Harley Benton ST-62MN VW Vintage Series Reviews

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

First Electric Guitar - Really Really Good

As the title says, it´s my first electric guitar and before purchasing it I did a whole research on which one to buy, and finally went for this one and it did not let me down, so I?m really happy with what I got for what I paid.

The guitar looks amazing, the vintage white and the maple neck looks far better in person than in the pictures. Also plays really good, personally coming from an acoustic guitar I found the neck really comfortable, also weight wise it feels good. I asked my guitar instructor to play it and get his thoughts about it and his feedback was pretty much positive. Also few friends that saw it were impressed with the guitar.

The sound is nice, I played along my instructor?s branded guitar, it didn?t sound exactly the same but you could barely tell the difference. I would recomend this guitar to anyone that?s looking to get a nice guitar at a great quality/price relation.

I will definitely consider a Harley Benton guitar in any future purchase.

Needs a lot of tuning

Tremolo system on this guitar is a joke. It is impossible to make it to work properly. Too small space for tremolo block inside body is preventing from free tremolo floating. Springs claw is screwed offset also. Quality control could be better. Back cavity cover has wrong cutout and prevents 6th string end come out when you need to change it. Right out the box guitar needs a lot of work and setting. Otherwise - nice guitar for a price. Sounds like proper start.

THE ONE.

This is VINTAGE, it has everything you hope for and more. The Vintage -White body is just the right weight, the maple neck feel very comfortable, the fret are nicely finished, and the tuners work nicely. As usual the Wilkinson pickups are well balanced, offering some sweet mellow tones, when you want, then transforming to produce some savage grittiness. This is a classy instrument, without a doubt !!