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

Harley Benton ST-62MN VW Vintage Series

Nice Guitar sounds great and looks amazing, price is crazy - if i could change one thing with this guitar it would be the neck its a little thick and has a serious clear coat which adds to the feel other than that and that's just my preference its a great guitar out of the box

Great guitar

Overall great looking guitar. Arrived yesterday to the UK neatly packaged with no damage at all. The color of the guitar is slightly more yellow than the images intend but that didn't bother me at all. The paint quality of the body and the lacquer finish of the wood is finished to a high standard. The strings it arrived with were a tad rusty and the overall setup was very high. I will surely be changing the strings and taking the guitar to my local shop for a good setup. The tuners seem fine for now and feel sturdy. The pickups (especially bridge) sound very good. I honestly could not find a single fault besides the old strings but that can happen and isn't a large issue. Overall I feel this guitar is truly unbeatable for the price. A great instrument for a beginner like myself or more experienced players. This will surely not be my last Harley Benton!

ideal for fun

Bought this one for mods and fun.

I already done some mods so I've met the guitar wery well.

Wood quality is surprisingly good. Had to expand tuning holes for HB locking machines and wasn't easy because wood is well dried. Truss rod is god, and guitar came with perfect guitar profile.

Guitar came with high action so I had to lower it. Tremolo isn't precise for setting up action, but whole guitar costs like some tremolos here on site and I understand it.

Had to change string immediately.

Neck is so beautiful looking and well polished, the frets are so good and even. But, it is too fat for my taste, I like thinner necks. Also, very glossy back of the neck so my fingers sticks on it when playing fast and sloppy.

Have buzzes on opened B string, because of nut is a bit lower on that position than the first fret, so I needed extra setting on tremolo with that string and it stayed high on action. I'll remove that tremolo soon, very unstable for setting up, but overall good when you set up everything.

I recommend guitar for beginners and for modification for someone who loves fat neck.

Harley Benton ST-62MN

Very nice looking and sounding guitar

Fun modding platform

I have been playing my ST-62 for over a year now. Out of the box I did not like how the neck felt. I have read and heard other comments to the same. The neck felt sticky and too fat. My first thing was to sand down the back of the neck and that helped, but I ended up buying a cheap neck from china and I prefer that with a satin finish and rosewood fretboard. I also ordered a mint green perl HSS pick guard and added a humbucker.

The biggest con was the neck, but for the price I wouldn't give the guitar a negative review. Buyer be ware you may have to do setup work. The original neck needed tweaking to remove buzzes.

The pros are that I want to learn how to work on a guitar and this is an inexpensive way to do that. I ended up with basically a parts caster and I am loving it more everyday. It looks cool hanging on the was with my sage green Player Series Strat and my Ocean Flame CST-24T P90. I love how the mint green pick guard and the rosewood fretboard look on this guitar.

I would recommend this guitar. The tone was good out of the box, I just wanted more options and so I made the mods.

Excellent budget ST style guitar

I bought this as a backup guitar and to fill the single coil role for home recording projects. I didn't want to spend alot of money and had read reviews / heard sound clips and decided to take the plunge.

First impressions were good, the guitar looks great, plays nicely and was well set up (lowish action and intonation was set). Electronics are fine, all pickups work and sound how you'd expect them to in

each position and switch and pots all work as they should.

The Wilkinson pickups are great (though a little noisy with gain / high volume) and sound like the guitar they are emulating in each position:

The neck pickup is great for cleans and lightly overdriven tones, the middle / bridge position gives

a great quacky clean tone and the bridge is very bright and great for leads and overdriven / distorted rhythm playing.

The bridge is good and is adjustable for string height (action) and length (intonation) and has 3 tremolo springs which hold it firmly in place (couldn't use the tremolo bar) You could loosen the springs (or remove one of the springs) to use this though not sure how well it'd hold tuning.

The neck doesn't sit flush with the body (their is a small gap between them) this doesn't affect playability of the instrument and is purely a cosmetic flaw.

The fretboard is a separate piece of wood to the neck (though this isn't too noticable as the neck has a gloss finish) again just a cosmetic issue. On close inspection the fretboard markers also seem slightly blurry (almost like a low resolution image)

Tuners work and hold tuning though aren't particularly smooth and can be quite difficult to turn.

Nut is well cut and intonation at the first fret is fine and didn't notice any tuning issues from strings bends Though I did put some graphite (pencil lead) on the nut slots when I first changed the strings.

The truss rod doesn't seem to do anything, I changed string gauge and didn't notice any difference when trying to make an adjustment (ended up doing a whole turn anti clockwise to add relief and measured no change with the feeler gauge)

Overall for the price this was a great purchase with only minor issues and cosmetic flaws going against it and will suit a beginner as well as someone looking for a budget backup or just looking to try an ST style guitar.

It's not bad guitar especially for beginners but if you are more advanced musician I suggest you to buy something above 150¤. Guitar seems to be like a toy. Neck has a lot of lacquer