Harley Benton TE-62DB CAR

The guitar looks amazing and the build quality and finish were near flawless. Just a couple of tiny blemishes in the finish on the back of the body and that's it. I had tuning issues at the bridge where strings were pinging out of tune while playing. I fitted a bone nut, round barrel string trees and a Wilkinson bridge with compensated brass saddles and the tuning issues were gone. The strings were cutting into little notches in the metal bridge which obviously caused the pinging noises and tuning problems. After these upgrades the guitar plays fine now and i'm happy to have bought it.

Pro's. Out of the box it looked good,the neck feels great,no blemishes.Tuners do an ok job but i wasn't expecting that much from them anyway. Pickups sound surprisingly good so i won't be changing them.Overall a very nice first impression.

Con's. The action was high and alot of fret buzz. Lowering the action made it worse so i checked the truss rod,decent enough relief in the neck. Out with the fret rocker to see how uneven the frets were,not good.Levelled the frets and managed to get 1.75 and the treble end an 2.00 at the 12th fret bass end without too much buzz. Changing the strings every ferrule fell out of it's back pocket.Superglued back in.

To be honest for the money this is a good guitar despite the work i had to do on it. Out of the box it was not gig worthy so think about taking it to a luthier if you're planning on taking it out live. Mine i would descibe as salmon pink if you think it's going to be red. I bought a cheap guitar with low expectations so i feel i got good value for money but wouldn't buy another one.