Harley Benton ST-20HSS SB Standard Series Reviews

At that price is a no brainer!!!

Decent instrument.

Suprisingly good considering low price tag.

Great guitar for your money!

Hello everyone I purchased this guitar as an addition to another one. I was startled. For such money, I got such a high-quality guitar! It's really made of wood not sawdust! On the neck of my guitar there is even a trace of a tree branch=) the Sound is very good. The frets do not protrude. The tremolo works well. The only moment-a little backlash string tensioner number 3. Otherwise, it is a great tool for your money! The color "3-Tone Sunburst" is just fire!!! I recommend to all beginners and playing musicians to buy!

A sound laboratory

To be true, it is my first electric instrument and I have only positive impressions about it. As I used to play acoustic guitar it was important for me to try as much as possible versatile instrument to understand if electric is mine, and I made the right decision when chose the Harley Benton ST-20HSS SB Standard Series. After several months, of course, I want some more and sometimes look for more advanced instrument, but then I take this guitar in my hands and understand that I didn't try this or this... It is amazing, and by this I remembered my teenages when I got my first classic guitar :)

To criticize I should only mention (1) some negligible cosmetic roughnesses (but they are almost invisible), (2) a bit angled neck (the fat E string sometimes goes out from neck on higher frets) and (3) some instability in the tone controls work in the neck-mid position (in the beginning sometimes they did nothing in this position, sometimes worked correctly, but today its ok, what was the reason I don't know). Netherless, all these critic comments are nothing at the background of overall price/quality relation.

Amazing

I have had a lot of fender Stratocaster through out the years. I still own 3 American made. This Harley Benton is as good as any of my three fender strats in my colección. Truly amazing guitar !

Nice quality, but bad sound

Doesn't sound like a strat, but worth the money

Pros: low-cost, good look

Cons: cheap hardware and pickups

Great guitar

However, I got a defective one. The wire inside the connection socket was cut. So the sound was disgusting with lot of noise and whistle.

But I fixed the issue with my forces. And now it's a great one.

Amazing guitar

I purchased this guitar for my son and he soon become obsessed. It sounds beautiful and the finish is perfect.

Good for the price

I have had this guitar for I think 9 months and it is good for the price. I have changed the fretboard with my old squires and installed locking tuners plus a floyd rose locking nut and it still went out of tune.

But I have had numerous hours with this guitar, practicing and stuff after all it's a good guitar for the price, but you will be frustrated with how much it goes out of tune. The sound is nice tho.

Brilliant

For the low price this must be the best budget guitar there is - the sunburst finish and neck are first class and are a great base to add better parts to the guitar as and when you feel like it.

You just can't complain - simply a great buy.

Correct Prize/Value

You cannot ask more from a guitar with this price. Just enough quality in construction and setup.

Sound only good for practicing beginners, nothing else.

Great guitar for a good price

Unexpectedly good quality for such a low price. Quality finish, comfortable neck, decent sound, especially for such low-budget pickups.

For almost 2 years no claims.

Good *for the price*

This is a decent starter guitar. It is on par with the lower-end Squire strats for half the price. Pickups sound better than I would expect for a guitar in this price range, and the humbucker puts out a decent amount of output.

Delivery to the US was fine and the guitar arrived in good shape. Intonation and action were way off, and needed to be set up before playing.

The main issue with the guitar is that it doesn't stay in tune very well. The tuners and nut are quite poor, which probably contributes to this. I would plan to replace both of them if you want to play this guitar frequently.

Great guitar

Bought this guitar a while ago and im using it on a band practice..

Pros:

Finish is amazing.. no rough spots and the burst is really making the guitar shine.. Neck is comfortable c shape..stock pickups were ok but i changed them for emg 81.. which made it sound like heaven..

Cons:

Guitar is after 15 min of playing (i play pretty hard.. so that maybe wont be your problem) out of tune, so you probably have to change tuners and especially nut and seddles.. i dont know why, but i am not able to get the intonation right..

Overall if you put some work into it and do some upgrades it can become high end guitar..

Harley Benton ST-20HSS

Sound:

The stock pickups are good enough to play any music genres. The humbuckers sounded pretty well with hi-gain amps. Even with clean effects it sounded great. The other two single pickups are also good although not excellent to my taste.

Finish:

Overall I can say that the finish on this guitar is pretty well-built. The one i received had an excellent finishing. The frets are nicely placed. Fretboard is amazing. Its just the tuners that can go tiny bit of out tuning when played hard. The sunburst colour makes it like an expensive guitar. I have friends coming over and look at this guitar first time thinking it cost above 200Euros because of how it looks.

Conclusion:

My final verdict for this guitar is that anyone should get one of these Harley Benton products. I played guitar for 20 years and really satisfied with it. For gigs, this guitar can be a saviour if you get what i mean.