Harley Benton TE-90FLT VW Deluxe Series Reviews

Pleased

Guitar is custom shop quality...crossed the ocean and passed thru a bunch of hands and was 'in tune' when i received it. i dont mean close I mean IN TUNE....tuners on this are fine...pickups are wonderful...need to be on more Harleys.

Impressive

The quality and tone are quite impressive for me. Easy to play and it looks cool!. I would recommend it for the person who loves Fender style but with more cost-effective for the gear!

Unbelievable for the price.

Great deal for the price Finish is flawless,Playability is great.Pickups are powerful enough.One slight problem was the nut is cut slightly high ,not enough to be an issue . Have had it fora couple of months and still have not cut it lower. Anyways have now purchased a HB 35 plus,can't wait for it to arrive!!!

Harley Benton TE-90FLT VW Deluxe Series

If you can handle the reverse head stock yea go for it. It has a lovely slick neck feel. It certainly gives a few extra telecaster sounds. Great for finger picking. Hey there is a tone control unlike the Cabranita thank you for that Harley Benton. I changed the pick guard to tortoise shell and it looks supper. It is a guitar that i pick up ever day out of my collection and play so there is something good in there. I have been playing for 45 years and i am particular about the finish and build quality . The finish quality on this guitar is good a creamy see through to the grain look. Unusual but nice, All in good value,,,,

Very disappointed in the quality

What is a really fantastic sounding and looking guitar is sadly let down by the quality of some of the components. On receiving the guitar, one of the string trees fell out. The second one has also now popped out too. Rather than return it I will endeavour to fix them myself. I had considered buying another Harley Benton telecaster but won’t now. On the plus side the Roswell pickups are excellent.

Guitar loses magic after a while.

Sound is not very impressive and distortion lacks soul.

Tuners can?t properly hold the tuning of the strings. I broke one of the tuners when I bumped into the wall with it. My fault of course, but still can?t say it?s build to resist.

Can?t say I expected better for the price.

Also, the empty chamber to relieve weight throws guitar off balance, and you can feel the absence of wood under the pickguard.

Guitar is pretty, though. Believe with some decent tuners and pickups would be stage worthy.

Would not buy again.

Same as Filtertron pickups, measured and compared.

After researching different Tele and Gretsch clones, single coils and humbuckers, I found optimal point between different worlds, something universal.

Pros: Guitar sounds very clear on clean with no hum and has something "brand" in its sound, after what I decided to measure frequency responce on both pickups using white noise and multimeter. I've found 99,5% coincidence whith Filtertrons (AC/DC rythm tone) in all parameters, even resonance frequency peaks. I have Ibanez RG-8 with great sustain, compared to Gibson's. That little Tele has sustain compared to my 8-string wide neck guitar, and far more sustain than my old 1991 Japanese Charvel STX Custom. I was very impressed. Frets are polished, neck is smooth and total feeleng of guitar is frendly for fingerstyle, strings do not out of tune when You push accords on the neck. I think it depends on coming by default strings (9-48 combined d'Addario set). Dirty sounds on bridge are also very good, close to EMG 81, but a bit less fizzy. Neck is good for overdriven solos whithout annoing grit, very careful sound, neck also is useble to play riffs. On both pickups You get a very good clean sound for plaing acoustic-like rythm patterns. All three pickup's combinations are great and useful for clean and overdrive sounds. And one thing more: this guitar has phenomenal distortion sound beeng dropped! That's why I bought it.

Cons: It was needed to tighten the tuner's screws on the bottom and tighten the nuts on the top sides of the neck for guitar to stay in tune. After it was done all came to normal. Tone potentiometer is ALPHA, Volume pot is standard cheap. I think I need to swap them, ALPHA is very good long-live non-crispy pot, it should be on Volume position. Pot's knobes are good-looking, but

do not hold well on, I put two balls of paper inside the knobs so that they do not fail.

Averall I recommend this guitar for every style of music, from jazz to metal. It sits perfect in the mix.

Unfortunate

It is unfortunate, it seems I am the 2nd person who received this guitar and wrote a review with the pickup cutouts being "square" and ugly. It really does take away from the beauty of the guitar, making it look like it was messed with by an incompetent luthier or a noob end-user. ie : me

The ash body is fine, the neck is great, the pickups are charming, but now the gaps around them distract. The bridge pickup isn't actually centered under the strings, being a little too much to the right.

