Harley Benton Slider II Lap Steel w/Stand 5-stars Reviews

Great value, well manufactured instrument. I have yet to master it, but it's fun trying

Great Lap Steel

A brilliant lap steel for staring out. Sturdy and compact with some really beautiful inlays. Currently on loan to a friend who's loving it!

Nice Lap Steel, shame about the strings.

Bought this Lap Steel as I needed to record some proper slide guitar. At £95 (plus £10 shipping to the Highlands of Scotland) I wasn’t expecting miracles. There is a cheaper one without a stand, but I really don’t have any worktop space in my home studio, so I went for the one with the stand. It means it is ready to go when I need to use it, without having to move things out of the way. Comes with a steel slide in a box, the aforementioned stand and a gig bag for the Lap Steel and a bag for the legs. These aren’t great, but will keep your stuff from getting scratched during transport.

Took it out of the boxes (very well packaged for transport), tuned it up and played along with a backing track. Now considering that this is less than £100/€100/$100, it was surprisingly good. The only let down with the entire experience was the strings, with the weight of my hand and the bar, it was putting the strings slightly higher than the “fretted” note. They are too thin, but as these are just on it to make it playable, that is not a bad point against the Lap Steel. With a change of strings to a much heavier gauge this will be much better. Sound wise, again let down by the strings, but the pickup seems reasonable, but in the future I will be putting in higher quality electrics.

Overall, this is a nice instrument, and would highly recommend this to anyone wanting to get into, or just curious about, Lap Steel guitar. At this price, what is stopping you…

does the job

Sound and construction is great for the price. ~Tuning is stable enough to use at gigs as well as pickup.

Quality and price

Hello Jim hear. Am absolutely impressed with the lap steel. Pick is strong. The sound quality is perfect for me. Fit and finish as expected highly quality product and the price well can't be beat. Thank you Harley Benton.

INSANE DEAL

Got this to start learning lap steel and with the right amp, it sounds just as good as other laps i've listened to.

Great value instrument

This sounds amazing through my amp, I’m just learning so this is a great way to get started.

Perfect for the price!

The only bad thing is tuning machines, but it works fine.

Slider lapsteel

Great instrument for the money.

Slider II Lap Steel w/Stand

I'm a pedal steel player, and there is no better (or cheaper) way to try out the lap steel world than with this thing!

Sounds nice, works well. Go for it!

Fantastic bargain for a quality instrument!

I wanted to try a lap steel guitar for a track I was recording and looked around at the market. I centred in on this Harley Benson and, as it was such a good price, went ahead and ordered it. I was not disappointed! It's great. Lovely sound, good quality components, nice looking. Highly recommended.

It's not a toy! ;)

You only need to change the strings, tuners and pickup.... Thats all..... In my case, I need to replace my hands additionally! ;)

PROS:

-Price!

-It's just a beautiful and convenient instrument!

-This is an inexpensive ticket to the world of lap steel guitar.

CONS: Not found.

Just what I needed at this time

Having hurt my thumb, it's hard to play guitar right now. This lap steel has been a blessing. Sounds great, easy to learn on, just brings joy into my life in this tough time. I can't imagine a better value for someone wanting to learn how to play slide guitar better.

Spendid buy

Splendid sound. Tonebar will not fit all hands, I prefer to use a slidebar. Two of the tuning heads have quite a strong slack, but won't lose tune if you don't touch it. Extremely difficult to tune, apart of that it is a great guitar.

Great value!

Just wanted to try these as a third instrument on stage as it had legs.

I was very happy with it and using it since then for live gigs (2 years)

Only I had to change the single coil to hot rail to match my other instruments? volumes.

Well done HB awesome instrument...

Great value

Budget instrument.cannot be faulted for the price.

Great product

Overwelming product, great sound with multieffect.

Playing now on it for about one month, stays in tune, no need for constant tuning... would be better with humbucker pickup for some songs, but great for precise and clear sound with single coil...

Overall great instrument if you want much more for your money...

Great shipping, without any scratches or malfunction.

HB Lap Steel

Very good for the price. Sound learners instrument.

A short review of the Harley Benton Slider II

I am really happy with this instrument so far as I certainly wasn`t expecting it to be so well built for the price!

The paint job was the only thing that seemed a bit rushed in it`s construction,hence 4 stars for quality,but it has stayed in tune since the day it arrived when I first tuned it.I recorded it and it sounds great.No problems with the electrics or anything loose,even the strings seem decent.The stand is stable enough and the tone bar has enough weight.

It does it`s job perfectly and I can see it giving me a lot of pleasure playing it.Well done Harley Benton!

For that money =)

This is not the best slide guitar out there, no doubt about it but for it's cost this is the best one out there =)

You just plug her in big muff or where ever it just sounds awesome.

Specially if plugged into tube amp

This guitar does what it should and does it well