Harley Benton ST-62CC Inca Silver

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Electric Guitar

  • Body: Basswood
  • Bolt-on neck: Vintage caramelised maple
  • Fingerboard: Laurel
  • Dot fingerboard inlays
  • Neck profile: C
  • Fingerboard radius: 305 mm (12")
  • Scale: 648 mm (25.50")
  • Nut width: 42 mm (1.65")
  • 22 Frets
  • Pickups: 3 Roswell STA Alnico 5 single coils
  • 1 x Volume and 2 x tone controls
  • 5-Way switch
  • Single ply white pickguard
  • Synchronised tremolo
  • Kluson style machine heads
  • Chrome hardware
  • Factory strings: .009 - .046
  • Colour: 60's Custom Inca Silver
Available since February 2020
Item number 464719
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Silver
Body Basswood
Top None
Neck Caramelised Canadian Maple
Fretboard Laurel
Frets 22
Scale 648 mm
Pickups SSS
Tremolo Standard
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$135
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A lot of bang for very little buck
Shameless McFly 04.04.2022
I bought this guitar for a partscaster project. I had fender pickups and neck ready to go but when it arrived, it was just so good out of the box that I ended up keeping the original pickups and neck and using the fender ones for another project.

I already knew the colour was something I wanted. The Inca Silver is more a cross between Gold and Silver. It's really stunning and I just had to have it. You'll pay a lot of money for a custom job with this colour as it's so rare.

The Alnico V pickups were clear as a bell, although I did have to adjust the height a little on the pickups to balance the volume and reduce string vibration interference. But that's par for the course on all guitars.

The neck was smooth and way better than what I was expecting. No fret sprout (which I'd ready was sometimes an issue) and the frests were nice and polished (something else I'd read was an issue). I had none of these problems.

The guitar stays in tune very well, after I made some adjustments to the intonation, action and floating trem height & tension.

The only things I will do in future is replace the machines and the tremolo block. I prefer a heavier, brass block for better sustain and the tuners that are in it, I don't think will suffice for that.

I'm thinking now about getting another Harley Benton strat in Lake Placid Blue but then again, this is more than enough to keep me happy.

100%, fully recommended.
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Good guitar for the price
Kikka 08.12.2021
Got it, inspected it, found some imperfections like under the vol/tone buttons there were three wrongfully drilled holes. One little mark in the painting but those were so small details that I don´t care.

Spent a few hours to set up the guitar, fret ends, a couple partly high frets, levelled and polished the frets, applied some lemon oil to the fretboard which seemed a little dry.

The tuners are somewhat stiff, but it may get better when applying some oil in them. No slack though. The nut is cut well, the intonation is ok, action was skyhigh but after the procedures I find the guitar to be very good for the price. I like the sounds of the Roswells, measured the ohms with a multimeter and they seemed to be between 5,60 and a little over 6 ohms.

No need to do anything radical here, I may change the bridge to a steel block one though. I enjoy the guitar now as it is, and this Inca Silver is just gorgeus, as is the darker, roasted looking neck! Good job!
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Complete rookie review
Geordie1 15.05.2021
This is the first guitar I have bought or owned. It is also the first time I have ever played an electric guitar. Please read my comments with this in mind.

A quick warning to those ordering from here to the UK. I paid £168.08 for the guitar, amp, strap and some other items. I expected to pay 20% VAT, about £34. I received an invoice for £65.96 from UPS. £41.80 import VAT, £2.36 duties and a £21.80 brokerage charge. If you’re buying in the UK I would add about 40% to the final price and judge the value from that. I understand this is not the fault of Thomann but thought it was worth mentioning.

The guitar itself, in this rookies opinion, is fantastic quality. The finish is perfect. It feels like a really high quality instrument. I was not expecting the guitar to look and feel this good.

I would love to be able to comment on the sound with some authority but, I haven’t got a clue. I’ve played the guitar a few times and it sounds great to me.

Overall the guitar cost me about £20 more than I thought it would, but to me it still seems good value for the money.
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Second ST-62 this year
Emlyn K Helicopter 13.02.2021
I bought an ST-62CC Charcoal Frost last month (see my review of that for most of what applies here). Obviously I liked it so much I bought another one :)

I intended to fit a Hotrails to the Charcoal ST-62 as I play mainly metal, but liked the stock Roswell single coils so much that it seemed a shame to sacrifice such great clean and crunch tones to whats basically the one-trick-pony of a Hotrails guitar. So, the only thing to do was buy another ST-62 to have one of each. And, while we're at it, one in maple and one in pau ferro. All other aspects (bar the hardware colour) are identical.

The only area in which the Charcoal ST-62 fell down was the sharp fret edges, whereas in the Inca the fretwork is all good. That's probably luck of the draw with such mass-produced, minimally QC'd guitars like these. The fret tops are still scratchy (like the other one and, judging by the reviews on here, most ST-62s), but this goes away after a few hours of play.

Those vintage split tuning pegs look great but I'd get some locking pegs if I was going to take this out live. The trem, despite it being on a budget guitar and sporting the thinnest zinc block I've yet seen on any guitar, sounds excellent and works as well as any non-locking trem I've used. Comparing it to the Wilkinson unit in an older ST-70 I've had, this sounds better and has way more downward travel.

Fit and finish all as good as I've come to expect from Harley Benton. The 'Inca Silver' isn't the bright sterling silver you'd find on a Fender etc, but an almost 'old gold' greenish hue'd metallic grey. My first impression when opening the box was 'oh...' in the way you might react to an 'unexpected but not what you really wanted' Christmas present. It's grown on me, though, and looks really good on the wall-hanger next to its Charcoal Frost brother.

Chrome hardware looks great, as does the plastic stuff. I should mention how good the scratchplate and electronics are, by the way, if only because Harley Benton have really stepped up in this area lately.

So - upgrades: as the other ST-62 has me covered for basic Strat tones, I'm going to use this as my primary metal rhythm guitar for recording. It'll get a set of three rail-type humbuckers, locking tuners and roller string trees, plus some 500k pots. The chunky neck is fast with great note separation and sustain. Its not as solid sounding as the maple 'board, but probably more suitable as an 'upgrade platform'.

As before - I'd recommend these current ST-62s to anyone as they far surpass the price tag. My two have replaced guitars costing 3-5 times as much, they're that good. But.... you'll need to set it up yourself and its a roll of the dice as to whether you get one with frets that don't need additional work.
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