Harley Benton CLP-15E Flame Koa Exotic

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Steel- String Guitar With Pickup

Design: Parlor with Dovetail Neckjoint
Top: solid selected AA-grade Hawaiian bar koa
Scalloped X-Bracing
Back and sides: mahogany
Neck: mahogany
Fretboard: Pau Ferro
Acrylic Pearl Snowflake fretboard inlays
Neck profile: C
Dual Action Trussrod
Scale length: 628 mm
Bone nut
Nut width: 45 mm
18 Frets
Open headstock
Black binding
Pau Ferro bridge
Black Die Cast machine heads with Mushroom buttons
Pickup: Sonicore with Fishman Presys II preamp
Factory stringing: Daddario XTAPB1253 .012 - .053
Colour: Natural Matt

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3 3-Year Thomann Warranty

available since April 2021

Item number 501218

sales unit 1 piece(s)

Model Parlor

Top Massive Koa

Back And Sides Mahogany

Cutaway No

Fretboard Pao Ferro

Nut width in mm 45,00 mm

Pickup System Yes

Color Natural

Case No

Incl. Gigbag No

B-Stock from $306 available

$359

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Harley Benton CLP-15E Flame Koa Exot B-Stock
May have slight traces of use

$306

Harley Benton CLP-15E Flame Koa Exoti w/Bag

$375

Harley Benton CLP-15E Flame Koa Exoti Bundle

$469

6 Customer ratings

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4.7 / 5

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Beautiful and nice-sounding parlor guitar

Emil Vakhitov 28.12.2021

I have it for almost 3 months now.

The only issue there is in my guitar is that the 4-6 strings somehow influence each other's tuning: when you tune the 6th string, the 5th string goes a bit sharp, and vice versa. Anyway, it is not so noticeable and can be dealt with. That's why I gave only 4 stars for quality.

Other than that, I cannot find any issue with this guitar. No sharp fret edges, frets are decently polished. No glue residue, the upper nut is cut well has no sharp edges. It stays in tune well - I have been keeping it in a gigbag for about a week, and it was still in tune when I started playing it again.
The sound is pleasant for my liking, quite bright, although it lacks bass frequencies, but I guess it is expected on the guitar of this size.
And it is just a beautiful instrument, nice wood grain.
What I also would like to see on it is an upper strap button - there is just one of them. That's why I gave only 4 stars for features.

Wonderful guitar overall.

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Very nice

Beefy nacho 14.11.2022

I won't get into to much story details, but this is my first Harley Benton. I do have other great brands to compare to, and my opinion is that for this price it sounds amazing, and has an interesting bluesy sound from the Koa parlor style. Love the extra width on the neck. Set up is right on, in a nutshell it's hard to put down. Comparable to very top known brands, very well built. I will be looking forward to putting expensive strings on to see how the sound and feel changes, the strings put on aren't what I'm used to.

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Beautiful Koa

Glandaker 10.03.2023

Very well made and great quality. Very durable and great travel guitar. Electronics are great

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Klingt super

tessi8 27.04.2021

Die Gitarre ist wirklich gut verarbeitet. Das matte Finish sieht super aus und der Hals lässt sich dadurch sehr angenehm spielen. Die Mechaniken halten die Stimmung stabil. Ich werde sie aus optischen Gründen aber noch gegen das Pendant von Schaller (Lyra) tauschen. Auch die Bridge-Pins aus Plastik werden noch durch welche aus Ebenholz getauscht. Sattel und Brücke sind sauber gearbeitet. Die Bundstäbchen sind schön poliert. Der Pickup verrichtet guten Dienst.
Leider ist die massive Koa-Decke bei meinem Exemplar nicht so wirklich geflammt wie auf dem Produktfoto, aber trotzdem sehr schön anzusehen und Holz ist nunmal ein Naturprodukt. Der laminierte Mahagonikorpus sind dafür bei mir sehr schön geflammt :-) Ich war beim ersten Spielen sehr vom weichen, warmen Klang überrascht. Ähnlich wie bei meiner Martin D15M, natürlich aufgrund der Größe nicht ganz so voll und etwas komprimierter.

Eine schöne leichte und sehr angenehm zu spielende Parlor Gitarre (Diese Größe sollte jeder in seinem Arsenal haben).

Mein Wunsch an Thomann/Harley Benton: Bitte mehr von solchen mittelpreisigen Gitarren, vor allem vollmassiv. Preis-Leistung stimmt!

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