Harley Benton HWY-25BKS Progressive Series

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Harley Benton HWY-25BKS Progressive Series
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Not a bad guitar, but some issues
vortaenius 04.07.2021
Overall, I was satisfied with this guitar as a fixer-upper, but abandoned the project after a year.

Pros:
- I love the string tension with the tuners on the bottom of the headstock; it makes for good playability and looks cool.
- The neck is super playable! I personally love how chunky and flat it feels. If you're used to a more rounded neck, then this guitar might not be for you.
- The sound is good, but not great. It sounds a bit hollow or bland.
- The matte finish is nice.

Cons:
- It's a very heavy guitar. The first time I picked it up I was a bit disappointed. I once owned a PRS guitar which was really hefty, too, but here it seems unnecessary.
- The nut was awful, reducing playability and tuning stability. I ended up replacing it, but had a difficult time finding the correct nut. After some failed attempts I decided to abandon this project. It was more hassle than it was worth as a beginner modder. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday.
- The tone pot is flimsy and 'came loose' after half a year. It's now barely usable.
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Good beginner guitar!
TheIntermediatePlayer 22.12.2022
The guitar it self is good as a beginner/intermediate guitar, but a few things you have to keep in mind the knobs of the guitar are a bit low quality. There is a bit of a buzzing sound when playing with high distortion but it could be because of all the electronics around me. but overall great guitar for it's price.
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Cracked headstock
Jay N 12.01.2022
For the money it's ok if your a beginner, I wanted a cheap guitar to mod and under closer inspection and stripping the paint off I noticed a considerable crack in the head stock all the way through and along every tuning peg. Other than that a good guitar
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It's horrible
Reviewer21 16.04.2023
Don't buy it it's horrible there's grounding issues the teem system is loud and screws keep falling out
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A good start but gradual decay in too shorter time period.
Reeceekins 05.02.2021
I have owned this for a few months now and what started as an odd tremolo effect in my pick-ups that eventually went away, degraded into crazy bad microphonic feedback problems later down the line. Thomann have since remedied the situation with me in an agreeable manor but just a heads up if you consider buying this particular item. Harley Benton are actually unparalleled for their price point and everything else about the guitar was exquisite, I just think this was a bad example of when cheap goes wrong.
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3+
Mooel 14.10.2019
The weakest sides of this guitar are:
Finish – it's made so poor that it holds your fingerprints (even if you washed your hands twice) and it screws the look of the guitar really bad.
Tuning – it's pretty unstable, always need to tune it after a couple of tight riffs, but okay, manageable.
Frets – they are rounded not that good too and scratch your fret playing hand, not to cut off it, but not that comfortable too.
The strong side is sound – it is pretty solid, no doubt there. Clear sound without noises, sounds good on distortion, really nice.

Overall – okay+ value for 100 euro + shipping.
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Amazing guitar for the price
Jay16 20.06.2017
This guitar I got for only £85 brand new!!! I couldn't believe it either. But this a great guitar and the lefty head stock makes it feel good, I don't know why but i like that feature.

Even though it is amazing for the price. There are only a few flaws with the guitar I got.
1. The volume knob didn't work right. It only was full volume or none at all which is kind of annoying, but it's not that bad.
2. There is evidence of filler for the fret board where the grain is quite wide, but has little effect on playing.
3. Some of the frets had dents in which catch the strings when trying to bend. It's kind of annoying at times when I'm trying to solo and it just nicks the string and makes it twang.

Overall this is a great guitar for the price. A great first guitar and the Trve Kvlt matte black finish and fret inlay make it amazing to look at.
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well assembled
√room 09.06.2019
sound is one dimensional and a bit dull, so a let down for me, but the quality feels there.
Might be worth a change of gears, bridge, pups, etc.
As is the case with these cheap instruments, the neck will be chuncky.
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Harley Benton HWY-25BKS Progressive Series