Harley Benton TE-62CC CF

83

Electric Guitar

  • Deluxe Series
  • Basswood body
  • Bolt-on neck made of caramel maple with Roseacer skunkstripe
  • Maple fingerboard
  • Neck profile: Modern D
  • Dual action truss rod
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 305 mm
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • 21 Frets
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell AlNiCo 5 TEA-F-CR/TEA-B single coils
  • 1 Volume and 1 tone control
  • 3-Way switch
  • 3-Ply mint green pickguard
  • Hardtail bridge
  • Kluson style tuners
  • Deluxe hardware
  • Factory strings : D'Addarío EXL110 .010 - .046 (art. 104555)
  • Colour: Charcoal Frost
Available since December 2021
Item number 502846
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Charcoal Frost
Pickups SS
Fretboard Caramelized Canadian Maple
Tremolo None
Body Basswood
Top None
Neck Caramelized Canadian Maple
Frets 21
Scale 648 mm
Incl. Case No
Incl. Bag No
B-Stock from $113 available
$135
The shipping costs are calculated on the checkout page.
In stock
In stock

This product is in stock and can be shipped immediately.

Standard Delivery Times
1

A throwback to a classic!

Harley Benton TE-62 Tele Style electric guitar

The T-Style guitar has been a staple of the popular music scene for ages. This meat-and-potatoes design has been serving well across genres for decades, well into the current day. With the Harley Benton TE-62CC, you can now get a classic model at a pretty low cost! The Harley Benton TE-62CC is inspired by the vibe of those original sought-after instruments, with features that will also appeal to the modern player. As always, Harley Benton has managed to make a guitar with quality features at a price that is hard to beat.

Harley Benton guitar Tele-Style single coil Pickups

Vintage style with modern playability

The Harley Benton TE-62CC CF is a traditional T-Style bolt-on neck guitar, with a few modern appointments to bring it into the 21st century. It has a basswood body, which you can get in four exciting finishes. This model features the custom colour Charcoal Frost. This is paired with a roasted maple neck and fingerboard, with 21 frets. A Roseacer ‘skunk stripe ‘on the back of the neck and the three barrel-saddles complete the vintage look. And those Roswell AlNiCo 5 pickups are sure to get you close to those classic tones. Updates for the modern player include a Modern D neck profile, which isn’t slim, but should be comfortable in the hand without ever getting the way of playing, and a dual-action truss rod. It also ships with high-quality D‘Addario EXL110 010 - 046 gauge strings.

Harley Benton TE-62CC back with bolt-on roasted maple neck

The TE-62CC has you covered

The Harley Benton TE-62CC should satisfy all your T-Style needs. All the way from country twang to Chicago blues, through to hard rock, the TE-62CC will have you covered. And at a price so competitive, you might think it was aimed at beginners. But don’t be fooled by the price, many advanced players and tinkerers alike have become fans of the brand, who, with a few upgrades, are able to use their Harley Benton guitars as their main instruments, or as a reliable backup. If you’re looking for a modern guitar with all the bells and whistles, you’re looking in the wrong place. The TE-62CC is strictly a barebones instrument that pays homage to the early solidbody guitars of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

Harley Benton TE-62 Kopfplatte

About Harley Benton

Since 1998, the Harley Benton brand has been catering for the needs of numerous guitarists and bassists. In addition to an extensive range of stringed instruments, Thomann's house brand also offers a wide choice of amplifiers, speakers, effect pedals, and other accessories. In total, the range includes over 1,500 products. Built by established names in the industry, all Harley Benton products combine quality and reliability at attractive and affordable prices. The continuous expansion of the range ensures that Harley Benton always provides new, exciting, and innovative products that keep players perfectly in tune with the musical world, day after day.

A workhorse - on stage and in the home studio

T-Style instruments often get associated with country music, because of their distinctive ‘twangy’ tones. The traditional combination of bolt-on maple necks with single coil pickups provides a ‘snappy’ response that has been a hallmark of country and western music. But this style of guitar has not only been popular among Nashville players, but players of all styles from jazz to rock. The choice of tonewoods married to the Roswell AlNiCo V single coil pickups will give players a range of tones to play with, whether it’s hot smoking leads or crisp funky rhythms. Working musicians will find it to be a reliable workhorse or backup guitar, while beginners will find it a good way of dipping their toes in the electric guitar realm.

Im Detail erklärt

83 Customer ratings

4.6 / 5

You have to be logged in to rate products.

Note: To prevent ratings from being based on hearsay, smattering or surreptitious advertising we only allow ratings from real users on our website, who have bought the equipment from us.

After logging in you will also find all items you can rate under rate products in the customer centre.

features

sound

quality

61 Reviews

A
One of the best T-style guitars out there, irrespective of price
Anthony_79 22.12.2021
Under normal (or other) circumstances, I shouldn't have bought a TE-62, because I only got my TE-52 earlier this year. But the TE-52 is rather heavy to be the most versatile of my guitars, and when the TE-62 appeared, I was so tempted, I had to give in. Life is short, anyway, we might as well enjoy it.

Thanks to Thomann and UPS, the guitar arrived two days earlier than expected, amid the holiday season. No damages to the package or the guitar whatsoever.

As far as the appearance of the guitar is concerned, it is very well finished and I love the colour a lot, a very nice contrast between the dark metallic grey of the body, the mint green pickguard and the caramelised neck. Earlier on the day I took delivery, I visited my local big F dealer, to try out an amp and check out whatever T-style guitars they had. The TE 62 looks and feels much more expensive than some of the F models I saw that day, and I saw many of them.

