Harley Benton ST-62MN BK Vintage Series 4-stars Reviews

Good for the price

I use this guitar for practice mostly. Never tried a Harley Benton guitar before and heard it was affordable for it's value. The guitar looks beautifull and sounds good. The only con i see is the fret buzz on the 7th fret. I had to put the strings a little to far from the neck to correct it. That impacts a little in playbility, but overall its a good sounding guitar, totally worth the money.

Sounds Great but not good with interface

So this guitar sounds wonderful almost like my fender strats, but it doesn't work with my Focusrite Interface it keeps buzzing no matter what, I had people check the Focusrite with other guitars - no problem - and then with Harley and still buzzing. Maybe there was something just wrong with the wiring of my guitar but the store people couldn't figure it out. Otherwise, I would easily take it on stage or practice!

BEGINER'S CHOICE

It sounds really nice!Maybe needs a setting and a set of new strings,but it is perfect for beginers!Nice prise!

Don`t read the headline only!

I`ll keep it simple and clear

Neck:

- Out of the box straight neck, nice action, pretty decent intonation, no sharp fret ends

- Rough frets, polished them with fret rubber and now they are smooth and shiny

- Thick neck, like really fat. Not complaining tho

- The finish on the back of the neck restricted hand movement a bit, so I sanded it down to matt with 240 sandpaper - much much better to play.

- Weird sound on D and G string from 12th fret and higher. Sounds like the notes are out of tune with itself and they die out quickly.

Hardware:

- Tuners seemed to be tight and fine, but changed them out to locking ones anyway

- Neck plate had this plastic base thing, got rid of that cuz it kills sustain (atleast so they say)

- The bridge is firmly against the body

Pickups:

- Middle pup is RWRP. So in theory the pickups are hum-canceling on postition 2 and 4.

- Sound is good, twangy and dynamic. Can`t compare with real strats, because I simply don`t know.

Electronics:

- The pots/knobs turn quite densely

- Needs to be shielded with copper tape, buzzes pretty loudly when not touching metal parts (I play with rather high gain)

- CHECK THE GROUND WIRE ON SPRING CLAW. Mine got detached because the claw is aluminium and solder won`t stick to it well. I put the wire between the coils of a bridge spring.

- Checked everything with multimeter. Everything is grounded and work as they should.

Other things:

- neck fits tight into its pocket which is nice

- the sustain is okay

- not plugged in the guitar sounds woody, and somewhat closed.

- the finish is great, pickguard edge has some uneven spots, and the finish on the edges of fretboard has been sanded off, probably in the progress of working with fret ends.

And that`s about it.

You get what you pay for

This guitar does what it says. The frets are rough and i would not trust the whammy. The components are cheap but what are you expecting at this price, But damn the guitar looks good. Great first guitar!