Harley Benton ST-62BK Hot Rod

Positively surprised

This guitar was bought as a first electric guitar for young guitarist. The Tortoise pickguard was changed with white one, and it looked more beautiful, at least for me :)

The only thing that needed to make this guitar perfect, was lowering the action, which was really easy fix. The frets were good, even so they were polished with Polishing Fret Rubber, and now are perfect. There is no better stratocast3r like guitar for this price. The pickups are great, especially the bridge humbucker.

I love it !

The low price for this kind of quality is fantastic !! It looks, feels, plays and sounds great ! It stays in tune very well. I highly recommend it. It may not be a fender, but for somebody like me, who just plays with his drinking buddies, it is perfect, and a great value ! This my 3rd Harley Benton guitar. All I can say is buy one !! Or two !!

Love this guitar!

I am never disappointed with a Harley Benton!

Great guitar for the price

Awesome guitar. The quality you get for the price is almost criminal.

Rails sound great with gains.

The coil tap added feature is just cool.

Versatile guitar !

Out of box i did some string height adjustment and one of the saddle screws was stuck. Loosened the string and adjusted that one screw with pliers. Frets are nice and smooth , neck feels comfortable and the push-pull works good. Pickups sound good and characteristic. The only issue was the stuck saddle screw.

Outstanding value

For Harley Benton guitars, we all know that you get a lot for your money, you just have to be a little lucky to come across a good piece. Because quality control isn't the best - and it's not just Harley Benton guitars. Many other companies face the same problems.

The guitar looks great, I can't find any flaws anywhere. It can be seen from the tuners, that they are not really the best. As for the pickups, I was positively surprised because they sound quite well. Especially the humbucker is very good (and quite highoutput). The only thing I have to point out is the overall setup. Extremely bad setup on the guitar. When the luthier sets up my guitar properly, I daresay it will be a great guitar - especially considering the ridiculously low price.

I decided to give it a 5 stars overall, because for the money you get a really great instrument.

Almost great!

To be honest, I didn`t expect much for this money. I just wanted an inexpensive stick to practice. But there were some pleasent surprizes.

First of all, in my case, this guitar have coil-split function on Volume Knob. This is nice. Tremolo works fine. Overall sound is ok for the money! Build quality looks ok to me, but bridge saddles could be better ;)

awesome!

What's a phenomenal guitar for the price

harley benton

hummbucker is a nice touch guitsr sounds great

A lot crammed into that price.

Ok so right off the bat, the problems: It's really lightweight. Enough to maybe affect tone and sustain if you notice subtle nuances like that in tonewoods. Personally, I'm deaf.

The tremolo tends to knock it out of tune pretty quickly. I'll replace the butterfly string guides with something more suitable.

that's about it. I'm not a fan of the lighter fretboard wood, but a little Fiebings dye will turn that around if it becomes so unbearable. Otherwise I am FLOORED they were able to fit this much into this price point.

The caramelized maple neck has a satiny smooth finish that is a pleasure to play. The body is slightly smaller than a proper Strat, but honestly that works in its favor with it being light.

The pickups have that singular Strat jangle that I was looking for, and the hot rail is the perfect thing for those that still want to have that strat single coil in the bridge sound as an option.

I will be ordering many more Harley Bentons in the future.