Harley Benton Fusion-T HH Roasted FNT

Varit sugen på en gitarr med hals med värmebehandlad lönn, när denna kom slog jag till. Och jag har inte blivit besviken!

Det första intrycket och helheten andas kvalitet, den känns och ser ut ännu bättre än mina högt ställda förväntningar. Den spelar hur bra som helst direkt ur kartongen. Intonering är bra, stränghöjd ok, banden är jämna och avrundade, översadeln välgjord, halsen rak och fin, det känns att man har gett dessa gitarrer lite extra uppmärksamhet. Hårdvara som stämskruvar och stall ger väldigt bra känsla och precision.

När man pluggar in den och börjar spela fortsätter jag att imponeras, väldigt många, olika, bra och användbara ljud strömmar ut ur högtalarna. Elektroniken är väl fungerande, volymkontrollen behåller diskanten när man vrider ner vilket är ovanligt i denna prisklass, till och med om man splittar mickarna vilket är ännu mer ovanligt!

Halsen känns helt underbar att spela på, bland det bästa jag någonsin provat.

De brister jag upplevt är att utgångsjacket inte satt fast, muttern trillade loss direkt. Stallet gick inte att svaja uppåt på grund av att fjädrarna tog stopp, löst genom att ta bort en av dom och spänna de övriga.

Mickarna är helt ok och kommer att få sitta kvar nu men bland de enda punkter där jag känner att det finns utrymme att förbättra i framtiden, och den här är definitivt värd att satsa på!

I have one word to describe this guitar;

"Gobsmacked."

Sure, there are some imperfections in the finish and it had one ding on the headstock; but that's it... The frets, the tuning stability, the floating tremolo... It came better setup than any guitar that I've had that costs A LOT more than this. Even the darn frets came perfectly filled, even had 2k+ guitars come with worse frets.

I have to check my bank account daily to convice myself that it only cost this little.

Perfection guys!

I just bought one after reading some rave reviews. Guys, you must have gotten a completely different guitar. Yes, it's well designed, has some great features (Wilkinson trem, staggered locking tuners, rose maple neck) and looks amazing from a distance. But, the quality control at the HB factory must be really lax. So some problems I ran into: 1) Inconsistency in polishing the neck, even one dent. 2) Frets very poorly polished, squeaky sounds when bending with dry sound. 3) Neck pickup screws drilled at an angle so that the pickup is tilted with the front side down. 4) No springs on the pickup screws. 5) Spoke wheel for trussrod adjustment has smaller holes than the rod provided with guitar. 6) The neck is screwed on slightly with an offset so that there is a small gap between it and the body and the strings do not go exactly over the screws of the pickups. 7) Since I was not able to set the string action (there was buzzing almost everywhere with the factory setup), I removed the strings and checked the fretwork. One small dent on the 14th fret and a bigger, really ugly one, on the 16th fret. A simple rocker test revealed that the fret leveling was sloppy or not done at all. So the main pros for the purchase, stainless steel frets, turned into a nightmare, because leveling this fret wave will be very difficult.
I bought a cheap travel guitar from Harley Benton a long time ago and was pleasantly surprised by the build quality and good setup. I really didn't expect so many problems from instruments from the opposite end of the price spectrum.

I was the fortunate owner of 4 Harley Benton Tele Style guitars.
The TE52 NA, TE90QM and the Fusion T HH EB OCT
I love each one of them as, collectively, they provide me with a great pallet of sounds.
I thought that would be enough but I kept going back to the Fusion T Roasted FNT, watching reviews on youtube and deliberating on whether I actually really needed this guitar, as it was very similar, in spec, to my existing Fusion T.
I just loved the look of the neck though and the flame top.
I took the plunge on Friday and ordered one. It had to happen lol
I was definitely influenced by the price point, thinking well at not much more than £300, I had very little to loose.
It arrived today and I am absolutely smitten already.
The guitar is a seriously great instrument and, in my opinion, as good a guitar as I have ever played, irrespective of its price.
The roasted maple neck is outstanding and the stainless steel frets, Graph Tech Tusq Nut and Locking Tuners make it a superb playing experience.
The Wilkinson Trem is excellent. The pots and switch feel great and, regardless of what some people say, the Roswell Humbuckers are wonderful. ( I don't know what the detractors are listening to them through but plugged into my Bugerra V22 Infinium they sing beautifully )
Because of the staggered locking tuners, I don't see the need for the two string trees ( but nice to see they are roller trees ... although a single Graph Tech tree would have been better, in my opinion - although this isn't really a quibble, rather a suggestion ) Also, I will be taking one spring out of the Wilkinson Trem ( another personal preference thing ) - other than that, I wouldn't change a thing .
I had to laugh when I took the guitar out of its box, strummed it and it was bang in tune, after a journey from Germany to Nottinghamshire England ? ... amazing ! ... and the dispatch and delivery were very speedy too.
So if you are considering buying a T style guitar with twin Humbuckers and you have a thousand pound budget, do yourself a favour : buy one of these and treat the wife to a new fur coat ! She will love you for it, you won't get nagged and you will have a guitar worth much more than its price point.