Harley Benton Slider II Vintage Series Reviews

Absolutely astounded by the quality of this instrument for the price. The only thing that I would recommend is to upgrade the strings.

Best entry lapsteel

It does the job and use it sometimes for western cinematic type music. The single coil is crisp but amazingly the tone and volume knobs work like a high-end instrument and I use it for fine adjusting the sound. No issues so far. Maybe the design of the headstock is bad, because strings touch the lower inner part. Overall is good

Good Entry Level Slide Guitar

Pros: Cheap, easy to set up. Light but robust.

Cons: Slight ground hum, the silver screws on the fret board can be confuse with the fret markers (ideally, they need to Matt Black)

Great intro to lap steel

Decent make,stays in tune well.

Surprisingly good pick up clean and when you tweek some effects eq overdriven sounds are thick and clear! May benefit from thicker strings but those provided are reasonable quality.

Great for me

I've wanted to go get a lap steel for a while, I already play slide on a regular guitar and didn't want to pay a bucket full of money for something that I might not use a lot. The sound is amazing, it feels great to play and as a beginner to lap steel it is perfect for me and the price is amazing.

Good entry level instrument

Great introduction to slider guitars. The main con is tuners, they are just awful. After I changed these, tuning stability became much better. Also put Humbucker instead of SIngle coilm so no more hum.

But for the prise it is a steal, even with all the adjustments it's very affordable.

Lap Steel

Just had to put on La Bella strings and it sounds awesome 🤩

Great beginner lap steel

This is great value for money and it sounds fine. I've played guitar for decades so this is a great starting point for me. A few cons: The strings that come with it are terrible. They're so light that I could tune it to open A, and by that I might like barring an A chord on the fifth fret of a guitar. Very high, so new strings are a must, especially if you want to use C6 tuning, the included strings will not do that. The tuning pegs are a bit strange, I swear they're hollow inside so you can lose the end of the string in there which is odd. That said it stays in tune perfectly and that's the main thing. I would say upgrade the nut but if you don't use a lot of open strings who cares?

Great Little Slider

A great sounding slider , wasn't sure if i should get one being so cheap i thought it was going to need quite a few modifications but no , i am very happy with it , i don't think i'll be modding it at all. very pleased , how do they do it for the money ?

Great value

I think that some of the reviews here have been harsh. Yes, top-grade strings, tuners an electronics would improve this instrument, naturally. They would also treble the price. This is a perfect lap steel for a beginner who just wants to try one out. At the price, it's absolutely remarkable. When I fed the sound in through a decent setup at home, it was excellent. When I have mastered this one, I can always trade up...

Nice kit on budget..

bought pretty much on a whim, this piece of kit punches well above its weight sound and playability wise. Ok- you could criticize in quality of parts used etc but the bottom line is it sounds good and was ridiculously good value. For what it is- can't fault it..

Pretty good for the price.

It's pretty good for this price. I thought it had a bit loud single coil buzz but it turns out it was just picking up noise from other electronics. Plugging it in different wall socket helps.

Bargain addition to the musical armoury!

Have always loved the sound of lap/pedal steel but, for whatever reason, never even thought to get one despite mimicking the sound on guitar for decades.

Having built an ambient setup recently, and being more than pleased with an HB CST24 P90 purchase, the penny dropped to just get a low-cost HB offering and give it a try. It fits perfectly for creating soundscapes and pads. Having originally set it up to an Open D tuning and getting my head around where the note relationships are have been having a ball going over YouTube videos for further insight and ideas. After that, raising the tuning a whole-step and flattening the 3rd string (so I can switch between Major/Minor behind the bar) makes more sense at the moment but will probably tweak it further as the learning progresses.

Coupled with a volume pedal and various effects-chains being a beginner again is great fun. The instrument does the job intended with the pickup being adequate and even to my ears after raising it a little on the treble side. The tuners don't seem to have a very good ratio but after giving the strings a good stretching over a few hours of playing seem to hold pitch okay so will do for now. It appears to intonate okay as well. I'll invest in a better tone-bar at some point, and probably some tuners, but the one provided will do at this point of the journey.

No complaints at this price and delivered to the UK within a week.

Great entry point

Ordered with a gift card i received from a labelmate as thanks for some help with bass tracking. The build quality is impressive for this price, potentiometers are quite frictiony and the tuners jump around a little but the body itself is solid as a rock.

The lone single-coil sounds a bit dinky at first but once you get your pedals/amp dialed in to add some beef it sounds really nice, not microphonic at all and gets some lovely twang when you compress it a bit! Shockingly little hum as well.

This is my first dedicated lap steel but i've had quite a few guitars in my day and i can definitely say that most people will definitely get quite a bit of use out of this thing. I'll likely be upgrading the pickup and tuners at some point but it's definitely a very competent instrument as is.

Great instrument at this price

Yes, you can find better, and the first thing I did was change the strings and give it an intonation set-up.

But as an independent guitar tech with my own workshop I know you can spend a lot more and it will still need new strings and a set-up. But at this price I give it 5 stars all the way. Great fun!

New toy for my studio

I don"t play lap steel but I sometimes buy things to try to learn. It sounds good and the quality of the build seems good so I'm happy with my purchase.

Beautiful sound

The sound is perfect, the pegs are too poor

Great value for money very well made and sounds great once you get the hang of using a lap steel.

Comes with a handy case.

Good sound and quality for a cheap price!

The Harley Benton Slider II Vintage Series - 6-string Lap Steel Guitar is a good instrument for a honest price. The pickups it's great, but the tunning machine would need to become better. The guitar has a good sound and is a great cost benefit.

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