Harley Benton TE-90QM LH Trans Red

Soy un guitarrista novato y esta guitarra me ha dejado muy sorprendido. Las pastillas roswell tienen un sonido muy vintage. Le puedes lijar los lados del mastil un poco ya que están un pelin afilados y listo, ya tienes una guitarra de gama media por menos de 200 euros. Vienen con unas cuerdas D'daddario del 0.10 que vienen perfectas para la guitarra. La única pega que le encuentro es que algunas clavijas están muy duras y otras demasiado blandas, pero no afecta a la afinación.

This guitar has got to be the best value ever made, I own 15 guitars ranging from £350 to £1500 and this has blown me away, there is only room for very slight improvements in quality and design in my opinion, my back ground is in cabinet and joinery work and I have made my own guitars from scratch so I have a good idea of the skill and care involved to produce a guitar.
I can’t praise the factory and it’s work force enough for the work they have done to get a guitar like this down to such a small price.
The guitar arrived set up with a good playing action, far better than my Gibson Les Paul was out of the box, but I like a close action so lowered the top nut slots a fraction, removed some neck relief with the truss rod using the supplied Allen key and lowered the bridge saddles slightly, all quite basic stuff, achievable by most people that are good at using tools.
I managed to get the top e to 0.75 at the 12 ( space from top of fret to underside of the string) and 1mm on the bottom E, this is a very close action and It shows the fret board has been very well machined and levelled as I haven’t had to touch the frets as I have no unacceptable fret buzz.
As for the sound, I like the bridge with the tone full and volume backed off a touch for a highest gain setting it sings and the harmonics ring out with a nice almost vocal character, another favourite is both pickups with the tone completely down, this gives a similar sound to M Ks guitar on “ Money for nothing” when using a overdriven setting on your amp.
One thing I do have a slight issue with is the balance, it is slightly neck heavy but not much, but I like the neck angle somewhere between 30 and 40 degrees so I have moved the bottom strap button to about the opposite point as the jack socket, this has helped quite a bit.
Sorry for banging on about this guitar but it deserves a lot of praise, just buy one and have fun.
Cheers Mick
PS The guitar I received is a mirror image of the right hand version which is much nicer than the images shown here, look at the right hand version for the true story!
August 2019, Thomann have changed the pictures of the right hand version to the lefthand version I mentioned above, not sure why but these are not the same as the guitar I received, (Thomann please comment).

You’ve all seen the pictures. Mine arrived in perfect condition. The fit, and finish are NICE. The darkness of the red hides the beautiful quilted top, a little. The neck feels awesome, but looking real close in bright light you can see some sanding scratches from manufacturing. The fretboard is gorgeous! Abalone dots are a very cool touch. Frets are finished nicely, with NO complaints. I lowered the saddles on the awesome bridge about 1/2 a turn, and the action is low. No fret buzz. Maybe I’ll take it lower. The pickups ARE a little different from what I’m used to, but can come up with several pleasant tones. Overall a VERY nice playing/sounding/looking, well constructed guitar. Glad I bought it! Thanks, Thomann.