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Harley Benton R-458MN WH Progressive Series

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8-String Electric Guitar

  • Progressive Series
  • Body: Poplar
  • Bolt-on neck: Maple
  • Fingerboard: Maple
  • Fingerboard inlays: Offset dots
  • Neck profile: Speed D
  • ABS nut
  • Frets: 24 Medium Jumbo
  • Fingerboard radius: 355 mm (14")
  • Nut width: 54 mm (2.126")
  • Scale: 673 mm (26.496")
  • Pickups: 2 Hi-Gain humbuckers (neck and bridge)
  • 1 Volume and 1 tone control
  • 3-Way toggle switch
  • DLX bridge
  • Black hardware
  • DLX die-cast machine heads
  • Tuning: F# / B / E / A / D / G / B / E
  • Factory strings: HB .009/.011/.016/.024/.032/.042/.054/.065
  • Colour: White, high-gloss
  • Suitable gig bag: Art. 142777, suitable case: Art. 212516 (both not included)
Available since August 2017
Item number 419530
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour White
Body Poplar
Top -
Neck maple
fret board maple
Frets 24
Scale Length 673 mm
Pickup HH
Tremolo No
Incl. Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
$158
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DUCKYLOL 06.04.2022
Bought this guitar for a taste of 8 string with the idea of replacing down the road. What I didn't expect was how playable it was out of the box.

Action is great and the 3way switch and knobs feel fairly solid.
Pickup casings are plastic-y and light feeling.
Neck feels amazing, lovely finish though you may need to oil your fretboard as mine was dry (which is to be expected at most price points)
Fretting is decent and the nut fits well, though I did have some roughness on the higher frets so will be giving those a polishing.
Machine heads are definitely something I will be replacing soon, they reflect the price point fairly accurately.

Once I stretched the strings for a few minutes the guitar stayed in tune and has continued to do so.
The pickups are much brighter than I had anticipated (to my delight) and seem to lend themselves to a clean tone. The difference between bridge/split/neck tones aren't a million miles apart which is nice.

Features: 3 STARS
Has only the basics (2 HB, 1 volume and 1 tone knob, no locking tuners etc.)

Sound: 4 STARS Each pickup has a distinct tone and they're hot enough to play anything.

Quality: Build quality was much better than I expected. Great action, decent fretting and alignment seems fine. The fretboard is very dry and some of the higher frets do need polishing.

TOTAL: 5 STARS All these for the price of 158 euro is just insane to me. I wouldn't blink if a 1,000 euro guitar had the same quality control.

A Side note, delivery came in 8 working days and the customer service were fast and helpful when I needed to amend my order. Very light packaging is something to consider.
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This is actually very good
ynq1 28.05.2020
14th fret onwards were kinda rough for my guitar so you either break it in with the factory strings or polish them just before you install a new set of strings.

Tuning the 8th string F# down to E loses its clarity and definition so you might want to get a thicker gauge than the factory .74 gauge like an .80.
Maybe changing the pickups can also fix this problem but keep in mind it's a 26.5". It remains very snappy if you leave it at F#.

Fastest mod you can do out of the box is to wire the pickups into series.
Here's the color coding:
Red- Hot output
White- coil tap
Black- coil tap
Green+bare- ground

The red wire is soldered together with the white wire on the selector so what you want to do is to remove the white wire. The black wire is also soldered to the back of the pot. Remove it.
Solder white and black together and tape them or use heatshrink tubing. Something better would be buying a metric size(8mm) push-pull potentiometer and solder it there.
US size potentiometers require reaming of the holes to 9.5mm.
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Plays better than expected
Tony _Two_Tones 15.12.2022
To start I messed up my order and ended up with both this model and the fanfret version.

I would say that the overall feel and quality is better than I expected. The knobs and selection switch felt good. Overall the neck feels nice in the hand, I have several 6 string Jackson’s and this felt comfortable to play coming from those. It played good right out of the box, but I would lower the action a little.

Really the only negative thing I have to say is the tuners are not good and tuning stability is an issue, but if you end up liking the guitar it’s an easy inexpensive upgrade. The pickups are also not the best either, they are ok for seeing if you will like playing an 8 string and not having to pay a lot to find out.

Now the difference between the two models in my opinion is, I think the pickups on this model are a little better, but not by much. The biggest difference is obviously the other model has the fanned frets and is multiscale, and you can definitely tell a difference in string tension playing on the smaller strings on this model, they feel tighter in comparison. It feels much more comfortable for me playing the multiscale, but the fanned frets might not be your thing, I really only notice it up on the first few frets and maybe like 19-24. I would say they are both good guitars worth the money if you want to see if an 8 string is right for you. I think if you plan on trying to record or anything like that you would need to upgrade tuners and pickups but other than that plays great and has a very playable neck.
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Good guitar but...
Vyacheslav Bukharov 28.09.2020
I bought it to try 8 string guitars before i'm buing something expensive. Got my package in two weeks with no damages on finish.
First impression is well made intrument, but you need to tune it and invest some money and time.
Neck is awesome, its very comfortable to play. But heel of the neck was not flat so i placed 0.7mm pick under heel to compensate angle. After this i can adsut height of strings.
Pickups are ok. Out of box bridge pickup was vey noisy, i thought it was bad quality, but as turned out ground cable unsoldered. Don't know its delivery porblem or so it was in the store.
Tuners are cheap and i planned to replace them. Not very responsive and not hold tune well.
Other furniture good don't need to be replaced.
Overall it's good intrument to try 8 strings.
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