Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active White

As a poor student bedroom guitarist, this thing is just incredible. For it's price you get so much guitar. I can't even think about dropping 2k€ for a guitar. And if you can't either but want a good looking single cut, this is it.

Pros:
-quality control, despite what some reviews say, is just fine. It's becoming a recurring theme now that I buy a cheap guitar from HB, read 7 different essays about how horrible it looks, how bad the finish is and how bad the quality control is. Then it arrives and is completely okay. People really need to realise that they won't get good stuff for free. The guitar is just fine for a low price.
-the finish is great. For the price anyways. There is one small error where the binding close to the neck set is slightly off, and that's legit it. I'm not sure what are people expecting here. Do not expect Gibson Les Paul Signature Custom line craftsmanship level of finish if you're buying a 230€ guitar, I thought that would be obvious.
-the pickups are fantastic, for the price again. I've seen reviews saying that these are trashy. I guess that if you're expecting fishman fluence, then these are trashy. Maybe don't buy a 230€ guitar if you're expecting 200€ pickups.

Cons:
- Mahagony body! Read it carefuly! This thing is heavy!
- more of a personal opinion but the tuners looks weird on this guitar, the headstock is pretty small and they look oversized
- it shipped with strap locks. Which is cool, but problematic. They are on none of the photos and not listed anywhere. Which means that none of my locking straps can actually take this thing. A bit of a white elephant gift.

I bought this model to use with my
E-Bow, for soloing on my electronic based tracks. This guitar's stark white finish and no-frills black pickups (active), that deliver great musical tone, is a just great.
The guitar's looks compliment the music I am playing, too - "Futuristic/Utilitarian".
Works well in any style of music I compose - Jazz Rock Fusion, Blues and Metal.

So I wanted to have this particular sc guitar shape, and I like the design, after market research, it became an easy decision to buy and check what is HB personally.

It came absolutely unchecked and unprepared - I think these shop signatures mean that the guitar is just lying in the box and it's OK to ship it.

Finish - mostly ok, found a few minor painting imperfections that you only will know about.

Neck fingerboard - 1 seems to be painted in this rosewood color(why not in black lol), 2 all over the wood grain was white dust from the main guitar color (somewhere I found how to clean it, somewhere it's too deep - but it doesn't look bad - just shouldn't be there).
3 Guitar nut pasted in roughly.

Tried to set up strings height and delete buzzing on a few frets by myself - but I gave up and gave the guitar to a technician and he was able to tune it quite well. THIS cost me extra cash and 2 weeks time of additional waiting. Only after it became a playable instrument.

Balance and weight - yes it has kinda neck dive. I found weight comfortable.

Pick-ups - nothing special, sounds ok in all genres.

If the slogan of the company is - "That's fine for the money" they made it.