very thick poly finish, sticky on neck

- Fairly muddy humbuckers on 10-46 strings, but can be avoided with brighter amp/dialed down low-end.

Despite the negatives, I'm mostly happy with the guitar. I wish they'd had the SC-550 in stock when I'd ordered however. I feel like a lot of the cost-savings are the root of a lot of these problems I've had.

Overall Happy But Needs Attention

Guitar came with no damage in shipment to the USA, however the fret job was poor Frets were unpolished and were high in 12 spots. Don't hammer in the frets use a fret installer next time. The fret board was dirty, had two dented frets. (Stop using Nickel Frets), couple inlay edges were not filled in properly with glue or inlays not properly cut not very noticeable. Guitar input jack was cheap had to replace with Switchcraft. Ok this is a cheap guitar, if you're a serious player and like modding or fixing guitars to make them better this is the guitar for you.