Harley Benton TE-62DB LPB Reviews

out of the box and on stage.

Arrived in the nick of time. Straight outta the packaging and with some very minor tweaks I was playing it live that night. 4 for the features. Does what it says on the tin. 5 for the sound. many different genres. take the time to explore. 5 for the quality. Immaculate finish. Build, body, neck. For less than £200 compared with £1000 and much more.

Super fine Tele shaped

This is the 2nd HB guitar I've ordered. The tele shape and specifically the tele style pickups have always been interesting to me, the TE62 fails to disappoint. sound wise it brings out that kind of familiar twang you have on teles. I can't compare playability but it is overall pretty comfortable, all stock materials are great! it holds tune, sounds fantastic and just really fun to play overall.

Good, but it needs some work

The finish is awesome, altough i'd like to address some issues:

The setup wasn't great out of the box. Had to do some truss rod and action adjustments.

The electronics work, but they're cheap and flimsy.

Pickups are good.

The tuners are very stiff.

Fret work is good. No sharp ends. But they need polishing.

Overall a good guitar for the price and a very good looking mod platform.

Equal to my Fender 62 custom

I've owned a real one for over thirty years and I compared the Harley Benton with the Fender and couldn't separate them for playability & tone, I had three band members listening whilst I did an A/B comparison. From a playing point I felt equally comfortable on both the Fender & the HB and my bandmates said the sound was equal too, after I played the same parts on each guitar. We were all well impressed and I didn't have a lot of setting up to do out of the box, just string heights that's all. The Harley Benton TE-62 DB, Absolutely recommended !

Much Better Than You May Expect

I seriously like that guitar. One of the best among those new affordable line of electric guitars. Best sides of the TE-62DB LPB are;

-) Great natural tone,

-) Problem free fretjob

-) Good level of nut job

-) Good woods,

-) Very nice tone

Something i don't enjoy;

-) Neck pickup (needs and deserves something better)

-) Nut material (too soft plastic)

-) Bridge Material (deserves something better)

-) Pots (i dont enjoy their taper)

For that price, it ireally is a steal! Don't miss it.

Nice T Style Guitar

Very pleased with this order so far. The guitar is solidly constructed and has a really comfortable (and nice looking) neck and a classy double bound body. The colour is lighter than anticipated by the looks of the photos on the site but I like the lighter colour, it also has a metalic flake which is a nice addition. The roasted maple nice is mad at this price point. The frets were well installed and it was comfortable out of the box. The pickups have a typical telecaster style sound but are on the brighter end! They sound really nice once properly adjusted (I particularly like the neck pickup). The pickguard is the cheapest looking part of the guitar but easily replaced. At this price point it is ridiculously good value for money for this specification, if it were another brand it would easily cost 3 x more.

love it

I want the black model now .......sheesh these things are too nice.

Sweet

A great light weight tele,just popped some brass saddles and tusk nut. Another of much dearer guitars are left in rack as this gets plucked.

Looks and plays great!

I’m extremely happy with the sound and feel of this instrument especially at this price point. Love the colour as well.

Superb guitar.

Bought this as I fancied another t type guitar, it's a phenomenal little thing. After initial tuning it played like a dream, intonation was spot on and the action was pretty good from the factory too.

Very beautiful guitar and a great player!

I saw a young woman busking with one of these in Brighton and she sounded amazing. I knew I had to get one, and I'm not disappointed. Could not believe how everything was spot on out of the box. Haven't adjusted the neck, action or intonation at all. Not even changed the strings. You get all the great Telecaster sounds from Steve Cropper to funk to dreamy indie on your clean channel and great Hendrix-y bluesy tones when you thicken it up. Completely gorgeous looking - a double-bound Tele is surely one of the highest points in the history of guitar design - and the lightly sparkling blue finish is a delight. Get one!

Great guitar !

