Harley Benton ST-Mini BK

Grandkid Guitar

After getting the twin 7 year old Grandkids a 3/4 acoustic I decided to buy them a drum set (boy) and this mini-strat for the girl.

I was quite impressed with this 3/4 electric. After a bit of set up and fresh strings it played very well. This actually be a good travel Guitar.

Well done Harley Benton!

Very hard to keep in tune

Not due to tuners being bad, but probably the scale of the guitar, I wasn't able to play it without detuning every time I touch the strings. Thought this might need to be tuned to a higher pitch in order to be stabler, but couldn't find any tuning information about it.

You get what you pay for

I bought this guitar after some good you tube reviews.

For 79 euros, it is a decent instrument.

Pros: Very nice clean sounds,

cheap,

easy to play

Cons: Awful intonation that i struggle to set,

Very very high action,

fret edges very rough that needs some work in order not to hurt the kids fingers,

mediocre tuning stability

Very dry fretboard

Mini strat (black)

I also have a mini squire strat which is around $170 to $200.

This Harley Benton feels more solid to me and better tuners at a fraction of the price.

The fret ends are even better.

Im impressed 100 percent .

Solid little guitar that sounds like a strat . Two thumbs up .

I bought this guitar for my 7 year old son. Its a bit on the heavy side for a kid that age but the quality of the sound and overall instrument is great. As with all my guitars regardless of brand I do recommend getting it set up properly. I would definitely recomend if you´re looking for a small scale guitar for travel or for kids.

Absolute bargain

I bought this guitar to turn into a Duo-Sonic kind of thing. It was great out of the box - nice scale length, fine pickups and through-body stringing! (Toploading is also an option.) Incredible value really.

I've rewired it without the middle pickup and with out-of-phase on the selector switch; I play it as often as much more expensive guitars.

Strongly recommend even in stock form - a great travel/sofa/desk guitar, with a very playable scale length (the same as the shorter OG Duo-Sonics etc), but even shorter overall length.

Bought for 9yr Old

Great little 3/4 starter guitar - Son loves it. Stays in tune and plays great. What else can I say?

Bang for the buck guaranteed

I bought this tiny guitar for the convenience of grabbing it off the wall and play it right away for short breaks from work. I was surprised by how well it plays and sits on my hands, despite the awful tuning stability. For its price point, this is a nearly perfect bet since it comes relatively well set up by default, e.g. smooth fret endings, acceptable intonation, screws decently tied, etc. The only reason it's not 5 stars is really that awful tuning stability, which will make you add another 20€ + on top of your purchase if you don't want to spend half of your time tuning or, even worse, trying to tune the guitar. In my case, I can't even tune the lower E string. Otherwise, you'll get your bang for the buck: guaranteed!

Its cheap but it is good

I bought this guitar for my 8 year old daughter.

The quality was surprisingly good, better than expected. The fretboard color is kind of purple, not dark brown as on the pictures - but my daughter likes it very much, so I have no problem with it. It was also quite dry, but some lemon oil helped.

After a basic setup and fine tuning - intonation, lowering the sting height, lubing the nut - It played quite nicely. The tuners are cheap, but they work. I changed two things: the string trees to GraphTech, and the strings.

So with a little work, it can be a realy great little guitar

It sounds quite good, the neck feels nice. Had no big problems with the frets - they seem to be leveled. The fret ends are not bad either (better then on a Squire Mini I tried before), but they will need some work, and polishing the frets will

Excellent - VFM

Excellent choice for its price. Nice sound quality.