Harley Benton TE-80 NT Deluxe Series Reviews

Harley Benton TE-80 NT Deluxe

A very substantial guitar, on the heavy side, but you certainly know that you have something build for the road around your shoulder. It looks positively beautiful, even my wife commented on it and could not believe price. There is a slight flaw on the body just above the jack plug socket but as my dear mother would have said ' it would do a blind man good to see it. You must realise that it is not a hand-made bespoke instument. However it sounds good, looks good and nobody would believe the price... so I won't tell them. A cracking Tele.

Disappointment turns to delight

First of all delivery. Order placed 09/01/15, delivered to the UK this morning, 14/01/15. Delivery tracking was first class.

Disappointment. For some reason I thought that this guitar was in kit form. I was looking forward to building it but it arrived already built. Delight in that I could play it straight away. It needed a bit of a set up. Neck was fine but intonation was out and the bridge saddles were set as high as they could go. I adjusted these quite low and there is no fret buzz anywhere. Neck is faster than my strat and plays great and I just can't believe the sound. Installation of electrics needs a bit of attention by QA as one of the wires had a dry joint on a pot. That was easily resoldered though.

Over all. A great buy and a great guitar.

Fantastic Value!

A cheapo version from Aldi cured my innate dislike of Teles. I was hooked but left wanting a string-thru' body and a top E string that didn't slip off the neck. I decided on either a Baja or a Madcat/Prinz, but found a Korean Fender LAT with a wonderful birdseye maple neck, and that should have been that. BUT I stumbled across rave US reviews of the HB TE-80 NT Deluxe - Americans were importing them and swapping pickguards to make Madcat clones. Its unbelievable that this weighty beast costs little more than the Aldi one, but is built and plays so like the Fender. Now for a new pickguard...

a good wee guitar

this is a great buy had to adjust the action but not a bad little player at all

Nice Wild Cat Copy

Really nice finish on this guitar and looks a lot better than it should for the low price.

Set up was good out of the box.

No sharp fret ends and neck feels good.

Machine heads are good and hold tune well.

Plays real well and has great sustain. It is a heavy lump of wood to hang round your neck though.

The pickups are pretty good and have a really good clean tone. They really do not need upgrading but note this is a pretty good copy of a Wildcat ( I cannot justify the cost of a real one) and has Stratocaster type pickups.

harley benton te-80 deluxe guitar

the guitar has a beautiful finish but unfortunately there is some impact damage to the front, rear top quadrant the size of a two pence piece. There is no damage to the packaging, I will repair it myself.