Harley Benton GS-Travel Mahogany

Jeg købte en GS traveler efter at have set nogle forskellige vidoer på youtube og jeg blev meget positiv overrasket da jeg modtog den den. Den er flot lavet, fejlfri og har en meget smuk finish.
Den er let at spille på og har en meget stor overraskende lyd i forhold til dens størrelse. Den er i øjeblikket min foretrukne guitar og jeg nyeder virkelig at spille på den.
Og så er der der ovenikøbet en guitarbag med i købet - en guitarbag i en høj kvalitet.
Jeg vil anbefale den guitar til alle der har brug for en god guitar.

I've has the HB Travel Mahogany for a few years now, and thought I would chime in with my experience.

Build quality is solid, the tone is quite nice for it's size and price, and I have had no issues with hardware or tuners breaking.

My primary issue was several dead frets on the B and high E string. Despite a high action from the factory, some of the frets were very shoddily done and poorly leveled, resulting in terrible buzzing. It wasn't so bad when I first got it, but it seems as when the wood settled in, the fret issues became very noticeable.

Anyways, I had to put some work into it to make it play properly. Now it plays reasonably fine with an acceptable 2mm action.

All in all, for the price, it's a decent little guitar.

I keep it at the summerhouse, so I only use it when I am there, but for this purpose of occasional playing its just fine.

I bought this to play lounging on my sofa, laying on my bed or outside in the garden.
Out of the box, it's very playable - I haven't changed anything.
The mahogany gives a warmth to the sound, which I like. On a guitar body this small I don't think you'd need the brighter sound of a spruce top - I haven't tried the spruce version though.
Mine has a closely grained mahogany top rather than the more striped look of the one in the pictures - mine looks lovely. It's pretty light weight - ideal for what I bought it for. It sounds and projects much better than you'd think from the size (and price).
If I hadn't bought a CLA-15m soon after I'd be picking this up all the time - as it is, I pick it up a lot.
It has clarity, punch and warmth that are way above it's size and price tag.
Now the big question - is it as good as the Taylor? I have no idea, I've never played one. But it's the wrong question and missing the point; For the likely intended uses of this guitar, it's as good as you need.
Don't get me wrong - it sounds good, it plays well and it's fun to play. But do you really need to pay over £500 for a travel/sofa guitar?
It's hard to justify that unless you're recording with it a lot (to cut through the mix - and this will do the job). Or maybe want a smaller scale instrument for a child/teen. You could buy this and get two custom line acoustics (Harley Bentons) for that money - I know which I'd prefer and that's exactly what I've done.
Tuners - they do their job. People complain about a lot of new guitars not holding their tuning but it's just because they haven't bedded the strings in - (pull them away from the guitar 3-4 times, tune the string back up, do this 3 times for each string - you'll now hold your tuning). Speaking of which - when I tried that on this guitar the peg came off on the lower E string - I'm not bothered; I put it back in and developed a method of pulling the string parallel to the body, which works fine.
Construction is fine - don't expect bone nuts and bridge saddles at this price.
It's very neat and tidy, rather attractive and I love the curve on the back.
I have an old Martin travel guitar - I never play it. This is so much better - it's a proper guitar, just a bit smaller and light weight.
For the price it's a bargain - it even comes with a neat little gig bag.
If you want a full blown acoustic, I'd recommend one of the custom line ones. But I have plenty of guitars and I can't resist this little beauty - it gets far more of my attention than the price would suggest.
You know you want one.