Harley Benton SC-Custom Plus EMG BCF

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Harley Benton SC-Custom Plus EMG BCF
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Aliens For God 14.06.2021
The SC-Custom Plus EMG BCF has an amazing sound!!
this guitar surprised me all around, the best guitar for the money by far!!
Harley Benton has treated me with nothing but respect as well, just want to make sure I get the second guitar ASAP! The back ordered
Blue Flame CST-24T P90!! All in all super satisfied!!
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Unreal And Excellent
Juaquin 27.10.2022
This is an excellent example of a modern Les Paul guitar.
3 knob layout, lightweight and sculpted heel are the biggest benefits of such a configuration.
the SC Custom + achieves all this and more.
The Emg hot 70 are a great pickup in this guitar, really good tone and attack.
Harley Benton brand guitars continue to impress, this is my 3rd, and the fit finish and quality control and setup on this particular one is perfect.
ready to play out of the box, didnt even need action adjustment. For the money its a no brainer. Get one!
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My beloved SC giutar
G. Arden 06.12.2022
I have had the guitar for over a year. It is my favorite one.
The guitar is just amazing. I can't find a word to describe it.

Sounds amazing it has EMG active pickups. Pickups are great. Sounds fantastic on cleans and on distortion, even high gains.
Looks stunning. The paintwork, binding, and fretwork are perfect.

Locking tuners are very good, Graphtec nut, quite comfortable neck profile.
I had to adjust the action of the strings myself. It was easy due to Thoman's videos.

I had a problem with the toggle switch, but it was easily solved by cleaning it with a contact cleaner.
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Unparalled at this price.
Mjf77 26.04.2022
Playable right out the box. Intonation was spot on. Black cherry flame was gorgeous. Checked out alot of youtube reviews before purchasing. I am a believer. This guitar won't disappoint.
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Very nice indeed
JN76 20.11.2022
After returning a HB CST due to som QC issues, I ordered the Custom Plus. A definite step up. No complaints what so ever. Finish is A+ and it was setup pretty darn nicely from the factory. I wish they made a "premium" CST too as it is a slightly comfier shape for me.

Ended up selling this because I didn’t bond with the LP shape. As far as sound, this was my favourite of all my guitars and in reality it was better made than my Schecter Nick Johnston (crooked neck from the factory). The only new guitar that I’ve had that needed nothing else but tuning from the box.
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Quality is not very good
metamodern 08.02.2023
Overall the instrument is very good. It's my first time I have a guitar with locking tuners and they are fine. Can't actually compare the sound of pickups to anything, but it's alright overall.

There are a lot of concern to delivery and to the quality of this guitar.
About the delivery: usually the first thing you notice when opening something new is the look and the smell. You know, like a brand new book has it's own specific fresh paper smell, or a freshly printed newspaper. However, when I opened this guitar I felt the smell of ...chips. Like Chitos or Doritos, or Lays. It was very specific. At first I thought maybe it's the smell of the wood, cause it was definetely coming from fretboard, but I don't think that a wooden fretboard should smell anything except wood. So 1/10 points for this to the person who packed my delivery. I still smell it when playing, can't get rid of this smell.

Now to the guitar itself. The most insignificant part was the "looks" part. Plastic is not high quality and I had to cut of different pieces in pickup frames to make it look accurate(there were extra pieces of plastic, production defect). Then there was another piece of plastic in binding of neck, near neck pickup, had to peel it of as well. Then I had to peel the grooves in nut a bit, cause they looked too sharp. Obviously, noone did the postproduction processing.
Now to the things that I could not fix from not that improtant to very important.
1. There is a tiny tiny crack on the edge of the body. I'd share a picture if I could. You don't really see it and it doesn't bother at all, but just as a matter of fact it's there and something did it, either during packing or during transportation.
2. The knobs are not exactly centered. Couldn't really tell if it's a potentiometer not centered or the knob itself, or is it a tech dept which is caused by the screw in know, but yeah. You feel it when you use it.
3. The battery cap on the back is not closing to a flat state.(!). This actually shocked me a bit, how is it possible that that piece of plastic even passed test. It clicks into place, but the battery is too high to close the lid(the cap) on the sides. But even without battery it's not closing, the lid is too wide for the hole.
4. THE BIGGEST ISSUE with guitar WAS the electronics. I couldn't use neck pickup most of the time, I enable the switch to neck position and it's silent. I almost hear a little bit of sound coming out though. And I can't tell if it's the pickup issue, the switch issue, knobs issue. It just sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. And it really pisses me off, especially when I'm not just jamming, but playing along song and I need to switch the pickup, it was working 5 minutes ago and now there's no sound!
Let me be more specific here: The issue is not only with the neck, but with bridge as well. Guitar can work in following modes:
a) both pickups work normally
b) neck not working, bridge works.
c) neck works, bridge not working.
In the middle position when you have mode b or mode c you hear only one of the pickups. the other one is silent(I tested with touching metal screwdriver to both of it while in middle position).
After a year of playing like this I disassembled the switch section and cleaned contacts. Now it works fine.

Nut anyway, I'm not an electronics expert, it's just a coinsidence that I knew a bit of how it is supposed to work. why do I have to fix it or to spend extra money to give it to master if I didn't know? 0/10 to thomann for this quality check.

Visually the guitar is great, feels great. If not this issues I'd give it 4/5.
Why not 5/5? A couple of personal reasons:
- it's really heavy, I won't recommend it for a beginner, go buy a strat or superstrat instead. If you sit long enough it hurts your leg(not joking)
- Would be better to make a matte neck, like ESP does.
- the neck is really thick, not always comfy to play especially after being used to playing on superstrats with thin necks.
- magnets in pickups tend to rust if you don't clean them up after playing. (My hands are sweating and that caused rusting, but I removed it with vinegar and it's okay now). But that's probably any pickup works like that.
- the pins are not the best, could be wider. I use bass strap for it and had to put straplocks cause the strap was falling off.
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What a guitar !
Dannyhawke 06.06.2023
This is now my go too guitar , it's an absolute beast and is just stunning

Had a pro set up done on it as I do with every guitar I buy and plays nicer than guitars 5 x the price
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