Harley Benton ST-Junior BK Standard Series

Bought this guitar for my granddaughter. The reviews were pretty good so I thought this should be a good value. Took the guitar out of the box and it seemed all fine. Tuned it up and strummed a chord. Horrible! Perhaps the strings needed a little stretching. Again, tuned it, strummed a chord. Horribly not in tune. Got out my chromatic tuner. Tuned it up and checked the note on the second fret and every string was sharp between 18 and 38 cents. That's a LOT! This is the first time I've ever experienced this bad of fret intonation - or lack of! Perhaps I got a lemon. Or perhaps quality and quality control on Harley Benton has gone down. Based on the guitar I received, I recommend staying away from this one!

I bought this for my three year old as I thought my squier bullet mustang was too heavy for him, well this thing is probably twice the weight! anyway where do harley benton get their wood from? tree stumps left in fields somewhere I think. the frets are the worst I have even seen in my 30 years of playing, the thing is I cannot even be bothered to send it back so I took 80 grit sand paper out of frustration and blasted the neck with no care for finish just to knock the razor sharps sticking out edges off, it worked to a point but still. look I don't want to be negative but I have had three harley bentons in my time and they are lifeless boat anchor pieces of junk.