Harley Benton ST-20MN LH CA

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Electric Guitar

  • Left hand model
  • Basswood body
  • Bolt-on neck: Maple
  • Fretboard: Maple
  • Dot fretboard inlays
  • Neck profile: Modern C
  • 22 Frets
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • Dual action truss rod
  • Pickup: 3 ST style single coils
  • Volume control and 2 tone controls
  • 5-Way toggle switch
  • Chrome hardware
  • Synchronised tremolo system
  • Die-cast machine heads
  • Ex-factory stringing: .009" - .042"
  • Colour: Candy Apple Red
Available since October 2019
Item number 464858
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Shape, Design ST-Style
Colour Red
Soundboard Basswood
Neck Maple
Fretboard Maple
number of strings 6
Frets 22
Scale 648 mm
Pickup System SSS
Tremolo Yes
Incl. Cases No
Incl. Gigbag No
Top None
$81
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Love this guitar!
Jan @ Thomann 26.02.2020
At first I bought this guitar because as a lefty I simply wanted to have a red guitar. But I am so pleased with it that now I'm actually using it for live performance.

I ordered on Saturday, delivery was on Tuesdaynoon, I did the setup in the afternoon and in the evening I used it for live performance! Great service Thomann!

I have both versions, one with roseacer fretboard and one with maple fretboard. The roseacer one feels a bit slimmer, but both feel very comfortable and smooth.

The Candy Apple finish of the body is simply stunning.

Action and playability were OK out of the box, but I anyway did a full setup and got a perfect action and playability.

Electronics work well, even though the tone pots have a very limited range.

The tuners have some tolerance, but keep the guitar pretty well in tune.

I have other guitars of a much higher price range, but this is the one I keep on playing the most.

Mods I did
I replaced the pickguard with an aged pearl one, which makes the guitar look more rich.
Shielding.
Setup: truss rod, saddle height and intonation.

pros
price, unbelievably low
aesthetics, really beautiful instrument, flawless finish
sounds really good through a zoom G1Xon
light weight (3,4kg)
easy playability, low action
general feeling, it feels very nice, you just don't want to put it down

cons
tuners are not so good
small range of tone pods
no shielding

All in all, I highly recommend this guitar.
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A Strat for £65... I mean to say...
Tony P 12.02.2020
I bought this at the same time as my TE-90 QM on an impulse, and thus avoided paying the £10 postage.
Firstly, I'm giving this guitar 5 stars purely based on the fact that it is unbelievable value for money. It is a beautiful looking guitar, with a lovely finish on the body. The frets are fairly smooth and the fret ends are neatly finished, although the wood on the neck surface is slightly rough, which doesn't affect general playing (like bar chords for example) but is noticeable when bending strings. One criticism: the volume pot isn't too bad, but the tone pots hardly have any affect at all.
HOWEVER...
This is a brand new, well made, and beautiful-looking Stratocaster copy for a handful of change, and would be a very worthwhile purchase as a single guitar or as addition to a collection. Personally I'm going to keep this long-term, so will be upgrading it over the coming weeks. But even unchanged it really is a lot of guitar for the money; when you think that an American Stratocaster would probably be about 20 times the price or more, it puts it into perspective.
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We who are about to strat salute you.
Rushtones 15.05.2023
Starting off I've been looking into buying a cheap strat for a while having previous bad experience with two other brands which I will not mention names.

Firstly, straight out of the box, a quick tune and instantly playable with smooth fretwork and a comfortable neck and have managed to get the action a little lower which was really low out of the box. intonation was almost perfect. Literally 15 minutes and this guitar was fantastic.

Secondly the pickups. What have you put in this little gem, there wonderful I have played expensive strats and they don't sound as good as these. I've run cleans to crunch to driven blues to hard Rock and these pups really hold up well no squealing etc...

In conclusion I love this guitar I can't believe the price. Its always a pleasure to pickup and play and captures the tone,feel and essence of what a stratocaster is with quality underdog vibes. Great product for a beginner or an experienced player like myself (29yrs) who's gained quite a collection of axes over the years.

My only negative point would be that the machine heads are a little bit rough but provide great tuning stability nonetheless.
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You can't go better than this
Alfredo Musmeci 31.01.2022
For this price, you can't get a nicer looking guitar than this, pickups are decent, electronics are right.

The only con is the fretboard: Sharp edges, typical HB dryness (:-7), but nothing you can improve it at home.

As I mentioned earlier, the color is a dream and that with maple neck, is a killer comobo, yeah I'll do some improvs in the tuning/bridge department but you totally can use it the way it arrives, finger bleeding haha style, but you'll get used to:-7
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