Harley Benton ST-20HSS SBK Standard Series 5-stars Reviews

Great

Just what I needed for amazing value. Very good quality. I'm a beginner and have used a more expensive Ibanez. This C neck Fender style just blew my mind with the feel, ease of play, sound, and much more. I'm thinking of ordering another one for my daughter.

A good first guitar

It's a really good cheap guitar, you can also upgrade it so it can be a project guitar too! I have lots of fun learning with it!

Great Budget frendly guitar

Great guitar with great sound. Has both types of pickups so it enables you to play something clean and funky but it has dual coil bridge pickup so if you want to kick it into higher gear and play some distortion stuff it offers great sound. Easy to setup and change wires. Only flaw is that if you use the tremolo system it goes out of tune quickly but guitar costs less than a tank of gas. Great for beginners, easy to play. If you decide you don't want to play anymore it doesn't matter because it isn't a lot of money and if you keep playing you can go long time without buying another guitar because for playing at home, having fun and learning on budget, it's the best guitar on the site!!

Amazing value for money.

First of all it looks awesome. I know this is immaterial in terms of its functionality but still looking good it a big plus. It came with quite high action but I could easily adjust it. It sounds like a much more expensive guitar. I have no idea what the PUs are but the to single coil ones are very bright and clear while the humbacker does a great job and is quite loud. It stays on tune and even the whammy bar is not bad with a bit of an adjustment.

My first gripe is that the HB is not affected by the tone dial. It is constantly set to bright. This seems to be by design but not a massive issue. The other gripe is that it is very easy to scratch and since mine is matte black, every single knick shows. I need to find some type of matte touch up paint if it exists.

Overall extremely happy for a guitar under $100.

One of the best

Setup was great. Guitar feels good in the hands. Definitely my favorite guitar.

For this money you can't find a better guitar

A very high quality cheap guitar. Suitable for all styles due to bridge humbucker. A very versatile and high quality guitar that will suit everyone, both beginners and intermediate guitarists.

Otroligt mycket gitarr för pengarna

Hur mycket som helst för dom här pengarna. Tänkte hänga upp den på väggen men nu är den min turnegitarr. Mycket gitarr för pengarna. Det enda lilla minus enligt mig är mickarna som låter lite tråkiga enligt min smak samt att stämmskruvarna är lite sådär (Jämfört med min 72a telcester) köper nog ett par till, kan ju inte ha för många gitarrer.

This is a great guitar for the money!

There are no comments! The guitar is definitely worth the money! Delivered quickly. No damage. I bought it for my brother. He's a newbie. It's the best option for him. I advise beginners to purchase.

Very Good for Beginners

I played classical guitar for 2 years and this is my firs e-guitar. As a beginner i can say that this thing is very good man! It is easy and comfortable to play and it looks gorgeous.

Great Guitar for Beginners

I've had this guitar as a beginner for all of about two months now, and I absolutely love this thing.

Harley Benton surprises!

This is the best guitar for the money. I have other instruments, including much more expensive ones, I compared them in sound recording and I will say that the difference is not perceptible! As for the quality of workmanship, there was not a single flaw in this copy. You just need to immediately change the strings to new ones, you can even install cheap harley benton strings, they sound great when fresh. Also, the pitch of the strings was not tuned, I did it myself in a couple of minutes. Otherwise I am very satisfied. The matte paint is incredible. I could not think that for $ 100 you can get a guitar of this quality.

Impressive piece for the cost

I'm certainly not a guitar expert, when I saw this model for the first time online I instantly had to have a closer look. Upon watching a few too many unboxing videos and videos of the guitar in action. I decided to bite the bullet and buy this as my first ever electric guitar.

I love the look of this guitar, it's absolutely my style and Harley Benton written on the headstock makes it seem less beginner-ish to the untrained eye. Rather than blowing over a grand on a big name for my first guitar.

I ordered full well knowing it would be a while to arrive, as it was a back order.

