Harley Benton HP-42 Signature TT Roasted

This guitar looks fantastic and has incredible specifications. My favorite features are the neck and the P90. This is the first guitar I have owned with a roasted maple neck and I was really surprised by how slick it feels.

Unfortunately, I had issues with both the nut and the saddles. The original nut had a double trough in the G string slot that would cause the string to jump between troughs when bending the string which produced a horrible sound. In addition, the action at the nut was twice as high as your typical spec which caused intonation issues at the first three frets. To make matters worse, I had to replace the nut twice because I'm not exactly a luthier. I finally got the nut sorted out and realized I had a bad sitar sound coming from several strings. I added a graphtec string tree on the D and G strings because there was literally no break angle between the nut and tuners. The B string was a different issue. The sitar sound on the B string was caused by metal burrs on the saddle just behind the string break point.

After several months of fighting, It works!