Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series 4-stars Reviews

Very nice

I think this would be an excellent choice for a first guitar. Body is made out of 3 pieces, neck is from a single piece of wood and has nice satin finish which I prefer to painted necks. I've seen this model in videos before but didn't like the colors... until I saw that they have it in sunburst. I could never understand the reverse headstock on guitars but it is what it is. It's a cheap guitar so no roasted neck, no locking tuners or other extras but pickups are excellent. I never played any real filtertrons so I don't know how they are supposed to sound but I think they would sound just like these. Low noise humbuckers but with a very interesting timbre, hard to describe really but I think very suitable for rockabilly or country. There was a video on youtube where the user was demonstrating defective electronics - microphonic pickups on this model. The one that I received doesn't have this problem and was reasonably set up out of the box. Once I change the strings I may try to lower the action but it's reasonably good as it is.

The ‘“bang for buck” that keeps Harley Benton relevant

This guitar is excellent for the price range, period. Are you going to sell your Fenders? No. Can you gig and record with it? Absolutely.

I was lucky to receive a well setup instrument, which saves me quite a bit of time. With one exception: the pickup height isn’t ideal, and there is little or no adjustment available. (I will have to disassemble and see if adding height adjustment springs is possible.)

What’s good? Straight neck. Rather good fret work. Nice and resonant. Very good setup on this. Bridge is decent-to-good. I see no need to replace it. The pickups sound great, exactly what they are meant to replicate, though I’d like a little more height adjustment. Very nice paint job on this one too.

What’s not good? Plastic nut. (Often an easy replacement, let’s see how much glue is back there…) Typical scratchy frets that you find in this price range. (Easy fix.). The tuners are also quite poor. (Easily replaced). The jack, typical cheap jack. Replaceable. Will I? Not sure. Let’s see how it breaks in…

Overall this is a bargain and a welcome addition to my music room.

Great guitar for value

I mainly use guitar for live gigs and also for some studio work.

The guitar was well set up when I took it out from the box. Fretwork was amazing, but whoever was doing it wasn't very careful, because there are visible trace of fretwork on the neck. But for me that is not an issue since guitar feels comfortable to play. It stays in tune, and neck is also comfortable to play. The biggest plus are pickups. They sound nice and have some bite. I really like them. They are little bit scooped, but that is not an issue for me. Also reverse headstock looks very cool.

The plastic pickguard is unnecesery and I would remove it, if there wasnt relief hole beneath it. Also some quallity nut would be nice. Guitar have a litlle bit of neck dive, but I can live with that.

Pros:

- great value for money

- great looks

- pickups sounds amazing

- great neck

Cons:

- litlle neck dive specially when playing in stand position

- plastic pickguard cover

- plastic nut

I would recommend this guitar to all who wants to try more agressive version of a tele. For that price you can't go wrong.

Definitely different

Not going to lie, the reverse headstock is going to take some getting used to. Volume knob is stripped, and the nut was a little rough (some gentle filing solved that) and the ferrules are uneven to say the least. All that being said, this little youknowwhat kicks some serious butt. The neck is buttery smooth, if a little chunky, The pickups are the star of the show. They eat distortion for breakfast. Great value. (That headstock though).

Great value for money.

the guitar is fine and overall i'm very happy.

only flaw i noticed was the string ferrules weren't lined up well at all but they were functional and i'm not the kind of person to be looking at crooked ferrules all day especially as the guitar plays well and sounds great.

the guitar didn't have the tummy cut but i'll soon fix that.

apart from those minor niggles all good, hardware, pickups, neck and frets etc. all very acceptable, i only stopped playing it because the oxidisation on the strings was wearing off on my fingers and beginning to stain the maple.

i think i will buy me another Harley Benton before too long.