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Harley Benton CLA-15M SolidWood

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Acoustic Guitar

  • Custom Line Solid Wood Series
  • Style: Auditorium
  • Top: solid Okoume
  • Back and sides: solid Okoume
  • Neck: Okoume
  • Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
  • SnowFlake fingerboard inlays
  • Neck profile: Oval C
  • Scale: 643 mm (25.3")
  • Nut width: 43 mm (1.69")
  • Bone nut
  • 20 Frets
  • Pau Ferro bridge with bone saddle
  • Deluxe Antique Copper open tuners
  • Factory strings: D'Addarío XTAPB1253 .012 - .053 (Art. 471307)
  • Colour: Natural Matte
Available since July 2021
Item number 505980
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Model 000
Top Solid Okume
Back and Sides Solid Okume
Cutaway No
Fretboard Pau Ferro
Nut width in mm 43,00 mm
Frets 643
Pickup No
Colour Natural
Incl. Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
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Very, very happy!
JimmyB1964 22.06.2022
Lots of other reviewers have said this is a great guitar for the money. This is a great guitar, full stop!
I'm going to make direct comparisons with the Martin 00015M, on which it's based. The fact that the 2 guitars even stand comparison says it all.

Weight, balance and sustain are all comparable. For me, there was always a slight dead spot on the G string of the Martin, but not on the HB.
The finishes on the Martin are better quality, as you'd expect, and there is a more uniform colour to the mahogany, which almost certainly means a superior cut of wood was used, but I don't hear those differences in the playing.
On delivery, both guitars were pretty well set up. I had a full pro setup on the Martin but I haven't done that yet for the Harley. I'm not sure it needs it!
I found no issues with frets etc, although I found 2 tiny, and I mean tiny, blemishes on the Harley headstock. The Martin, as you'd expect, was faultless.
The most important bit - playability! Both are very light guitars, and just beg to be picked up and played. Which am I enjoying more? The Harley Benton! It just feels right for me, although I realise that's very subjective.

Which should you buy? Both are solid wood, and will only improve through time, but I suspect the Martin, with it's superior timbers and that headstock logo is the one that will gain in value. That said, if I was offered the choice of the two at the same price, and I knew I would never sell it or give it away, I think I'd pick the Harley Benton.
Now, take into account what these two actually cost, and I think it's an easy choice.
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Amazing
Pingpongunderpants 25.07.2022
I have just received my all-solid CLA-15M - I also own a CLA-15M none solid - the difference in sound is like night and day. The all-solid has a wonderful bottom end, crisp highs, and an overall smoother tone, beautifully finished too, has more of a natural look to the wood then the non-solid version, I cannot find any faults whatsoever....Amazing!! and for £200 WOW!! I can't wait for it to mature.
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Anonymous 16.12.2021
Excellent quality product. Beautiful craftsmanship, great sound. Very impressive for the price.
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Great guitar for any level
Davey2404 22.11.2024
I have a couple of acoustics both into 4 figures and thought I'd give this a go as I was thinking about putting in a resonance system but wanted a solid wood guitar I've seen these compared to the martin 000 15m and I'm not sure about comments like that usually I just take them with a pinch of salt..but after receiving this guitar I can see why it would be compared with the martin. I have a om16 and honestly this is every bit as good and 1/6 of the price. If I had to pick fault the only things I could mention would be the machine heads personally I didn't like them so put some better quality ones on and the pick guard so I removed it but this is a really serious guitar for any level of proficiency don't write it off because of the name on the headstock..I absolutely love playing this guitar and finding it hard to put it down in fact I'd go as far as to say I wish I'd been able to buy one of these before I paid out as much as I did for the other two I would have saved myself a lot of money..oh and changed my mind about the resonance system just can't bring myself to make a hole in this guitar and honestly it really doesn't need anything else..
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