Harley Benton Extreme-84 Progressive Series

My first guitar from thomann and my first harley benton guitar

When the guitar arrived and i unboxed it, i noticed bits and chunks of the nut all over the guitar and i noticed the nut was like kinda rushed when someone tries to filed it. There are some minor inperfection here and there but what could you expect from this price point.

Pro
1.Looks good
2.Good high gain sounding pup
3.Neck feels nice, no sharp edges
4.Its quite light and thin (for me)


Cons
1.The fretbar is a little too rough (bending feels very rough)
2.The fretboard is little dirty and dry (probably normal)
3. Very minor paint issue on both tailpiece and the bridge
4.The tailpiece have a little metal sticking out that is pointy and sharp
5.The pickup are...too distorted
6.The nut was filed down in rushed manner
7. It got neck dive...

Despite the cons of this guitar i still recommend it TO PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO FIX SOME OF THESE CONS definitely not a beginner guitar IMO, personally some of these cons can be easily fix anyway.

I am amazed, to be honest; this is 150 euros and somehow a super dense, mahogany metal guitar with active pickups.
I can only speak for my own experience, but the guitar I received was practically perfect - low action, beautiful finish, just great to play straight from the box!
The guitar gods were smiling on me I guess, I am only using a Blackstar Fly 3 Mini amp, so I cannot really say how well the pickups perform at high volume, but that said, the Fly 3 can kick out a decent sound, and I had no noise issues from the active pickups (which have been reported by some tests last year - (check out on Youtube).
That is impressing me, no noise, clear sound, and a heavy sound on the fat strings. Again, its my perfect metal guitar for 150 euros... There has to be a catch, right?!
Bridge is really nice, nobs are smooth, toggle switch is decent and seems like it will last. No cheap nasty parts, Tuners are all good. I cant find a fault at all.
Its a fantastic guitar and for the price, jesus....
If you like heavy, solid, black, metal guitars, no reason on earth I couldn't recommend this.

So I've ordered this guitar about 10 days ago, and was really looking forward to it. I watched a lot of videos saying it was good and had a great sound etc. When I first got it, the package was damaged, and when I opened it, there was another box (which is good). The guitar itself looked really beautiful and was protected well. But when I first started playing it, the neck was good, but also a bit damaged (not much) and the strings were very low-quality. When I plugged it in, the sound it had was very good. The pick ups are very well made and the overall sound fulfilled my expectations. But when I switched to the neck pick up, IT DID NOT WORK. I suppose it is probably because of bad wiring (not sure, I'm not a professional for electronics) because sometimes it makes a sound and sometimes not, but 95% of the time it's not working. I thought I could improvise and use it as a kill switch which was really cool. Overall I don't recommend this guitar to beginners, but it's actually an okay instrument.

I've been trying to make this guitar playable with my busy schedule, but after over a year, I'm confident that I shouldn't have bought this product.

First, when I received this guitar, the output jack plug socket was missing and I had to find it in the box and screw it in place on my own, and after a year of trying to get it work, I realized the frets are so uneven that I can't fix it on my own and have to pay a luthier about half of what this guitar cost me to fix that. I haven't had time to play this guitar long enough to find it out. I would have returned it from Canada if I knew how bad this guitar is.

Getting a second-hand guitar would've caused me less trouble for sure.

The tone is great considering the price, but I should've paid more attention to people saying HB has no quality control.

I use this for when im in the mood for a good old shred out in the garden to annoy the neighbours at 5am in the morning,

This thing is an absolute beast as i run it through a Line 6 Spider 2 150W On the Insane setting, it the Harmonics you can pull this off with are absolutely insane.

The only thing i can find wrong is the nut, as its plastic ill be replacing that with Tusk or Bone but other than that... I can find nothing wrong with this guitar, A nice thing is that it comes with a 9V Battery in the box so you can plug and shred straight away overall i'd happily recommend this to any aspiring heavy guitarist ^^