It finally arrived today, I noticed the box had taken some damage in shipping although thankfully it was just an outer layer.

The guitar itself, was checked and signed off as part of the QC process, both in the warehouse and by the manufacturer, so the process was obviously pretty stringent.

I inspected the guitar, upon opening to find perfect paintwork, no sharp frets and surprisingly shipped with strings already fitted.

I tuned up to test it and I was actually very impressed with the sound, the setup felt pretty good too.

Although I will let my guitar tech friend take a look at it to check all is well in due course when we do some sessions on the basics of playing.

I restrung with his help and recommendation too.

I get a feeling I am going to enjoy learning to play with this guitar.

Overall, I am very very impressed with the quality of this guitar, it feels and looks like an item that should cost twice as much as it does.

It makes a great beginner guitar or even a good backup for a professional, given some love and setting up.

TRUE Strat sound!

this guitar honestly astonishes me. I have several real stratocasters, and this sounds as good or better than most of those. The only gripe I have is that the fretboard is a tad bit dry, but I will oil it up and likely should solve the issue. The pickups are amazing, and the guitar was even perfectly set up - right out of the box!

Great value

As a beginner, this guitar has been a blast to pick up and practice almost daily.

I bought the kit with the amp, and it has been a great experience so far, really recommended for beginners.

So good

This was my one of my better pickups, this guitar is so good and it's really remarkable for how low its price is.

Highly recommended.

Very good guitar. I really like it

She is wonderful.

Several months have passed since the purchase of this guitar and I can say that I am not disappointed. A very beautiful, pleasant and good sounding guitar. An ideal choice for a beginner or someone on a budget. The only thing that confuses me is that the guitar gets very dirty. I always wash my hand before picking up the instrument, but sometimes it doesn't help. The most important thing is that it fully fulfills its functions, attracts attention with its external and technical parameters, and was delivered to Russia safe and sound. Thanks!

Nice guitar

It is good. Not just for the price - just good.

pros:

beautiful finish

overall aestetics, well constructed, no major flawes

sound is quite good, humbucker is hot

cons:

-one tuner is a bit strange, but nothing crucial. It was loosing tune for some reason, but after several tunes it stopped.

-finish is fragile, be carefull fith your guitar. I have already scratched it a bit on the back side.

Mindblowing guitar for it's price

Ordered it with low expectations. When it arrived I noticed it sounds super cool even when not plugged in, much louder than any of my other guitars and a nice metallic sound. Not sure if this is because of the string type or the tension springs, I tried dampening those though but it still sounds neat.

It needed a bit of setup since strings were buzzing a little but as a complete beginner to setups I believe I fixed it quite easily by adjusting the rod. Now it's my favorite guitar, so much fun to play! The neck is super smooth and feels amazing to hold. Doing bends is not great though, believe the frets need to be polished.

Overall the highest value for your money I can imagine when it comes to a guitar and it looks amazing as well.

Great Looking and sounding ST-20HSS SBK

This Guitar is a great value , It looks just as impressive in person , for all real GTR players who know how to set up their Guitars the way they like them and love making them theirs , this ideal .. out of the box their was at most two or three filing of the frets, the pickups are great sounding, i use Tens on all my GTR's so after changing strings this Guitar Shines in sound .. as a Recording Engineer and Artist .. i believe in the right hands this Guitar can compete with guitars three times the price ... I would recommend this to intermediate players and pros as well ... as a fun Axe to enjoy as is or modify .. but it is well worth having !! To Harley Benton Cheers !! Rockin Design !!!

Best cheap guitar you can find

I bought this guitar to do some work on it and maybe change some parts but the guitar quality was amazing! So I only changed Neck pickup (the previous one was also very good).

Pros:

+great quality.

+great sound.

+looks amazing.

+low price.

+good tuners.

cons:

-one strap knob was little rusty.

-fretboard was really dry (buy some lemon oil).

It was worth buying it!