This is one of 3 Harley Benton guitars I own. I love it. I can get some really nice telecaster sounds out of it. It is definitely worth the price. I think these are better quality than some of the Fender Squire's I have played. All I can say is, if you want a telecaster copy, buy it !! You won't be sorry.

Nice telecaster

My first time back on an electric in a few years, previously played an Epiphone SG and back then if you didn't buy from a subsidiary brand like that you didn't know what you were really getting yourself into.

Pleased to say that this guitar is pretty nice for the money, intonation and setup is basically bang on out of the box, no sharp frets and it doesn't have any tuning issues to speak of, I was torn between this and JET's new Tele's but I really really like this finish (Of which I could find no flaws), and the through body stringing is nice too.

Currently using super slinky's on it and its a dream after some small adjustments, stock strings were good but I prefer thinner ones on electrics. I'll probably upgrade from here, doubt I'll be buying a more expensive tele any time soon. Really good time to get into music with guitars this cheap.

Okay but needs a good setup

I received the Instrument today. Looks pretty good, although the shade of blue is lighter than the website showed - but okay). The neck is narrow (as advertised) and good for me with smaller hands. However the fret edges were 'noticable' (a little) when playing (not terrible but noticable). There seems to be a little bit of fret choking here and there on the neck (even though I specifically asked for 'quality control' to check the guitar before shipping). The pickups sound fine. Tuners seem okay at the moment, although I need to restring the guitar 'properly' to be certain there are no problems. Intonation appears to be okay. All in all an Okay guitar for the money except for the string 'choking' here and there (and I'm not talking about string choking when bending the strings either).

Surprisingly good

This is a EUR 160 guitar, but the craftsmanship cannot be matched for the price.

The neck feels smooth, the frets are solid, it came almost completely set up from the box and the Roswell pickups are really really good (although I did lower them a pinch, but adjustments are to be expected even with high-end guitars).

The finish is superb, just superb. I'm really happy and will be buying a HB again!

10/10

Don’t hesitate. They go out of stock quick!

amazing with some light work on it

mine needed some general setup. The pots needed tightening and the neck needed a shim, but to be honest i had to do that with guitars 2x the price so i cant fault it too much. After some work put in this becomes an amazing guitar that you couldnt buy for 500+ let alone what it cost atm.

Very good quality for the price!

Very nice finish. Good factory set-up. Very playable smooth neck. Good tele sound. Came out of the box with some sharp fret ends, but after few days they disappears, i think because of humdity changes. 4 stars beacause of two cracks in the neck pocket after a few days (i think it happens beacause of humidity too). No sahrp fret ends, but cracks in the neck pocket :)

Very surprising guitar

This is my first Harley Benton guitar, probably won't be my last.

I'm not a super high end guitar player though I've played some belonging to friends. I've been playing about 20 years or so. When I first heard about Harley's they weren't spoken of very highly however I'd noticed they were getting some great reviews, after some thought and skepticism I decided to give them a try.

I'm glad I did, the item was shipped to my door in a week with no extra UK import charges, nice😊

First impressions were very good, no issues, beautiful finish and the hardware and quality are better than the big F's budget S range. Everything was spot on for me. Nothing really needs changing on this guitar, it's so easy to believe if we change things it will be better. It is great as it is, the tuning machines are very good as is the bridge and the pickups sound great to me. Out the box the action was about 2mil at that 12th fret, a little high but not excessive I took the action down to 1.5 mil by lowering the saddles and I loosened the truss rod half a turn for a bit more relief.... Bingo perfect. The nut is well cut and the finger board is very nice, it looks the same as rosewood to me. I've really bonded with this guitar and it's got me inspired again after struggling with fat neck epiphone 56 Les Paul that was collecting dust.

I really can't fault it at the price, it doesn't feel or perform like a budget priced guitar. It punches way above it's weight even the graphics and the headstock look really cool.

Harley Benton are kicking ass with this telecaster.

Great value

I changed the tuners for locking tuners otherwise very good guitar