Wish it looked as good as it sounds. Options? Return it, though with the world-wide mess this is a painful thing. Cover it ? Technically Fiter'Tron style pickups can have a mount pickup ring, but on this design, the bridge pickup is bordered on 2 sides by the neck and the pickguard.

Looks like I will be chatting with support.

Added 1 star as the Service department responded well to my criticism and made things wright.

Great is all I can say. Seventh Hb Guitar Ive bought and quality is the best out of the bunch. However there is something I like about each one and have no problem just grabbing one and doing my own thing. The neck and PUPs are outstanding on these TE90FLTs. I have two Vintage amps. '65 Fender Pro Reverb and '62 Ampeg Reverberocket and they both love the Roswell PUPs. So if you know anything about the amps i use you will know they are true to whats put in them.

Will have to go back............

I really wanted this guitar to be a good one. I received one which wasn’t very good at all. Didn’t stay in tune..............and the low E string touches the pick up from around the 13 fret onwards. Cannot adjust as the pickup screw on that side. Has a a screw with no inner head on it. So back it will be going

Since the body is properly shielded, there is no noise and it sounds like a happy filtertron. I wish it was a little more wood grain color because it's too white. But even though it's so cheap, it could be my main guitar.

Good value

Despite receiving a damaged toggle switch, the sound quality for the amount you pay for this guitar seems to be suitable for this price range. I enjoy playing it.

Great looking low cost guitar

I used to play guitar some years ago and recently wanted to get back into it. I wanted an electric I could use with headphones or on low volume and didn't want to spend a lot in case I didn't stick with the practise.

The guitar seems great, really happy with it, especially for the money.

It stays in tune really well. I practise most days and can usually take it off the stand and it is still in tune form the previous day.

The pickups are quiet no loud hum or buzz when it is plugged in.

There is a good range of sounds from the 2 pickups, it plays well and seems well set up.

The only negatives I have are small.

The nut is only plastic and the strings seemed a bit tight in the nut at first but I have restrung it a few times now and put a bit of graphite in and it seems fine. The strings are fairly close to the edge of the frets and sometimes the E string can get pushed off the fret when I'm changing chords quickly. (admittedly this is partly my playing.)

Just right

Good stuff at a good price = True value

Excellent Value to Price

Guitar arrived intact, though the outer box had some moderate damage. Fortunately, the inner box was good. There were no flaws in the finish of the guitar and the action was good out of the box. The tone on these Filtertron pickup equipped guitars is unique in a good way. Watch Henning Pauly on YouTube for comprehensive demos. Overall, very happy with this purchase.

Great deal

it's really great guitar, but needed some corrections to work perfectly!

This is a great guitar

I ordered guitar and arrived in Japan in 2 weeks.

It is a beautiful guitar. Weight is 3.6 kg.

It is a cheap peg but the accuracy is good (although I replaced it with GOTOH).

The pickup has a low power but a bright and good sound.

I replaced the capacitors, volume and tone pots, wiring, input jacks and tuning pegs. Later, I made some adjustments.

This makes the guitar even better.

I am very happy to buy this guitar.

The price is also cheap!

Excellent!

This is my second purchase of a Harley Benton and once again I couldn't be happier!

Great guitar at a great price... It arrived quickly, in excellent condition, and almost completely in tune. It was setup perfectly, and I'm impressed with the quality control.

I'll definitely be buying more!

So much fun

I can't believe that a guitar at this price can be so much fun an so easy to play. Once I've picked it up I can hardly put it down. A little setup needed but no more than adjusting the truss rod a little and lowering the action slightly.

It's a breeze to play, the sound from those pickups is perfect for hours of noodling about.

It's a four word review really: IT'S SO MUCH FUN!!!

Good alternative guitar for the money

If you want to get that rockabilly sound for less, this a great option. I've got single coil guitars and humbuckers guitars, so whilst looking for something different this caught my eye and the price tag was too good to pass.

You might need to do a bit of set-up work to get the guitar the way you want it, but in general it plays fine out the box and sounds really cool, like a tele, but less nosiy and a bit thicker.

This guitar makes a good tweakers guitar as well, with some options to change out the electronics and hardware at a later date to get a high-end feeling guitar for less than a third of the cost.