Harley Benton HB-35Plus Lemon

Die Gitarre ist gut gemacht, aber ich habe keinen Spaß daran, sie zu spielen, die Saiten sind die billigsten, von denen die Finger schwärzen, der Abstand von den Saiten zum Griffbrett würde ich gerne kleiner sein. Pickups Klang nicht erfreut, mittelmäßige chinesische Replik, für das Debuggen von dem verlangen die Dienste des Meisters und Ersatz-Coil-Pickups. Die Tatsache, dass das Werkzeug in China hergestellt wird, wurde leider nicht auf der Website angegeben. War es sinnvoll, ein Instrument mit Lieferung an die Grenze zu China in Europa zu kaufen? Eine Lieferung
mit der Zollabfertigung habe es fast 100 Euro gekostet. Ich bin mit dem Kauf unzufrieden, ich habe mehr erwartet, ich wollte das Instrument der europäischen Qualität fühlen, die asiatischen sind satt und die chinesische Qualität ist nicht die beste. Wenn Sie weitere 200-300 Euro in diese Gitarre investieren, wird sie wahrscheinlich klingen, aber in der Abflussversion erinnert sie an alte sowjetische halbakustische Gitarren wie "Maria". Ich empfehle dieses Produkt nicht zum Kauf.

This is an amazingly-well-done guitar at this price-point. Nice finish, though the photoflame on the top is a bit faint.

My issue with this guitar is the complete lack of output from the neck pickup. Since I live in the States, returning the guitar is a non-starter. I will repair the problem myself, but I recently had cataract surgery, so I'm still adjusting for my new scope of vision.

If future purchasers of ANY guitar need the heads-up, if your guitar was QC'd by Thomann inspector 158, go over the guitar with a fine-toothed comb. The lack of output from a pickup should have been an immediate rejection by even the least-capable QC inspector. In this, 158 failed miserably.

If I do order another guitar (and the HB CST-24T P-90 looks VERY interesting), I will request that the guitar be inspected by anyone other than 158.

The guitar is nice to look at. It is not too heavy, and, of course, the ergonomics are the same as a 335. Unfortunately, the quality control is terrible. Not cosmetically. It doesn't have runs or stains. But the guitar came with the neck pickup ring mounted backwards, a defective 3-way switch, and absolutely terrible set up. I had to recut the nut; level, re-crown, and polish the frets; adjust the truss rod; set the action; and set the intonation.

On the positive side, Thomann was quick to offer a return when I told them the 3-way switch didn't work. In the end, I swapped it out myself. No sense in waiting a couple of months and having the guitar shipped across Europe twice for a simple fix. I wish they had offered to have a local tech do the repair, but a no questions asked return was nice.

I previously purchased a Harley Benton SC-450 from Thomann and whilst it was not without its flaws such as very tarnished strings overall I was very happy with it so I had no hesitation about buying the Hollow body HB 35.

Sadly for me, the HB35 was of much poorer quality than the SC. Once again, the supplied strings were below par and tarnished but worse was the quality of the frets. The frets were extremely badly tarnished and it took me a good hour of careful and painstaking work to rip the strings off and buff the frets with ultra fine emery paper.

I do not think this guitar was quality inspected by Thomann before shipping as both of these flaws would have been pretty obvious, so it has left a little doubt in my mind over trusting Thomann and Harley Benton again.

So overall, I would say that buying this guitar may be somewhat of a gamble. The value for money cannot be questioned but you may need to put in some effort and expense if the quality control does not improve.

Arrived in good order; well packaged and prompt. Needed a fair bit of work initially, although I expected this after reading other reviews.

Needed a restring, and the frets were scratchy and tarnished; neck also needed a few goes with oil to 'rehydrate' the wood.

Finish on the body is poor: flecks of other paint work all over the back and black trim is bleeding into the main body itself; can't expect much for that price though.

Pick-ups are ok but will be replaced with better; also swapped out the tuning pegs which were just awful. Upgraded saddle and tailpiece will be on the shopping list too.

All in all, it's a decent of guitar for that price, and if you are happy to use it as a project; or have some half decent spare parts lying around it will upgrade nicely. Shame about the paint job, but hey, you get what you pay for.