The only thing that felt a little cheap was the tip of the tuners, somehow felt very plasticky, compared to other Harley Benton guitars I have tried (or indeed my TE-52). Tuners work well though (well, at least for as long as I have played the guitar). Nut is plastic but seems well cut. I replaced the strings immediately because they were corroded but I would do that anyway to any new guitar. Neck relief was spot on, so I just had to lower the saddles a bit to get my desired low action, I had the TE-52 as a benchmark for my measurements, so it was a piece of cake.

As for playability, the neck feels great, not too thin, not to chunky, slightly slimmer than the TE-52 - I have gotten used to both so no concerns, even for my not so big hands.

Pickups sound slightly different from those on the TE-52 (they are supposed to be different models). I am happy with them (nothing very exciting but they are good, no plans on changing them anytime soon) and the blend in the middle position is one of the best I have heard from a T style guitar. Perhaps I need to do some fiddling with the pickup height or my amp to get the best out of them. They are good though, no worries, and they sound better than any ceramic out there (my personal taste, of course).

So, in summary, for me this is the best HB traditional T-style guitar on offer, because it is addressing those very few drawbacks of the TE-52 (mostly the weight). And with the choice in available colours, I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes one of Thomann's best selling models. It is certainly on the same level as the classic vibe series of another manufacturer, as well as some F T-style models.

Do get this as a gift to yourself, you deserve it.
features
sound
quality
27
0
Report

Report

U
Gorgeous Guitar
Uh_Oh 05.08.2023
I have been scouring the Harley Bentons on Thomann for the last few months and I had the biggest itch to grab a new guitar. I have had a Yamaha Pacifica since 1999 ish (my first guitar) and it still works lovely but I have always desired to own a Telecaster style guitar - I did have a Mexican Strat and Epiphone SG in the past too, but did not get on with those sorts of guitars.

I was eyeing up the HB-35Plus and the SC550-IIs but then I had an advert pop up on Facebook for a Harley Benton sale and so I clicked it and saw this Guitar in the list. Seeing as I have always loved the Tele look and I was already considering to buy the North American style one, I decided to do some youtube research on this guitar and I watched a bunch of videos of people being pretty honest about Harley Benton and this guitar.

For £98 I finally bit and decided to order it. It arrived this morning and was really well packed. Guitar wrapped in bubble wrap, then in its guitar box with polystyrene to hold it in place and then inside a huge box filled with other packing.

The first thing that has struck is how lovely the fretboard is. Really nice caramel color and you can see the grain all in the headstock - mine is darker than the photo appears on the site, and I really like the font they have used for the HB logo. Some people have mentioned sharp frets and dodgy tuners in their reviews but my Guitar was almost in tune straight out of the box and there isn't a single sharp fret anywhere and I can't find any dead notes. Intonation was perfect too straight away. Body of guitar is a nice grey colour, pretty much spot on to the sites photo - I cannot see any chips or defects on the paintwork.

I would have preferred a white pickguard, as the lime almost appears slightly luminous on mine which is strange to look at, but might just be my dodgy eyes, but it definitely seemed much lighter on the sites photo.

Weight is nice and comfortable, definitely on par with my Yamaha so no issues there. Electronics all working fine with noticeable differences between the pickup changes, the switch feels sturdy and not cheap and the volume/tone knobs look cool and work well.

I haven't mucked about with the pickup height yet but I might have a tweak, it does sound nice though and definitely has the twang that I saw mentioned on youtube and was hoping for.

I also cannot see any corrosion or anything on my strings which is nice, so I put on some fast fret and it is a lovely comfortable guitar to play. Really impressed overall! Great service from Thomanns, highly recommend them and this guitar.
features
sound
quality
2
0
Report

Report

SM
How do you do it?
Shawn M. 30.03.2022
Have never tried Bentons before. On a bipolar impulse bought 3 different models

TE-62CC
DC-DLX Gotoh
SC-Custom Plus EMG FR

I have no words to describe.. I stay in Malaysia.. Had requested someone from the team to sign said guitars.

The guitars are made in Indonesia.. But were sent from Germany.. They came all signed as requested.. The tele and sg came IN TUNE!! (can you imagine that?) they were setup to perfection.. The floyd I preferred a little lower action (but that's just personal taste)

Finish were all tasteful.. No feet buzz.. I mean seriously.. How do you guys do it?

I own about 20 guitars in total..from fenders to gibsons to ibanez to Tokai and of a few corts.. Some of which are 3 times the price of the most expensive Benton I bought..

I'll go as far to say that the only thing you may need to change (in the future) are the pick ups (you need to do that with all guitars anyway) ..

Everything else is solid as an ox. The Bentons are as good.. And in some cases even better then the guitars they are trying to (copy sounds like a bad word.. Maybe the guitars that were inspired by).

I think anyone who is thinking of buying a cort or squire or epiphone or whatever brand that's sub of the original American counterpart should try a benton.. Trust me.. They will shock you.

Don't even get me started on the price.. Like seriously man.. How do you guys do it.

Nothing else to add.. Continue with the great job, production and admin team. You guys rock!
features
sound
quality
13
2
Report

Report

t
Completely blown away.
tixio 11.08.2023
I got this guitar for a little over 110 euro on sale, and let me tell you, it feels at least 5x dearer. The pickups sound good, the harware is solid, the neck feels amazing, there is no fret sprout whatsoever, setup was spot on right off the bat. What else can I say, I'm completely sold on Harley Benton.
features
sound
quality
0
0
Report

Report