Harley Benton ST-62MN VW Vintage Series

Great guitar for the money

It feels good and sounds good, pickups are good enough and you don't need to change them (unless you want a hot rod). The fret edges are smoth, although they are not very well leveled, so if you want to have a somewhat low action, you need to do the fretwork or have a luthier do it for you. But if you don't mind having a higher action, this guitar is basically ready to go from the box. Amazing instrument for the price, would recoment to anyone that wants a strat

This is a GREAT guitar.

I've been a pro and semi pro player for over thirty years. I can't believe how good this guitar is. My mate played it and kept saying ... this is a £1000 guitar .. How are they doing it for £120? ... I should mention two things ... One, the neck has natural wood markings that would have probably made it a reject at one of the big brand companies? If the neck didn't play well (It plays and feels AMAZING) I would have returned it? It doesn't bother me at all. and Two, the bridge saddles need a little 'sorting out' .. nothing major but thought I'd mention it. I love this guitar ..I had in mind modding it with new pickups... Love the pickups that are on it ... I might buy another one ? ..

The quality surprised me

I bought this guitar to mod and experiment with it. I was shocked with the quality that came from factory at this price though, and Ive change my mind on experimenting with it. It is a very good guitar for the price. The pick ups are really good, the neck is really comfortable to play, the string action was also really good (way better than other more expensive guitars I owned). I also initially thought tuning would be an issue with a guitar with this price but this is not the case. If I use the trem or bend the strings a lot then it gets untuned, but other than that, it stays in trune very well. On top of that, the caramelized neck fits very well with the light yellow tons of the guitar and o found it beautiful. I am overall really impressed with this guitar.

Very very good

Bought the guitar and it arrived in a week No damage from shipping, fret edges are immaculate (seriously some top tier work) Nexl feels amazing I can't stop playing In general the guitar feels amazing and looks amazing 4/5 for features since it doesn't have locking tuners or a floyd rose or something special to bump it up Seriously recommend this guitar (I bought this one as my dedicated single coil strat)

Great for the price

Good guitar. Fret sprout appeared after a month or so.. But with a little bit of work the frets were fine. Plays good, I like the neck finish, would like the neck even more if the fretboard radius was a little rounder.

The pickups are good, sounds like a vintage strat, not the best one, but good enough.

Machine heads are a little stiff but hold the tuning just fine.

I would recommend this guitar to anyone searching for a cheap strat.

Great strat!

This is a great guitar. It sounds like a stratocaster is supposed to sound, stays in tune amazingly well and it feels like a much more expensive guitar. Also, last but not least, the customer service is of an exemplary behaviour.

Unbeatable in the price range

As usual, the guitar arrived in Hungary in about a week, in perfect condition. Packaging was decent.

It's absolutely gorgeous... can't get enough of the neck. Feels great, plays great. The frets are surprisingly well rounded off especially for the price range, and the texture and finish is fantastic.

It was even set up very nicely. The guitar is very light, holds the tuning pretty well. The pickups sound good.

For this price I originally thought, if nothing else, it will be a nice wall decoration, but it's so much more. It just begs to be played.

It's absolutely unbeatable in this price range.

For sure I got a bad copy

Been researching this guitar for quite a long time. Watched and read plenty of reviews as one does, so decided to buy it.

The thing came with super high action. "Well, just needs a basic setup", I thought.

Proceeded to do the basic adjustment on the truss rod to get the recommended 010" at the 7-8th fret when the E is pressed at the first and last fret. Adjusted the bridge saddles and checked: What a disaster. The guitar buzzes everywhere. I didn't even lower to the 4/64" and 6/64" height recommended at the 12th fret and the guitar was already sounding absurdly bad. Had I done that it'd be absolutely unplayable.

I'm very disappointed. Should have bought 2 copies to see if I'd get lucky with one at least.

Most of the comments about low quality copies I saw online were from far back in the past, 2015/2020-ish, so to know that today (Aug 2023) this is still an issue is hard to digest.

I hope to get the courage to buy another HB again.

Great value, nice sounding guitar.

I expected flaws, but found none. Would be careful with the thin term block, but the guitar stay in tune, so all good. Why go for a second hand guitar when you can get one of these for not a lot of money.

Full featured ST style guitar

Classic looks. Flawless paint finish. The roasted maple neck is so good and the graphite nut make this an extraordinary value. Pickups are in the sweet spot between 60's mellow and modern hot.